Common Ground Network Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943415415
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Mansfield, TX, USA
- Phone
- 6822594872
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $210,823
- Expenses
- $168,627
- Assets
- $137,225
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JIM HAMPTON (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LIZ WRIGHT (TREASURER): $10,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide school age children with food and school supplies
What it reported doing in 2025
Christmas assistance program each year a network of churches and civic groups "adopt" groups of children that provide gifts and clothing to each child in our community that is in need. The common ground network inc qualifies families through an application process in october that is promoted within mansfield isd. Once families have been approved, their information is distributed to churches and organizations that provide the needs for the family during the month of december. Each program is slightly different but every family is sure to feel the holiday spirit. School supplies each fall common ground network, inc. Partners with the mansfield isd in providing thousands of pencils, folders, glue sticks and more to families in the community who would otherwise struggle to provide their students with necessary school supplies. Hundreds of volunteers are needed to make this event a success and thousands of dollars are needed to provide the supplies. Distribution is the second saturday of august and is hosted at the mansfield back to school bash.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 93% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.8%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $169K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $10K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.