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Common Wealth Associates Inc

Common Wealth Associates Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,550,962 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($727,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.2M
Funders on record
31
Grants received
$3.6M
Net assets
$1.6M
23/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 64%
01What it does

What Common Wealth Associates Inc does

Mission

To equip low-income wage earners with increased financial capability so they can attain financial stability and decrease reliance on charitable assistance. This is achieved through a trauma-informed approach including education, personalized counseling, access to banking, and no-interest loans.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide emergency short-term, unsecured low-interest loans to clients who have high barriers to mainstream financial services, and provide banking or rebanking with partner financial institutions.

    $581,648 spent
    52% of program spending
  2. VITA Latino exists to build relationships within the Latinx community, laying foundations which lead to trust-based counseling and easier access to reliable credit union services. VITA Latino has to date served 3,102 individuals with 1,549 filings accounting for $2,150,508 in refunds, and $479,050 in tax preparation savings. It has also delivered $784,176 in federal and state income taxes paid.

    $299,146 spent
    27% of program spending
  3. Financial literacy education, including workshops and certified one-to-one credit counseling focused on creating and reviewing a balanced spending plan, a deep dive into credit reports, identifying strategic pay-off of debt items, recognizing the high cost of predatory financial products, and rebanking at non-predatory financial institutions.

    $230,888 spent
    21% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,111,682.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($336k) Expenses 100 ($274k) Net assets 100 ($276k)2019 Revenue 115 ($387k) Expenses 127 ($348k) Net assets 119 ($328k)2020 Revenue 363 ($1.2M) Expenses 245 ($672k) Net assets 318 ($876k)2021 Revenue 296 ($995k) Expenses 273 ($748k) Net assets 408 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 363 ($1.2M) Expenses 359 ($985k) Net assets 492 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 344 ($1.2M) Expenses 459 ($1.3M) Net assets 454 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 577 ($1.9M) Expenses 478 ($1.3M) Net assets 682 ($1.9M)2025 Revenue 355 ($1.2M) Expenses 530 ($1.5M) Net assets 587 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (355)Expenses (530)Net assets (587)Peer revenue range

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 $1.3M to $1.9M (+51%).

$276k
$335k
$958k
$1.1M
$1.4M
$1.3M
$1.9M
$1.6M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of Common Wealth Associates Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$62k
’18
$39k
’19
$548k
’20
$248k
’21
$233k
’22
−$105k
’23
$627k
’24
−$262k
’25
8.0
months of
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

Kayla Taylor

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed109111114131414
Joined·+0+5+0+4+2+4+5
No longer listed·1301335
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $65k → $733k.

11 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 Wealth Associates Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. 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 Wealth Associates Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

50% 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 Wealth Associates Inc.

20%
largest funder
48%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 36% · 2019 23% · 2020 30% · 2021 23% · 2022 26% · 2023 23% — 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.

How long its funders stay

53% of Common Wealth Associates Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

77% of Common Wealth Associates Inc's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

MN
NY
IA
OH
NJ
NC
DC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Common Wealth Associates Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−22% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding Common Wealth Associates Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.

Federal$20k
grants $20kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of the Treasury$20k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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In North Carolina

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 12%Fundraising 11%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

88%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

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Questions and answers

Who funds Common Wealth Associates Inc?
Common Wealth Associates Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,550,962 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($727,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Common Wealth Associates Inc have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $3,550,962 in grants to Common Wealth Associates Inc, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Common Wealth Associates Inc?
FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $727,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Common Wealth Associates Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 31 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