Illinois · Nonprofit
COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION COLLECTIVE
COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION COLLECTIVE (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,980 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($82,480). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $199k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $93k
- Net assets
- $29k
What Commonwealth Foundation Collective does
Mission
Educational NPO - Teen Creative Workforce Program
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Aspire Grant
$15,000 spentof which $19,000 as grants21% of program spendingColeman Fund - J Coleman - 10000 - A Coleman - 25000
$25,400 spentof which $35,000 as grants36% of program spendingSNHU Grant
$30,000 spentof which $30,000 as grants43% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $70,400.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5k to $29k (+503%).
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 COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION COLLECTIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
A Coleman
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $36k → $8k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION COLLECTIVE’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
COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION COLLECTIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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
95% 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 COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION COLLECTIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2021 100% · 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
89% of COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION COLLECTIVE'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 $11k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION COLLECTIVE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION COLLECTIVE
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION COLLECTIVE: 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 COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION COLLECTIVE?
- COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION COLLECTIVE (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,980 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($82,480). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION COLLECTIVE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $92,980 in grants to COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION COLLECTIVE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION COLLECTIVE?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $82,480 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION COLLECTIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), and the filings of 3 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