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PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMONSENSE JUSTICE INC

PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMONSENSE JUSTICE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being KENTUCKY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2020
$40k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$45k
Net assets
$42k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What Partnership for Commonsense Justice Inc does

Mission

The partnership for commonsense justice - a coalition of businesses and business groups, non-profit organizations, and like-minded individuals dedicated to advancing kentucky - recognizes the need for fairness and excellence in kentucky's legal system. The partnership will work to educate its members, their employees, and the public on the importance of judicial elections and judicial issues to the commonwealth's economic vitality and to the long-term quality of life and economic opportunities of all kentuckians.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.

Program

The partnership's activities include:legal & policy analysis - guiding the activities of the partnership and inform its members and the public.candidate research - evaluating candidates for the kentucky supreme court and the kentucky court of appeals.grassroots education & public relations - informing businesses, employees, and the general public about the findings of our research and analysis and about the important issues in key judicial races.

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

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 ($85k) Expenses 100 ($58k) Net assets 100 ($57k)2018 Revenue 71 ($60k) Expenses 135 ($78k) Net assets 68 ($38k)2019 Revenue 53 ($45k) Expenses 85 ($49k) Net assets 60 ($34k)2020 Revenue 47 ($40k) Expenses 56 ($32k) Net assets 74 ($42k)
2017201820192020
Revenue (47)Expenses (56)Net assets (74)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 2017 to 2018, from $57k to $38k (−32%).

$57k
$38k
$34k
$42k
2017201820192020
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMONSENSE JUSTICE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,450 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$27k
’17
−$18k
’18
−$4k
’19
$8k
’20
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.

Funder
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMONSENSE JUSTICE 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.

Where its funders are

100% of PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMONSENSE JUSTICE INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

KY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
Kentucky out of state home

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

PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMONSENSE JUSTICE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 643 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−22% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 643 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2020

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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 PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMONSENSE JUSTICE 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMONSENSE JUSTICE INC?
PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMONSENSE JUSTICE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being KENTUCKY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMONSENSE JUSTICE INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $45,000 in grants to PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMONSENSE JUSTICE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMONSENSE JUSTICE INC?
KENTUCKY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMONSENSE JUSTICE 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), 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