Illinois · Nonprofit
COMMON PLACE INC
COMMON PLACE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,060 to it, the largest being DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ($32,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $0
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $79k
- Net assets
- $141k
What Common Place Inc does
Mission
The mission of common place is to strive to eliminate root causes of poverty and other social injustices, recognizing the dignity and self-worth of every individual.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On january 1, 2020, neighborhood house acquired common place. After months of discussions, meetings, and extensive collaborative efforts from the boards of both neighborhood house and common place, it was agreed this acquisition would be in the best interest of the community and people served by both organizations. Only separated by 0.5 miles, neighborhood house and common place already had strategic partnerships in place and were collaborating on several existing programs. Through economies of scale, the available resources have been utilized to make a more significant impact for the people we serve, instead of wrapped up in the maintenance and security of two buildings. By providing all programs in the same location, it was more efficient and convenient for clients who have transportation barriers. All common place programs have been folded under the neighborhood house umbrella.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $955k to $141k (−85%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 14% · 2019 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of COMMON PLACE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Julie Bonar
President/CEO
Board chair
Steve Gatton
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $24k → $10.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of COMMON PLACE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
COMMON PLACE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund COMMON PLACE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 100% · 2019 54% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
COMMON PLACE INC draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
COMMON PLACE INC is better cushioned than half of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like COMMON PLACE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
7%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Neighborhood House Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMON PLACE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMON PLACE INC?
- COMMON PLACE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,060 to it, the largest being DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ($32,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMON PLACE INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $79,060 in grants to COMMON PLACE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMON PLACE INC?
- DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $32,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMON PLACE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing