Common Ground Project

Analysis

Common Ground Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Emigrant, MT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2020, 6 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public and societal benefit, which this site groups under other charitable purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Common Ground Project reported income of $114k and spending of $197k, spending 173% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $123k to $114k (-7.3%), an average of -3.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 137%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Common Ground Project sits at the 40th percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile, and in the 38th percentile within MT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lenox Community Trust ($114k), PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc ($114k) and Camp Sue Osborn Inc ($114k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 22% and program service revenue 77% of the total. At year end it held assets of $83k against liabilities of $5,107, net assets of $77k.