Missouri · Private foundation
The Circle Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $47k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $406k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Circle Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $47k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $35k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $45k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $1k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $123k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $10k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marian Middle School | $116,250 | 2 | 5% |
| Mary Queen of Peace Catholic Church | $42,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Nerinx Hall High School | $35,000 | 3 | n/a |
| St Louis Area Food Bank Inc | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Scholarship Foundation of St Louis | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fish of Sanibel-Captiva Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Mary Culver Home | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Caritas Connections Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Junior Golf Foundation of Greater St Louis | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marian Middle School | $116,250 | 2 | 5% |
| Mary Queen of Peace Catholic Church | $42,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Nerinx Hall High School | $35,000 | 3 | n/a |
| St Louis Area Food Bank Inc | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Scholarship Foundation of St Louis | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fish of Sanibel-Captiva Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Mary Culver Home | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Caritas Connections Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Junior Golf Foundation of Greater St Louis | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Webster-Rock Hill Ministries | $300 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Circle Fund
- How much does The Circle Fund give?
- The Circle Fund reported 8 grants totaling $47,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Circle Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Religion (25%), Food & Nutrition (3%).
- Who are The Circle Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Marian Middle School ($116k), Mary Queen of Peace Catholic Church ($42k), Nerinx Hall High School ($35k).
- Does The Circle Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Circle Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Circle Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Moneta Group Charitable Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Circle Fund based?
- The Circle Fund is based in MO.
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