Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
COMMONS IMPACT FOUNDATION
COMMONS IMPACT FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,000 to it, the largest being LEONARD & HILDA KAPLAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COMMONS IMPACT FOUNDATION's revenue fell 94% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,170 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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.
- The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundationshared funders
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio match
- Planet Womenportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $50k → $45k.
From the IRS filings of COMMONS IMPACT FOUNDATION’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 IMPACT FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 50% · 2022 56% — 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 IMPACT FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 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.
- The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundationshared fundersOH · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Planet Womenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard C Goldstein Private Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Abington Foundationshared fundersOH · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
- Lippincott Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Climate Emergency Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Future of Life Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Global Human Rights Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Avatar Alliance Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alex C Walker Educational & Charitableportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dwss Incportfolio 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.
Organizations like COMMONS IMPACT FOUNDATION
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 Washington, D.C.
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 COMMONS IMPACT FOUNDATION: 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 IMPACT FOUNDATION?
- COMMONS IMPACT FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,000 to it, the largest being LEONARD & HILDA KAPLAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMONS IMPACT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $95,000 in grants to COMMONS IMPACT FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMONS IMPACT FOUNDATION?
- LEONARD & HILDA KAPLAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMONS IMPACT FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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