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Circle of Life Foundation Inc

$955
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$500
Organizations funded a year
12 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Circle of Life Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$9550%
FY202312$12k17%
FY202212$12k0%
FY202113$13k0%
FY202014$14k0%
FY201914$13k7%
FY201814$13k0%
FY201715$10kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$48kHuman Services$20kEducation$11kReligion$7kRecreation & Sports$1k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WI
NY
MA
PA
CA
UT
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($32k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Circle of Life Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCamphill Communities California: $7,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPlowshare Farm Inc: $7,155 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHeartbeet Lifesharing Corporation: $6,700 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Homestead Inc: $6,700 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCamphill Foundation: $6,700 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Camphill School Inc: $6,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Spirit of Gheel Inc: $6,700 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLoaves and Fishes International Inc: $3,700 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUtah Parent Center Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Olympics Utah Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Circle of Life Foundation Inc

How much does Circle of Life Foundation Inc give?
Circle of Life Foundation Inc reported 2 grants totaling $955 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Circle of Life Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (56%), Human Services (23%), Education (13%).
Who are Circle of Life Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Camphill Communities California ($7k), Plowshare Farm Inc ($7k), Heartbeet Lifesharing Corporation ($7k).
Does Circle of Life Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Circle of Life Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Circle of Life Foundation Inc based?
Circle of Life Foundation Inc is based in UT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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