CENTER FOR COMMON SENSE IN SCIENCE

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

W20

Classification

1000

Street

300 S RIVERSIDE PLZ STE 1625

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).

Other organizations at this address

8 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 1625). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

• AMERICAN CULTURE FOUNDATION

  EIN 45-4206354

• AMERICAN CULTURE PROJECT

  EIN 83-1575590

• AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA

  EIN 81-4770680

• HALL OF GIANTS - THE ENTREPRENEURS THAT MADE AMERICA

  EIN 87-1077210

• IRON LIGHT LABS

  EIN 86-1206324

• SCHOOL BOARDS FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

  EIN 93-2247356

• STATE ARMOR RESEARCH

  EIN 93-3680973

• THINK FREELY MEDIA INC

  EIN 27-1110796

Mission and programs · 2024

• FUNDING INDEPENDENT RESEARCH THROUGH COMPETITIVE GRANT AWARDS, PRODUCING AND PUBLISHING ANALYSIS OF SCIENCE IMPACTING LEGAL OR ECONOMIC ISSUES, AND OUTREACH TO ALLIED STAKEHOLDERS.

  Expenses $954,555

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.

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $1,240,327

  Expenses

  $1,156,416

  Contributions

  $1,230,674

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,389,140

  Expenses

  $1,027,790

  Contributions

  $1,385,150

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $910,020

  Expenses

  $901,289

  Contributions

  $910,020

  Grants paid

  $15,000

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

  $1,510,000

  Expenses

  $1,289,368

  Assets (EOY)

  $360,023

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $645,000

  Expenses

  $627,107

  Assets (EOY)

  $62,951

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $444

  Expenses

  $3,121

  Assets (EOY)

  $0

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $139,295

  Expenses

  $242,488

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,677

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $883,214

  Expenses

  $870,561

  Assets (EOY)

  $111,404

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.

Grants made

• CARDNO CHEMRISK LLC

  $15,000

  2022 · RESEARCH GRANT

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• DONORS TRUST INC

  $1,255,000

  2023 · for general operations

• DONORS TRUST INC

  $1,120,000

  2024 · for general operations

• DONORS TRUST INC

  $750,000

  2022 · for general operations

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

• BEARING TREE INC.

  $1,230,675 raised

  2024 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $1,170,675 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

Other IRS files