Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE COMMON GROUND PROJECT
THE COMMON GROUND PROJECT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,500 to it, the largest being JOHN E & SUE M JACKSON IRR ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $133k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $88k
- Net assets
- $5k
What The Common Ground Project does
Mission
To provide race and ethnic diversity programs
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Travel, tours & educational programs which include stops atmuseums and historical sites relating to the civil rightsmovement and the history of blacks and race relations in america.
$131,707 spentof which $55,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $131,707.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $4k to $56k (+1244%).
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.
41% of THE COMMON GROUND PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $23k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of THE COMMON GROUND PROJECT’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
THE COMMON GROUND PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 71% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
83% of THE COMMON GROUND PROJECT's grant income comes from Pennsylvania 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.
Against its field
THE COMMON GROUND PROJECT's revenue grew 31% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE COMMON GROUND PROJECT
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
44%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE COMMON GROUND PROJECT: 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 THE COMMON GROUND PROJECT?
- THE COMMON GROUND PROJECT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,500 to it, the largest being JOHN E & SUE M JACKSON IRR ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE COMMON GROUND PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $87,500 in grants to THE COMMON GROUND PROJECT.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COMMON GROUND PROJECT?
- JOHN E & SUE M JACKSON IRR is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COMMON GROUND PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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