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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.

$15k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.

Employment$125kHuman Services$108kEducation$67kCommunity Improvement$63kHealth$52kHousing & Shelter$48kPhilanthropy$32kFood & Nutrition$30kOther$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$123k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
La Cocina$15,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GirlVentures: $15k → 10%My New Red Shoes: $15k → 7%TARJIMLY: $22k → 8%Tarjimly: $15k → 8%Children Now: $15k → 10%Community Education Partnership: $15k → 10%Miracle Messages: $15k → 10%ONE DEGREE: $23k → 10%One Degree: $10k → 10%At The Crossroads: $15k → 10%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.
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.

24%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$140k · 5 repeat orgs$455k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
29

Total granted

$140k
$440k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+40%

Still filing today

80%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHealthEmploymentOther
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

  • TI
    Tarjimly Inc
    2× · 2019–2020 · $37k · revenue +185%
  • CI
    CAREERVILLAGE INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $35k · revenue +467%
  • EI
    EARN INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $17k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • IS
    INLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 211graduated
    one grant, 2019 · $23k · revenue ×24
  • T
    TALKINGPOINTSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $22k · revenue +701%
  • SI
    SUPPORTING INITIATIVES TO REDISTRIBUTE UNUSED MEDICINE - SIRUM
    one grant, 2019 · $22k · revenue -31%
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
Unitedly

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.

Human Services
2
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
3
Ffwd

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.

Philanthropy
4
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
5
California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit
6
Transformca dba Transform

Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.

Community Improvement
7
Challenge Success

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.

Education
8
Go Public Schools Advocates

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…

Education
9
Silicon Valley Rising Action

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.

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10
Common Impact Inc

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…

Unclassified
11
Northern California Grantmakers

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.

Philanthropy
12
Working Partnerships Usa

Working Partnerships USA is a community organization bringing together the power of grassroots organizing and public policy innovation to drive the movement for a just economy. We build the capacity of workers, low-income neighborhoods and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empower Work Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 35 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/32
Grantees still filing
20/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Tarjimly Inc: $37,000 · Human ServicesTarjimly IncONE DEGREE: $33,000 · Human ServicesONE DEGREECHILDREN NOW: $15,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN NOWGIRLVENTURES: $15,000 · Human ServicesGIRLVENTURESCommunity Education Partnerships: $15,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Education Partnershi…MIRACLE MESSAGES: $15,000 · Human ServicesMIRACLE MESSAGESMBOLDEN CHANGE: $15,000 · Human ServicesMBOLDEN CHANGEAT THE CROSSROADS: $15,000 · Human ServicesAT THE CROSSROADSCAREERVILLAGE INC: $35,000 · EducationCAREERVILLAGE INCTALKINGPOINTS: $22,000 · EducationTALKINGPOINTSBEYOND 12 EDUCATION INC: $15,000 · EducationBEYOND 12 EDUCATION…United for Respect Education Fund: $15,000 · EducationUnited for Respect …Urban Ed Academy: $15,000 · EducationUrban Ed AcademyRenaissance Entrepreneurship Center: $15,000 · Community ImprovementRenaissance …LA COCINA: $15,000 · Community ImprovementLA COCINACentro Community Partners: $15,000 · Community ImprovementCentro Commu…NPOWER INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementNPOWER INCMISSION ASSET FUND: $3,000 · Community ImprovementTANDEM INC: $15,000 · OtherTANDEM INCGENESYS WORKS: $15,000 · OtherGENESYS WORKSMoneythink: $15,000 · OtherMoneythinkCOACHME HEALTH: $15,000 · OtherCOACHME HEALTHCOMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE: $18,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCEYOUTH DEVELOPMENT LABS INC: $15,000 · OtherYOUTH DEVELOPMENT LABS INCPlanting Justice: $15,000 · OtherPlanting JusticeCity Surf Project: $15,000 · OtherCity Surf ProjectONE FAIR WAGE INC: $15,000 · OtherONE FAIR WAGE INCFRESH APPROACH: $15,000 · OtherFRESH APPROACHGREATNONPROFITS: $10,000 · OtherGREATNONPROFITSINLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 211: $23,000 · PhilanthropyEARN INC: $17,000 · PhilanthropySUPPORTING INITIATIVES TO REDISTRIBUTE UNUSED MEDICINE - SIRUM: $22,000 · HealthPARTNERSHIPS FOR TRAUMA RECOVERY: $15,000 · HealthEmpower Work Inc: $15,000 · EmploymentUPWARDLY GLOBAL: $15,000 · Employment
Human Services$160,000Education$102,000Community Improvement$63,000Other$163,000Philanthropy$40,000Health$37,000Employment$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTarjimly Inc: $37,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetCAREERVILLAGE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetINLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 211: $23,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTALKINGPOINTS: $22,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE: $18,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetEARN INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN NOW: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLVENTURES: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCommunity Education Partnerships: $15,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetRenaissance Entrepreneurship Center: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBEYOND 12 EDUCATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH DEVELOPMENT LABS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEmpower Work Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLA COCINA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMIRACLE MESSAGES: $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPlanting Justice: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCentro Community Partners: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMBOLDEN CHANGE: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCity Surf Project: $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNPOWER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE FAIR WAGE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOACHME HEALTH: $15,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetUnited for Respect Education Fund: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAT THE CROSSROADS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFRESH APPROACH: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUrban Ed Academy: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPARTNERSHIPS FOR TRAUMA RECOVERY: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUPWARDLY GLOBAL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATNONPROFITS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMISSION ASSET FUND: $3,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

Tides FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…The San Francisco Fou…The James Irvine Foun…FfwdImpactassetsincKaiser Foundation Hos…Marin Community Found…The David and Lucile …Silicon Valley Social…East Bay Community Fo…Bothin Foundation
Tides FoundationCA33.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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

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    How do I get to Full Circle Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Full Circle Fund 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 35 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient (grants abroad are filed by region only, and grants under $5,000 are not itemized), so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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