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INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE COMMONS
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE COMMONS (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $81 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($81). 1 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
- $263k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $81
- Net assets
- $96k
What International Association for the Study of the Commons does
Mission
The association is devoted to bringing together multi-disciplinary researchers, practioners and policymakers for the purpose of improving governance and management, advancing understanding, and creating sustainable solutions for commons, common-pool resources, or any other form of shared resource. The goal of the iasc is to encourage exchange of knowledge amont diverse disciplines, shared resources and appropriate institutional design.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The association holds global, regional and thematic conferences and meetings for members to share results from research, practical experience, and theoretical developments. Iasc fosters a range of ways to share this information and knowledge. In 2023-2024, the iasc received registrations and payments for conferences on behalf of local organizers and reimburses local organizers for incurred costs.
$37,238 spent100% of program spendingThe association sponsors the publication of the international journal of the commons to support research and dissemination of research findins for our members and other researchers and practitioners in the field.
The association informs its members about relevant developments, events, and topics via its websites,bi-weekly newletters and other media platforms.
Expenses: administrative costs, banking costs, office supplies, ict services; revenues; donations
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $37,238.
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 2024 to 2025, from $95k to $265k (+179%).
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.
27% of INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE COMMONS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 4 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $17 → $26.
1 of 1 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 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE COMMONS’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
100% of INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE COMMONS'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. $81 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
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE COMMONS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
29% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE COMMONS: 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 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE COMMONS?
- INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE COMMONS (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $81 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($81). 1 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 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE COMMONS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $81 in grants to INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE COMMONS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE COMMONS?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $81 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE COMMONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 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