Massachusetts · Nonprofit
COMMONWEALTH LAND TRUST INC
COMMONWEALTH LAND TRUST INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,680,839 to it, the largest being United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($1,070,451). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COMMONWEALTH LAND TRUST INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 817 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 817 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- Children's Hospital Corporationshared funderslocal
- Grounded Solutions Networkportfolio match
- Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Incportfolio 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.
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: 2017 27% · 2018 29% · 2019 34% · 2020 32% · 2021 48% · 2022 47% · 2023 67% · 2024 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of COMMONWEALTH LAND TRUST INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (12% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $80k → $151k.
From the IRS filings of COMMONWEALTH LAND TRUST INC’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 LAND TRUST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 LAND TRUST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 61% · 2021 100% · 2022 78% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
40% of COMMONWEALTH LAND TRUST INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of COMMONWEALTH LAND TRUST INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
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. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Children's Hospital Corporationshared funderslocalMA · backs 93 organizations that share your funders · funds 166 organizations near you
- Grounded Solutions Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kuehn Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leader Bank Charitable Foundation Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Aubert J Fay Charitable Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ruby W and Lavon P Linn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Housing Partnership Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bowdoin Apartments Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Battles Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pca Foundation 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 COMMONWEALTH LAND TRUST INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 10 related entities
- Windsor House Lodging Limited Liability Company · disregarded
- Roxbury Corner LLC · disregarded
- Warren Street LLC · disregarded
- Seaver Street LLC · disregarded
- 123 Crawford Street Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMONWEALTH LAND TRUST INC: 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 COMMONWEALTH LAND TRUST INC?
- COMMONWEALTH LAND TRUST INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,680,839 to it, the largest being United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($1,070,451). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMONWEALTH LAND TRUST INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,680,839 in grants to COMMONWEALTH LAND TRUST INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMONWEALTH LAND TRUST INC?
- United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,070,451 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMONWEALTH LAND TRUST INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 8funders 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