Connecticut · Nonprofit
COMMONS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
COMMONS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being BOWDOIN APARTMENTS CORPORATION ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COMMONS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,862 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,862 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporationshared fundersportfolio match
- Charlesbank Homesshared funders
- Community Lift Corpportfolio match
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 97% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of COMMONS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $30k → $25k.
From the IRS filings of COMMONS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’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
COMMONS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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 COMMONS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 67% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
COMMONS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 2 states in all.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporationshared fundersportfolio matchDC · backs 4 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Charlesbank Homesshared fundersMA · backs 9 organizations that share your funders
- Community Lift Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Homebase Cincinnatiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Enterprise Community Partners Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Roc USA LLCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grounded Solutions Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Development Advocates of Detroitportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Community Development Finance Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Housing Partnership Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Enterprise Community Loan Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Housing Assistance Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding COMMONS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300k on record.
- State Aid Grants$300k
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.
Organizations like COMMONS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMONS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMONS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- COMMONS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being BOWDOIN APARTMENTS CORPORATION ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMONS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $55,000 in grants to COMMONS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMONS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- BOWDOIN APARTMENTS CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMONS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing