Kentucky · Nonprofit
COMMONWEALTH POLICY FOUNDATION INC
COMMONWEALTH POLICY FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $752,300 to it, the largest being CARSON-MYRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($215,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $340k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $752k
- Net assets
- $211k
What Commonwealth Policy Foundation Inc does
Mission
The commonwealth policy foundation is dedicated to preserving the bedrock values of life, marriage, religious freedom, and fiscal responsibility in the commonwealth of kentucky. It affirms as stated in the kentucky constitution that our civil, political and religious liberties come from god. To that end, it seeks to educate the general public on critical issues of the day, protect our freedoms, and work for policies that grow the commonwealth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Educating the general public of the commonwealth of kentucky on critical issues of the day, protect our freedoms and work for policies that grow the commonwealth.
$282,201 spent$18,201 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $282,201.
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.
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 $300k to $172k (−43%).
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.
93% of COMMONWEALTH POLICY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $8k → $217k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $172k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Commonwealth Policy Center Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money COMMONWEALTH POLICY FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of COMMONWEALTH POLICY FOUNDATION 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 POLICY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% 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 POLICY FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 66% · 2020 49% · 2021 49% · 2022 30% · 2023 46% — 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
100% of COMMONWEALTH POLICY FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 67% 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 POLICY FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $260k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
COMMONWEALTH POLICY FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,668 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,668 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMONWEALTH POLICY FOUNDATION INC
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
43%
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 1 related entity
- Commonwealth Policy Center Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMONWEALTH POLICY FOUNDATION 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH POLICY FOUNDATION INC?
- COMMONWEALTH POLICY FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $752,300 to it, the largest being CARSON-MYRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($215,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMONWEALTH POLICY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $752,300 in grants to COMMONWEALTH POLICY FOUNDATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMONWEALTH POLICY FOUNDATION INC?
- CARSON-MYRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $215,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMONWEALTH POLICY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing