Funding search · EIN 943214166 · Oakland, CA

Common Counsel Foundation

Name: Common Counsel Foundation grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

1,523
grants reported: $171.1M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $30,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

black community organizing arts education collective storytelling justice

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Grassroots organizing led by Black, Indigenous, and people of color
Community land trusts and land return, including COCP participation
Food and land sovereignty: farmer of color networks, co-ops, seed fellowships
Fiscally sponsored movement projects and pooled/regranting funds
Disability justice, trans justice, and sex worker-led organizing
Climate and ecological justice tied to frontline communities

Typical grant

The median grant is $30,000 and the middle half falls between $20,000 and $50,000, so the everyday check is small and unrestricted. Six- and seven-figure grants go to fund closeouts, pooled vehicles, and land or building purchases (Native Land Conservancy at $4M, Movement 4 Black Lives closeout at $15.8M), not to project proposals. Community land trusts cluster tightly at $150,000, and several grantees appear multiple times in a single year, so repeat and multi-tranche support is normal.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“GENERAL SUPPORT”
“GENERAL SUPPORT AND COCP PARTICIPATION”
“COMMUNITY ORGANIZING”
“FUND CLOSEOUT”

Positioning adjacent work

Ask for general support, not project funding. Their own wording defaults to unrestricted.
Size the request at $30,000 to $150,000 unless you hold land or a building.
Connect to a named theme they already fund: land trusts, farmers of color, disability justice, Indigenous language.
If you lack 501c3 status, route through a fiscal sponsor. They fund SEE, Social Good Fund, Tides, Proteus routinely.

Worth knowing: California takes roughly a quarter of all grants, with New York, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Georgia next; the Southeast and Indian Country show up through pooled funds like Southern Power Fund and NDN Collective. Two 2024 fund closeouts account for over $53M of the $171M total, so the operating grantmaking is much smaller than the headline figure, and it flows heavily to movement intermediaries and repeat grantees like Center for Third World Organizing, Resist, and Groundswell.

0 grants matching “democracy and civic engagement”

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Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Impactassetsinc1 grant · $37.2M
Movement 4 Black Lives1 grant · $15.8M
The Accomplis Collective9 grants · $8.7M
Center for Third World Organizing13 grants · $5.6M
Native Land Conservancy3 grants · $5.0M
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation2 grants · $4.7M
Resist4 grants · $3.5M
Black Farmer Fund1 grant · $3.3M
Neo Philanthropy6 grants · $2.6M
Freedom Org3 grants · $2.5M

Giving over time

$33.9M

2022

$36.2M

2023

$101.0M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 1,523 grants.

$37.2M
Impactassetsinc · Bethesda, MD · 2024
Fund closeout
$15.8M
Movement 4 Black Lives · Lawrenceville, GA · 2024
Fund closeout
$4.0M
Native Land Conservancy · Mashpee, MA · 2024
General support
$3.5M
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
Project support to advance organizational mission
$3.3M
Black Farmer Fund · Bronx, NY · 2022
General operating
$3.0M
Center for Third World Organizing · Oakland, CA · 2023
Project support for persimmon collective
$2.5M
The Accomplis Collective · New York, NY · 2024
80 acres
$2.5M
The Accomplis Collective · New York, NY · 2023
Project support 80 acres
$2.0M
The Accomplis Collective · New York, NY · 2023
Project support blackyard
$1.5M
Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2024
Cypress fund
$1.5M
Freedom Org · Rocky Mt, NC · 2023
General operating
$1.3M
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
To support community organizing purposes
$1.2M
Buffalo Go Green · Buffalo, NY · 2022
General operating
$1.1M
Resist · Boston, MA · 2024
Northeast farmers of color network
$1.1M
Resist · Boston, MA · 2023
Project support nefoc
$1.1M
Resist · Boston, MA · 2022
Project support for land stewardship advocacy and organizing
$1.1M
Youth-N-Action · Montgomery, AL · 2023
Project support fresh greens market
$1.0M
Ekvnv Yefolecvlke · Weogufka, AL · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Freedom Org · Rocky Mt, NC · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Lighthouse Holyoke · Holyoke, MA · 2024
Building purchase project
$1.0M
Social Good Fund · Richmond, CA · 2024
Braiding seeds fellowship
$1.0M
Buffalo Go Green · Buffalo, NY · 2023
General operating
$1.0M
Native Land Conservancy · Mashpee, MA · 2023
General operating
$987,333
Center for Third World Organizing · Oakland, CA · 2022
General operating
$928,772
Acorn Center for Restoration and Freedom · Covington, GA · 2023
Project support for clarke street fund
$884,757
Highlander Research and Education Center · New Market, TN · 2022
General operating
$750,000
Ndn Collective · Rapid City, SD · 2024
Community action fund
$719,900
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
To support community organizing purposes
$712,000
The Accomplis Collective · New York, NY · 2023
Project support emerge
$640,000
Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity · New York, NY · 2022
General operating
$560,000
Groundswell Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General operating
$550,000
Groundswell Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General operating
$540,000
Center for Third World Organizing · Oakland, CA · 2024
Praxis power groups
$530,000
Highlander Research and Education Center · New Market, TN · 2023
Project support southern power fund
$530,000
Proteus Fund · Amherst, MA · 2022
General operating support
$521,500
Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support
$520,000
The Accomplis Collective · New York, NY · 2022
General operating
$507,000
Right To the City Alliance · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General operating support
$500,000
Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund · Oakland, CA · 2024
Solidarity ecologies
$500,000
Groundswell Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General support
$500,000
Haymarket People'S Fund · Boston, MA · 2024
General support and 50th anniversary campaign
$500,000
Highlander Research and Education Center · New Market, TN · 2024
Southern power fund
$500,000
Occidental Arts & Ecology Center · Occidental, CA · 2024
Alliance of land-based mutual aid
$500,000
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc(See) · Calabasas, CA · 2024
North carolina black leadership and organizing collective
$500,000
University Corporation San Franciso State · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Climate and ecological justice undergraduate internship program
$500,000
Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund · Oakland, CA · 2023
Project support for solidarity ecologies
$500,000
Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2023
Project support cypress fund
$500,000
Sonrisas · Cheshire, MA · 2022
General operating
$454,801
Center for Third World Organizing · Oakland, CA · 2023
General operating
$440,000
Ekvnv Yefolecvlke · Weogufka, AL · 2022
General operating
$400,000
Dancers Group - Sins Invalid · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Sins invalid
$400,000
Heard · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$350,000
The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
General support
$310,000
Haymarket People'S Fund · Boston, MA · 2023
General operating
$310,000
Haymarket Peoples Fund · Boston, MA · 2022
General operating
$300,000
Center for Third World Organizing · Oakland, CA · 2024
Equitation by: avry jxn and tierra fertile cooperativa
$300,000
Ginga & Ignin Collective · Juneau, AK · 2024
Native language teachers fellowship
$300,000
Lyon-Martin Community Health Services · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Capital campaign
$300,000
Native Movement · Fairbanks, AK · 2024
The mother earth alliance
$300,000
Smile Trust the · Miami, FL · 2024
General support
$300,000
The Accomplis Collective · New York, NY · 2024
The emerge group
$300,000
US Climate Action Network · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$300,000
We the People of Detroit · Detroit, MI · 2024
Lead is a great lakes problem
$300,000
Medicine Bowl Giving Circle · Green Mountain, NC · 2023
General operating
$300,000
Medicine Bowl Giving Circle · Green Mountain, NC · 2022
General operating support
$280,000
Nc Survivors Union · Greensboro, NC · 2024
Grammy's place
$280,000
The Farm School · Athol, MA · 2023
Capacity building and general operating
$250,000
Arise · Springfield, MA · 2024
Willow permanent real estate cooperative
$250,000
Groundswell Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General support
$250,000
Medicine Bowl Giving Circle · Green Mountain, NC · 2024
General support
$250,000
Proteus Fund · Amherst, MA · 2024
Third wave fund
$250,000
Resist · Boston, MA · 2024
Bent birch retreat center
$250,000
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc(See) · Calabasas, CA · 2024
Health justice commons
$250,000
Tides Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Trans justice funding project's collective action fund
$250,000
Arise · Springfield, MA · 2023
Project support for willow permanent real estate coope
$250,000
Black Feminist Future · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Project support for community organizing
$250,000
Girls for a Change · North Chestfield, VA · 2023
Capacity building support
$250,000
Northeast Native Network of Kinship · Vineyard Haven, MA · 2023
General operating
$240,000
Visual Communications Media · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Project support for health education and advocacy
$230,000
Inquiring Systems · Santa Rosa, CA · 2022
General operating
$213,750
Manzanita Capital Collective · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General operating
$200,000
Medicine Bowl Giving Circle · Green Mountain, NC · 2024
General support
$200,000
Inquiring Systems · Santa Rosa, CA · 2023
Project support cofed
$200,000
Centro De Trabajadores Unidos En Lucha · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
Project support for land stewardship and food justice
$190,625
Community Aid and Development Corporatio · Decatur, GA · 2022
General operating
$190,000
Alliance for Global Justice · Tucson, AZ · 2022
General operating
$188,000
Dakota Resource Council · Bismarck, ND · 2024
Turtle mountain juneberry co-op
$188,000
Native American Fiber Program · Lodi, CA · 2022
Project and capacity building support
$175,000
Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2023
Project support for peace and healing work
$166,250
Manzanita Capital Collective · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General support
$166,200
Power California · Oakland, CA · 2022
General operating support
$165,000
Youth-N-Action · Montgomery, AL · 2024
The daughters table
$160,000
Sanctuary in the City · Huntersville, NC · 2024
Unshackled alchemy
$159,100
Equity and Transformation · Chicago, IL · 2022
General operating
$157,714
Tides Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Project support dream defenders
$155,000
Tides Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
General operating
$154,539
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Project support for community organizing
$150,000
A Sacred Passing Death Midwifery & Community Edu · Seattle, WA · 2024
General support
$150,000
Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support and cocp participation
$150,000
Black and Pink · Omaha, NE · 2024
General support

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.