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Circle of Sisterhood Foundation Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Circle of Sisterhood Foundation Inc

Uplifting girls and women from poverty and oppression through education.

$149k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$69k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Education$660kInternational$533kYouth Development$70kHuman Services$20kCommunity Improvement$10kHealth$10kEmployment$10k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $69k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$289k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUILDON INC$69,000
THE MOONCATCHER PROJECT INC$10,000
CREAMOS NORTE$10,000
LOTUS OUTREACH$10,000
GIRLS GOTTA RUN FOUNDATION$10,000
STREET CHILD US$10,000
FRONTLINE WOMEN'S FUND$10,000
KAKENYA'S DREAM$10,000
COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC: $10k → 12%NEW HORIZONS HOUSE: $10k → 3%CREAMOS NORTE: $10k → 7%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

ME
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
NC
DC
TX
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$953k · 14 repeat orgs$360k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against -13% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
30

Total granted

$953k
$300k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
-13%

Still filing today

93%
97%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentReligionHealthOther
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

  • BUILDON INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $347k · revenue +39%
  • CF
    COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION
    4× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +16%
  • CA
    CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MOONCATCHER PROJECT
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • RR
    RAZIAS RAY OF HOPE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -20%
  • SF
    Surge for Water Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +34%
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
Educate Girls

Educate Girls promotes and protects the right of girls to a quality education and works by supporting partners in geographies where the need is greatest to mobilize communities, enroll girls into school and improve learning outcomes. Our…

International
2
Global Glow
Youth Development
3
Together Women Rise

Together women rise champions gender equality because womens rights are human rights. when women and girls are treated equally, the world is healthier, safer, more peaceful, inclusive, and economically just for everyone.

Philanthropy
4
Ceda International

To strengthen young women's civic participation and leadership

—
5
Africa Agility

Our mission is to equip underserved youthespecially women and girls with future-ready skills in technology Agile methodologies and entrepreneurship empowering them to access dignified work drive innovation and compete globally.

Education
6
Womens Global Health Network Inc

To promote health and education for women and children in the most underserved and difficult to reach places in the world.

Education
7
Karuna Usa Inc

Access to opportunities for marginalzed people in South Asia

International
8
Shadhika Project

Shadhika believes in a future where each person in India can choose their own path to meaning, purpose, and happiness. Through global philanthropy and in-country programming, Shadhika believes that education is the most effective vehicle…

—
9
Womens Empowerment Coalition

To advance gender equity through education, mentorship, and economic opportunity in marginalized communities.

Civil Rights
10
She-Can Global Inc

The world is grappling with complex problems, including climate change, war, poverty, and ongoing human rights violations. These issues disproportionately impact women, particularly in developing countries. In nations recovering from…

Education
11
U-Touch Inc

Sch O

International
12
Girls Education Collaborative Inc

GEC partners with locally-led organizations to catalyze and support sustainable, community-driven solutions that remove social, economic, and gender-based barriers keeping girls out of school in under-resourced regions of the global south.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Safe House Education Fund; the most unlike its peers is The Minga Foundation. 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

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 50 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
21/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUILDON INC: $347,000 · InternationalBUILDON INCCENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE: $39,600 · InternationalCENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTEDignity Period: $30,000 · InternationalREMEMBER NIGER COALITION: $25,000 · International+20 more: $220,000 · International+20 moreBUILDON INC: $283,000 · OtherBUILDON INCTHE SAFE HOUSE EDUCATION FUND: $30,000 · OtherTHE SAFE HOUSE EDUCATION FUND+5 more: $50,000 · Other+5 moreCOOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION: $40,000 · EducationCOOPERATIVE …STREET BUSINESS SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationSTREET BUSIN…NURTURING MINDS INC: $20,000 · EducationNURTURING MI…RAZIAS RAY OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationRAZIAS RAY O…Engage Globally: $10,000 · EducationEngage Globa…LIMITLESS HORIZONS IXIL INC: $10,000 · EducationLIMITLESS HO…WOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT: $10,000 · EducationWOMENS GLOBA…EVEN GROUND INC: $10,000 · EducationEVEN GROUND …KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE: $10,000 · EducationKAKENYA CENT…RAIN FOR THE SAHEL AND SAHARA INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCreamos Norte: $10,000 · Human ServicesHER FUTURE COALITION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNEW HORIZONS HOUSE: $10,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOTUS OUTREACH: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTARFISH INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBEGIN ANEW: $18,000 · ReligionMALI HEALTH ORGANIZING PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Community Improvement
International$661,600Other$363,000Education$140,000Human Services$70,000Youth Development$50,000Religion$18,000Community Improvement$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBUILDON INC: $347,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE: $39,600 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SAFE HOUSE EDUCATION FUND: $30,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetRAIN FOR THE SAHEL AND SAHARA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetDignity Period: $30,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetREMEMBER NIGER COALITION: $25,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTHE MOONCATCHER PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetTHE MINGA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetSTREET BUSINESS SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNURTURING MINDS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBEGIN ANEW: $18,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetRAZIAS RAY OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSurge for Water Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGIRL UP INITIATIVE UGANDA: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSAMBHALI US INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetMALI HEALTH ORGANIZING PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSUNSAR MAYA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFriends of Tilonia Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S INSTITUTE FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION & RESEARCH INT'L INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEngage Globally: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetYOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREAL HUMANITARIAN: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetKENYA CONNECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetONEVILLAGE PARTNERS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetToo Young to Wed Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCreamos Norte: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHER FUTURE COALITION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLIMITLESS HORIZONS IXIL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetInternational Literacy and Development: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEVEN GROUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR HOPE AND HEALTH IN HAITI: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNEW HORIZONS HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetKAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLYING KITES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe American Himalayan Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTARFISH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE BRIGHTON JONES RICHER LIFE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% 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.

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.

Together Women RiseGlobalgiving Foundati…One Days WagesKathryn B McQuade Fou…GofundmeorgWeyerhaeuser Family F…Stone Family Foundati…Journey Charitable Fo…Luis Von Ahn Foundati…Inmaat FoundationSegal Family Foundati…The Chicago Community…
Together Women RiseSC40.8× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Together Women Rise · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · One Days Wages · Kathryn B McQuade Foundation · Gofundmeorg · Weyerhaeuser Family Foundationinc · Stone Family Foundation · Journey Charitable Foundation · Luis Von Ahn Foundation · Inmaat Foundation · Segal Family Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Circle of Sisterhood Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Circle of Sisterhood Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 50 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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