The Common Ground Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834375307
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2021
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Melbourne, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3219600262
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $157,515
- Expenses
- $268,376
- Assets
- $160,940
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- TENESHA MARTIN (Director)
- LISA PERRY (Director)
- ERIC BRAKKEN (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Common Ground Project is an organization that works to engage and educate votersaround a variety of kitchen table issues that have broad local appeal within their respective communities. This unique approach to engagement and consensus building is made possible by employing a research based approach to outreach and organizing throughout exurban counties, starting along the I-4 corridor, where Democrats performed poorly in the last two election cycles. This research will lay the foundation necessary to build coalitions of like-minded voters, base Democrats together with often neglected NPAs. Researching these more suburban swing and red counties will aid in developing an outreach strategy for persuading NPAs and lessenthusiastic Democrats, engaging them with targeted messaging that emphasizescommonalities instead of differences around the issues that matter to them, and creates the underlying infrastructure necessary to support both electoral work and local initiatives.
What it reported doing in 2021
Our primary focus has been developing regional profiles based on the ongoing research were conducting within our initial ten regions, as well as developing targeted digital messaging campaigns around issues and initiatives that resonate with broad swaths of the electorate. We have also undertaken campaigns focused on the Florida Legislative Session, voter education and persuasion, and candidate recruitment and support.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.1%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -70.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -131.8% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -51.2% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $263K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.