Oregon · Nonprofit
COMMON SENSE OF OREGON INCORPORATED
COMMON SENSE OF OREGON INCORPORATED (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $302,325 to it, the largest being COMMON SENSE FOR OREGON FOUNDATION ($282,325). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $105k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $302k
- Net assets
- $-70672
What Common Sense of Oregon Incorporated does
Mission
Promotion of social welfare in the area of government affairs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Activites in educational, legislative, political and judicial realms to advocate and promote policies and procedures which will provide for good government, with reasonable taxes and fair regulation to the extent permitted by the code. This does not include advocacy for or against a political party or candidate. Legislatvie lobbying or advocacy is included in the promotion of social welfare so long as it is conducted within the restrictions of the code.
$86,579 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $86,579.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3k to $335 (−89%).
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.
100% of COMMON SENSE OF OREGON INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $20k → $78k.
From the IRS filings of COMMON SENSE OF OREGON INCORPORATED’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 OF OREGON INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 OF OREGON INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of COMMON SENSE OF OREGON INCORPORATED's grant income comes from Oregon 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.
Against its field
COMMON SENSE OF OREGON INCORPORATED's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMON SENSE OF OREGON INCORPORATED
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMON SENSE OF OREGON INCORPORATED: 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 OF OREGON INCORPORATED?
- COMMON SENSE OF OREGON INCORPORATED (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $302,325 to it, the largest being COMMON SENSE FOR OREGON FOUNDATION ($282,325). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMON SENSE OF OREGON INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $302,325 in grants to COMMON SENSE OF OREGON INCORPORATED, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMON SENSE OF OREGON INCORPORATED?
- COMMON SENSE FOR OREGON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $282,325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMON SENSE OF OREGON INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2 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