North Carolina · Nonprofit
CIRCLE OF SISTERHOOD FOUNDATION INC
CIRCLE OF SISTERHOOD FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $569,316 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($255,045). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $419k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $569k
- Net assets
- $170k
What Circle of Sisterhood Foundation Inc does
Mission
Uplifting girls and women from poverty and oppression through education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grants - cofs is a granting foundation. Cofs accepts applications for grant dollars each year in march. In fy2024-2025, $80,000 was granted to eight organizations working in eight countries to remove barriers to education for girls and women. Through a detailed vetting process, finalists are awarded grants of $10,000 usd.
$222,365 spentof which $80,000 as grants76% of program spendingSchool build - through a school build program, cofs works with an implementing partner to fund the construction of schools for communities in need of a structure conducive to learning. Since 2013, over 40 schools have been constructed in seven countries - guatemala, haiti, malawi, mali, nepal, nicaragua, and senegal.
$69,000 spentof which $69,000 as grants24% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $291,365.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $430k to $370k (−14%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CIRCLE OF SISTERHOOD FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Virginia Carroll
Executive director
Board chair
Susan Markham
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $29k → $129k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CIRCLE OF SISTERHOOD FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CIRCLE OF SISTERHOOD FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CIRCLE OF SISTERHOOD FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 57% · 2019 57% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 56% · 2023 75% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
75% of CIRCLE OF SISTERHOOD FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
52% of CIRCLE OF SISTERHOOD FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $272k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $297k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CIRCLE OF SISTERHOOD FOUNDATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CIRCLE OF SISTERHOOD FOUNDATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CIRCLE OF SISTERHOOD FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CIRCLE OF SISTERHOOD FOUNDATION INC?
- CIRCLE OF SISTERHOOD FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $569,316 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($255,045). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CIRCLE OF SISTERHOOD FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $569,316 in grants to CIRCLE OF SISTERHOOD FOUNDATION INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CIRCLE OF SISTERHOOD FOUNDATION INC?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $255,045 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CIRCLE OF SISTERHOOD FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing