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COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION I

COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION I (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$228k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$36M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Commonwealth Foundation I does

Program

Tax refund received reported as income

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($818k) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($19M)2018 Revenue 418 ($3.4M) Expenses 182 ($2.6M) Net assets 105 ($20M)2019 Revenue 2514 ($21M) Expenses 227 ($3.2M) Net assets 197 ($37M)2020 Revenue 266 ($2.2M) Expenses 294 ($4.1M) Net assets 186 ($35M)2021 Revenue 809 ($6.6M) Expenses 225 ($3.2M) Net assets 204 ($39M)2022 Revenue 378 ($3.1M) Expenses 187 ($2.6M) Net assets 207 ($39M)2023 Revenue 110 ($898k) Expenses 180 ($2.5M) Net assets 198 ($37M)2024 Revenue 28 ($228k) Expenses 115 ($1.6M) Net assets 191 ($36M)
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Revenue (28)Expenses (115)Net assets (191)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $20M to $37M (+88%).

$19M
$20M
$37M
$35M
$39M
$39M
$37M
$36M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed56666666
Joined·+1+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION I’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.

Where its funders are

COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION I draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.

NY

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION I's revenue fell 72% between 2017 and 2024.

Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−17% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION I

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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION I: 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 I?
COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION I (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION I have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION I.
Who is the largest funder of COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION I?
WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION I find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 1 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