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Who funds Common Cause?

Common Cause has received $7.4 million across 157 grants from 87 funders between 2019 and 2025. Its largest funder is Sixteen Thirty Fund.

Total received
$7.4M
Funders
87
Grants
157
Years
2019–2025

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Funders of this organization

Each funder's grants to this organization, summed across all reported years. Largest first — click any column to re-sort.

87 of 87 funders
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Funder Total givenGrantsYearsLatest Support
Sixteen Thirty Fund $1.5M52020–20242024
North Fund $850K42021–20232023
Democracy Fund Voice INC $700K42020–20232023
End Citizens United-Let America Vote Action Fund $650K120212021
Imagine North Carolina First $420K42020–20242024
Article IV $368K32022–20242024
Democracy North Carolina $312K42022–20252025
Public Wise INC $300K220202020
S Stephen M Silberstein Foundation $250K22021–20242024
The New World Foundation $250K42019–20242024
A Action Now INC $200K120222022
Ohio Voice $160K32020–20222022
The Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson Foundation $150K42020–20232023
J Jacques M Littlefield Foundation $101K120242024
G Grove Action Fund $100K120232023
Open Society Policy Center INC $95K120212021
P Proteus Action League $85K72020–20242024
New Venture Fund $77K32020–20222022
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights $75K120202020
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta INC $70K120212021
Public Citizen INC $67K22019–20212021
America Votes $55K32019–20212021
U Unite America INC $50K120242024
F Frank & Janina Petschek Foundation INC $40K42019–20222022
Fair Fight Action INC $30K120212021
Nebraska Civic Engagement Table $28K22021–20232023
United to Protect Democracy $25K120232023
The Threshold Foundation $25K120202020
W Winston Foundation INC $25K120242024
Instructional Telecommunications Foundation INC $25K120192019
T The Robert W Awalt SR Family Foundation $23K22021–20232023
World Justice Project $20K120242024
Ohio Environmental Council Action Fund INC $20K120202020
Flora Family Foundation $20K120232023
W Whispering Bells Foundation Charitable Tr Ua 122690 $15K32020–20222022
Center for Artistic Activism INC $15K120242024
Progress North Carolina $12K120202020
Community Partners $12K220192019
P Pennsylvanians Against Gerrymandering $12K120202020
Trustees of Tufts College $11K120202020
L Levin Family Foundation INC $10K120242024
O O L Pathy Family Foundation INC $10K22020–20212021
Stand Up America INC $10K120232023
B Beatrice Renfield Foundation $10K120242024
R Robert and Margaret McNamara Foundation 2 $10K42021–20242024
H Home Rule Globally $9K42022–20252025
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund $8K120192019
Represent US Education Fund $8K120212021
Blueprint North Carolina $8K120232023
Communications Workers of America Afl-CIO Clc $8K120232023
A American Muslim Community Foundation $5K120242024
I I L Cohen Foundation INC $5K22023–20242024
I Indiana Democracy Collective INC $5K120252025
T Trehan Foundation INC $5K120202020
S S C Benjamin Foundation $5K120242024
C Charles and Richard Oestreich Fdn INC $5K120242024
L Limnexus Foundation $4K120202020
2 291 Foundation $4K220192019
L Light the Candle Foundation INC $3K120212021
P Paul Hellman Foundation $2K120242024
R Richard and Ann Du Moulin Foundation $2K52020–20242024
A Albert and Joan Dorman Family Foundation $2K22023–20242024
T The Laura G Berick Foundation $2K120202020
T The Kraus Family Foundation $2K22020–20212021
T The Bahadur Family Foundation $2K120212021
A Audrey P Connor Charitable Foundation $1K120202020
G Geoffrey Gund Foundation $1K22020–20212021
R Robert & Joyce Menschel Foundation $1K120222022
T The Catalyst Foundation $1K22020–20212021
T The Albert & Judith Goldberg Foundation $1K120202020
R Richard J Phelps Charitable Foundation $1K120242024
T The Yaspan-Unterberg Foundation INC $80022023–20242024
J Jack and Deborah Daw Heffernan Foundation $60052020–20242024
J James G Hart Foundation $500120212021
A Alfred N Watson Family Foundation $500120232023
B Bechtolt Private Family Foundation $500120232023
S Salvatore M Cutrona Family Foundation $500120242024
Chicago Foundation for Women $500120232023
J Jeffrey G@pepper Foundation Trust Dated June 25 2019 $500120212021
W Wesorick Family Foundation $500120232023
F Fund for Education $500120232023
T The Gerson Family Foundation Trust $30022020–20212021
H Helen G Hauben Foundation INC $250120242024
V Van Pelt Bass Foundation $250120192019
D Danica Foundation $200120202020
S Stanley and Eve Geller Family Foundation $200120202020
W Whitney Family Foundation $200120252025

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