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Grantmaking public charityEIN 943214166

COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION

OAKLAND, CA 94612

Total Assets

$67.5M

FY 2024

Annual Giving

$101.2M

FY 2024

Grants Made

621

FY 2024

Avg Grant

$163K

FY 2024

Grant Range

Typical

Deadlines

Applications

Programs & Activities

Program 1

$17.9M

Fiscal sponsorship common counsel foundation's fiscal sponsorship program ensures the health and vitality of the sponsored community-led organizations, and promotes strategic coordination in the philanthropic sector. In 2024, ccf acted as fiscal sponsor for the movement 4 black lives, rising majority, and color congress. The movement 4 black lives was created as a space for black organizations across the country to debate and discuss the current political conditions, develop shared assessments of what political interventions were necessary in order to achieve key policy, cultural and political wins, convene organizational leadership in order to debate and cocreate a shared movement wide strategy. The rising majority is a coalition that commits to developing a collective strategy and shared practice that brings together labor, youth, abolition, immigrant rights, climate justice, feminist, anti-war, and economic justice forces to amplify their collective power. Color congress is an intermediary and a funder that is building a national collective of majority people of color (poc) and pocled organizations aimed at centering and strengthening nonfiction storytelling by, for and about people of color across the united states and territories.

Program 2

$3.4M

Philanthropic services - common counsel foundation provides strategic philanthropic advice, grants management and administration, and accounting support to independent foundations that share a commitment to equity and environmental health. Ccf assists its clients in streamlining their grantmaking processes and deepening their impact. In addition to the services already noted, ccf helps clients refine their grantmaking strategy and provides research, due diligence, grant recommendations, trustee support, and legal compliance. Ccf taps community advisors, each of whom has deep connections to community-led organizations and whose knowledge and expertise adds to the knowledge and expertise of ccf's staff. Ccf's community advisors and staff ensure that the organization is aware of the latest innovations emerging from local communities and of pioneering solutions developed by local leaders. Ccf's staff and advisors are able to identify community leaders who have exciting vision and organizations with promising new models and approaches.

Focus Areas

Community Improvement & Capacity Building

Financial Snapshot

2024 filing

Total Revenue

$51.4M

Total Expenses

$126.1M

Top Recipients

500 grants

Grant Size Distribution

500 grants

<$10K
$10–50K
359
grants
$50–250K
109
grants
$250K–1M
26
grants
$1–5M
4
grants
$5M+
2
grants

Geographic Focus

44 states

Maryland
$37.8M
38% of total
Georgia
$16.9M
17% of total
California
$14.1M
14% of total
Massachusetts
$8.5M
9% of total
New York
$5.7M
6% of total
North Carolina
$2.7M
3% of total
District of Columbia
$2.2M
2% of total
Alabama
$1.4M
1% of total
South Dakota
$938K
1% of total
Pennsylvania
$900K
1% of total

+34 more states

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