Tennessee · Nonprofit
COMMON VOICES
COMMON VOICES (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,686 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($54,374). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $385k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $86k
- Net assets
- $355k
What Common Voices does
Mission
Common Voices is an advocates coalition of burn survivors and people who have lost loved ones in fires. The mission of the organization is to create a fire safe America. The advocates vision is that by turning their tragedies into advocacy lives can be saved. The advocates complete the mission and vision by sharing their stories creating resources that tell their stories and by involvement with fire departments at the local state and national level.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
expanded on page
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Our largest program service for 2023 was to find ways to share the PSAs created in 2022. We accomplished this with an improved website that allows for easy downloads of the content.
$57,074 spent30% of program spendingBeing able to cover the advocates travel when they are asked to speak has always been one of our main attributes. Local fire departments typically dont have the money to cover travel costs and Common Voices is happy to be able to do that.
$22,768 spent12% of program spendingSocial media outreach is our third top program service area. Being able to share links to stories that help underscore fire safety messages and creation of new content on these platforms is key to spreading the word about fire safety and fire sprinklers.
$12,000 spent6% of program spendingRemaining expenses that include liaison to advocate and media outreach.
$100,104 spent52% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $191,946.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $142k to $355k (+150%).
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. 2 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Kevin Fee
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $300 → $52k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $715k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Fire Sprinkler Industry Promotion Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money COMMON VOICES raised.
From the IRS filings of COMMON VOICES’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 VOICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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 VOICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 96% · 2023 80% — 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
71% of COMMON VOICES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like COMMON VOICES
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMON VOICES: 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 VOICES?
- COMMON VOICES (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,686 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($54,374). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMON VOICES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $85,686 in grants to COMMON VOICES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMON VOICES?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $54,374 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMON VOICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing