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Circle of Life Foundation Inc at a glance

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Circle of Life Foundation Inc

$955
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$500
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMPHILL COMMUNITIES CALIFORNIA$500
PLOW SHARE FARM$455
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%LOAVES & FISHES INTERNATIONAL INC: $1k → 9%COMMUNITY HOMESTEAD: $1k → 9%UTAH PARENT CENTER: $500 → 8%HEARTBEAT LIFE SHARING: $1k → 12%LOAVES & FISHES INTERNATIONAL INC: $700 → 9%COMMUNITY HOMESTEAD: $1k → 9%UTAH PARENT CENTER: $500 → 8%HEARTBEET LIFE SHARING: $1k → 12%COMMUNITY HOMESTEAD: $1k → 9%HEARTBEAT LIFE SHARING: $1k → 12%CAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%COMMUNITY HOMESTEAD: $1k → 9%UTAH PARENT CENTER: $500 → 8%HEARTBEAT LIFE SHARING: $1k → 12%CAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%COMMUNITY HOMESTEAD: $1k → 9%HEARTBEAT LIFE SHARING: $1k → 12%CAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%COMMUNITY HOMESTEAD: $1k → 9%UTAH PARENT CENTER: $500 → 8%HEARTBEAT LIFE SHARING: $1k → 12%CAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%COMMUNITY HOMESTEAD: $700 → 9%UTAH PARENT CENTER: $500 → 8%HEARTBEAT LIFE SHARING: $700 → 12%CAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%CAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $700 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WI
NY
MA
PA
CA
UT
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$84k · 15 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
3

Total granted

$84k
$3k

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    Camphill Communities California
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +40%
  • PF
    PLOWSHARE FARM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +93%
  • HL
    HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • SH
    STANTON HOME LIFE NEEDS COOP
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • BB
    BEST BUDDIES
    one grant, 2017 · $500
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Camphill Village Usa Inc

To promote an active lifestyle and caring environment for adults with special needs through extended family homes, meaningful work options; and a rich array of spiritual, cultural, educational, and artistic activities.

Health
2
Camphill Ghent Inc

As part of the camphill movement, camphill ghent's mission is to create an inclusive, caring and uplifting residential community for elders, including those with developmental disabilities, which draws on the values and spiritual…

Housing & Shelter
3
Camphill Village Kimberton Hills Inc

Create and maintain a community based on the insights of anthroposophy, that promotes well being and dignity, especially including individuals with developmental disabilities; and administers land and natural resources according to the…

Food & Nutrition
4
Hilltop Ranch

Hilltop Ranch's mission is to create and operate a sustainable residential community for adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities (IDD) that expresses the love of Jesus Christ.

Human Services
5
Camphill Soltane

Camphill soltane provides opportunities for education, healing, relationship building, and meaningful, fulfilling, engagement and work for people with neurological and intellectual differences, their families and supporters.

Education
6
Hammer Residences Inc

To provide people with developmental disabilities the opportunity to experience life to its fullest.

Human Services
7
Lighthouse Christian Home and Services Inc

For god's love to be expressed for and by individuals with developmental disabilities through faith based programs and services.

Human Services
8
Heinzerling Community

The mission of the Heinzerling Community is to provide a loving and nurturing environment that enriches the development, education and quality of life of individuals with severe or profound intellectual impairments and developmental…

Human Services
9
Community Residences Inc

Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.

Human Services
10
The Village Community

To provide a place where people with intellectual disabilities are nurtured and valued, a place where they will be engaged in all aspects of their lives, learning and working alongside lifelong friends, family and members of the community.

Housing & Shelter
11
His Eye Is On the Sparrow

Provide home and services for individuals with developmental disabilities in a caring family environment based on Christian values. The homes serve as a base from which home members contribute to and participate in the larger community.

Human Services
12
Halom House Inc

Halom house, inc. is a private, non-profit residential agency supporting adults with developmental disabilities in the southern ohio area. halom house, inc. is dedicated to upholding the rights and responsibilities of every client served;…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camphill Communities California; the most unlike its peers is The Spirit of Gheel Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLOWSHARE FARM INC: $7,155 · OtherPLOWSHARE FARM INCIndividual grant recipient: $6,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMAISON EMMANUEL FOUNDATION: $6,700 · OtherMAISON EMMANUEL FOUNDATIONTHE SPIRIT OF GHEEL INC: $6,700 · OtherTHE SPIRIT OF GHEEL INCSTANTONHOMEORG: $5,700 · OtherSTANTONHOMEORGTRIFORM: $5,700 · OtherTRIFORMOTTO SPECHT SCHOOL: $4,500 · OtherOTTO SPECHT SCHOOL+3 more: $2,500 · Other+3 moreHEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION: $6,700 · Human ServicesHEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATIONCOMMUNITY HOMESTEAD INC: $6,700 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HOMESTEAD INCCAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $6,700 · Human ServicesCAMPHILL FOUNDATIONLOAVES AND FISHES INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,700 · Human ServicesLOAVES AND FISHES INTERNATIONAL IN…Utah Parent Center Inc: $2,500 · Human ServicesUtah Parent Center IncCamphill Communities California: $7,200 · HealthCamphill …THE CAMPHILL SCHOOL INC: $6,700 · EducationSPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$45,655Human Services$26,300Health$7,200Education$6,700Recreation & Sports$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Camphill Communities California ↗
  • Who funds PLOWSHARE FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HOMESTEAD INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMPHILL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CAMPHILL SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SPIRIT OF GHEEL INC ↗
  • Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Utah Parent Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC ↗

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 Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Circle of Life Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Circle of Life Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Heartbeet Lifesharing Corporation: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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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