Texas · Nonprofit
COMMONS INTERNATIONAL
COMMONS INTERNATIONAL (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,804 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($31,194). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $77k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $81k
- Net assets
- $40k
What Commons International does
Mission
The Organization is organized for exclusively religious, charitable, educational and scientific purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue Law, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under said Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Specifically, the Organization will provide charitable giving to other non-profits.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
2025 Fiscal Year Report to Our Fiscal Sponsor. 2025 was a big year for the Commons. More than 100,000 people came through these doors. We hosted over 800 events - thats classes, performances, dances, celebrations, and business meetings happening every day. We supported over 100 leaders working across 33 ventures. Our partners were able to accomplish so much this year, like Ribbo bringing the first coffee roaster to Northern Uganda, Gender Tech opening a community computer lab, and Watwero dance hosted their own theatre festival featuring local artists. We welcomed 11 new partners through the launch of our very own Venture Leadership Class. We are so excited to welcome partners like Stress Clinic, working to combat the stigma around mental health, River Poultry, training smallholder farmers on successful poultry rearing, and Ajura Fashions, creating eco-friendly african fabrics. We are so happy to welcome them to our community. The Commons has become a place where ideas turn into real ventures that are reshaping this community.
$0 spentof which $90,000 as grants
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $66k to $166k (+153%).
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 COMMONS INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $39k → $10k.
4 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 COMMONS INTERNATIONAL’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 INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 38% · 2022 51% · 2023 98% — 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
100% of COMMONS INTERNATIONAL'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
COMMONS INTERNATIONAL's revenue fell 42% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like COMMONS INTERNATIONAL
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMONS INTERNATIONAL: 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 COMMONS INTERNATIONAL?
- COMMONS INTERNATIONAL (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,804 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($31,194). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMONS INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $80,804 in grants to COMMONS INTERNATIONAL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMONS INTERNATIONAL?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $31,194 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMONS INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2021–2025), 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