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Full Circle Fund
Full Circle Fund FCF is a nonprofit community that leverages its professionals financial and intellectual capital to accelerate nonprofits and build a better S.F.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| La Cocina | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TITarjimly Inc2× · 2019–2020 · $37k · revenue +185%
- CICAREERVILLAGE INC2× · 2019–2020 · $35k · revenue +467%
- EIEARN INC2× · 2019–2020 · $17k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- ISINLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 211graduatedone grant, 2019 · $23k · revenue ×24
- SISUPPORTING INITIATIVES TO REDISTRIBUTE UNUSED MEDICINE - SIRUMone grant, 2019 · $22k · revenue -31%
- TTALKINGPOINTSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $22k · revenue +701%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
FFWD accelerates the growth of technology nonprofits by providing financial and human capital to help scale technology solutions for education, environmental, health, and human rights issues.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
Challenge Success partners with schools, families, and communities to embrace a broad definition of success and implement research-based strategies that promote student well-being and engagement with learning.
Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.
Our mission is to activate the leadership of families, educators, and community allies to advocate on behalf of California children and youth to ensure that all students have access to excellent public schools in their neighborhoods and…
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
Silicon Valley Rising Action takes on occupational segregation and income inequality with a comprehensive campaign to raise wages, create affordable housing, and build a tech economy that works for everyone.
Center for Humane Technology is a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that the most consequential technologies actually serve humanity. We bring clarity to how the tech ecosystem works in order to shift the incentives that drive it.
regions most pressing social issues. We pool resources, share information, work together, and learn from each other. NCG recognizes that the challenges facing our communities are complex, entrenched and interconnected.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empower Work Inc and the most unlike its peers is Coachme Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Tarjimly Inc ↗
- Who funds CAREERVILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds ONE DEGREE ↗
- Who funds INLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 211 ↗
- Who funds SUPPORTING INITIATIVES TO REDISTRIBUTE UNUSED MEDICINE - SIRUM ↗
- Who funds TALKINGPOINTS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds EARN INC ↗
- Who funds MBOLDEN CHANGE ↗
- Who funds GIRLVENTURES ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center ↗
- Who funds BEYOND 12 EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN NOW ↗
- Who funds Empower Work Inc ↗
- Who funds NPOWER INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE MESSAGES ↗
- Who funds YOUTH DEVELOPMENT LABS INC ↗
- Who funds Centro Community Partners ↗
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- Who funds City Surf Project ↗
- Who funds Community Education Partnerships ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIPS FOR TRAUMA RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds LA COCINA ↗
- Who funds COACHME HEALTH ↗
- Who funds United for Respect Education Fund ↗
- Who funds AT THE CROSSROADS ↗
- Who funds ONE FAIR WAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH APPROACH ↗
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- Who funds UPWARDLY GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds GREATNONPROFITS ↗
- Who funds MISSION ASSET FUND ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Ffwd · Impactassetsinc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Marin Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - Sv2 · East Bay Community Foundation · Bothin Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Full Circle Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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