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COMMON VISION

EIN 80-0615097 BERKELEY, CA

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Revenue 2024
$603,858
Expenses 2024
$608,878

Program services were 57.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C40
Classification
1000
Street
2620 CALIFORNIA ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Grounded at the intersection of education, food, and the environment, Common Vision nourishes the transformation of urban landscapes so that healthy communities flourish for generations to come.

  • Common Vision managed school gardens and their programs at three Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) - Prescott Elementary, MLK Jr Elementary, and West Oakland Middle School - for the 2024-25 academic year with the same services provided for summer school through contract with Bay Area Community Resources. The organization recovered more that 100,000 pounds of food (before its deposit into landfills) and distributed it at no cost to families at school garden sites from Good Eggs, Sprouts Market, and the Alameda County Community Food Bank. Contracts for tree planting and maintenance and community outreach, education and engagement were confirmed with the City of Oakland, Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation, the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, and OUSD. To date, 100+ trees were planted and maintained in South Prescott Park, Mandela Parkway, Prescott Elementary.

    Expenses $348,849

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Wanda Stewart

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $85,280
    From this org
    $85,280
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • John Pomeroy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Marianne Malveaux

    FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Otis Johnson

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Patricia Miller

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shamika Thomas

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $603,858
    Expenses
    $608,878
    Contributions
    $553,450
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $921,110
    Expenses
    $1,012,576
    Contributions
    $844,009
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,326,314
    Expenses
    $2,259,561
    Contributions
    $1,001,131
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,627,683
    Expenses
    $3,973,029
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,057,070

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,401,517
    Expenses
    $3,976,978
    Assets (EOY)
    $814,631

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,530,105
    Expenses
    $1,195,064
    Assets (EOY)
    $382,215

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $63,659
    Expenses
    $114,424
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,110

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $90,905
    Expenses
    $130,112
    Assets (EOY)
    $56,275

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $217,755
    Expenses
    $223,547
    Assets (EOY)
    $95,482

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $121,071
    Expenses
    $175,320
    Assets (EOY)
    $100,911

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $231,152
    Expenses
    $139,027
    Assets (EOY)
    $155,160

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $118,871
    Expenses
    $129,378
    Assets (EOY)
    $63,120

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2013

Tax period
1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013
Principal officer
Leo C Buc
Mailing address
PO Box 638Ukiah CA 95482
Website
www.commonvision.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2013, reinstated 15 May 2013.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.