Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
COMMONFOOD INC
COMMONFOOD INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,477 to it, the largest being CENTRE FOUNDATION INC ($101,736). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $169k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $122k
- Net assets
- $316k
What Commonfood Inc does
Mission
CommonFood provides approximately 85 pounds of nutritional food to approx 200 families on the third Saturday of each month in the Centre County region of Pa. We continue our non-profit as 100% volunteer so all donations go towards the purchase and distribution of the food. In 2025 CommonFood "Rescued" 165,513 lbs of food that would have been thrown into the landfill. On July 30, 2025 CommonFood purchased a building to pack food for distribution.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
CommonFood provided approximately 85 pounds of nutritional food to approx 200 families on the third Saturday of each month in the Centre County region of Pa. We currently have a waiting list that continually averages 30-40 families. We are 100% volunteer so all donations go towards the purchase and distribution of the food. In 2025 CommonFood picked up over 165,000 pounds of "rescue food" that would have been disposed of in a landfill. We did make the puchase of a building to call our own, July 30, 2025! The trailer grant from PA was just approved which will be included on next years filing. After a year of waiting, now we'll wait as the trailer needs to be manufactured.
$67,573 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $67,573.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $215k to $416k (+94%).
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 COMMONFOOD INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $15k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 COMMONFOOD 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
COMMONFOOD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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 COMMONFOOD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 76% · 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
90% of COMMONFOOD INC'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 $12k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110k 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.
Against its field
COMMONFOOD INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMONFOOD 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMONFOOD 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 COMMONFOOD INC?
- COMMONFOOD INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,477 to it, the largest being CENTRE FOUNDATION INC ($101,736). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMONFOOD INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $122,477 in grants to COMMONFOOD INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMONFOOD INC?
- CENTRE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $101,736 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMONFOOD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2020–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing