Virginia · Nonprofit
COMMON SENSE AMERICA INC
COMMON SENSE AMERICA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,838,000 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR AMERICAN IDEAS ($1,900,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $272k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $51k
What Common Sense America Inc does
Mission
Common Sense America's mission to receive and spend funds to educate the public on issues that affect citizens' lives and well-being and their relationship to public policies espoused by and enacted by elected officials.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
1.Launched the national organization. Began building a nationwide network of support. 2.Promoted common sense ideas and solutions to hundreds of thousands of people across the country. 3.Supported like-minded organizations pushing for common sense solutions across the country.
$473,834 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $473,834.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $24k to $306k (+1164%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $1.9M → $755k.
From the IRS filings of COMMON SENSE AMERICA 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 SENSE AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SENSE AMERICA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 67% — diversifying over time.
“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
67% of COMMON SENSE AMERICA INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like COMMON SENSE AMERICA 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMON SENSE AMERICA 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 SENSE AMERICA INC?
- COMMON SENSE AMERICA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,838,000 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR AMERICAN IDEAS ($1,900,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMON SENSE AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $2,838,000 in grants to COMMON SENSE AMERICA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMON SENSE AMERICA INC?
- CENTER FOR AMERICAN IDEAS is the largest funder on record, with $1,900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMON SENSE AMERICA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), 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