Circle of Sisterhood Foundation Inc
Belmont, NC · EIN 27-2393582. Reported 46 grants totalling $749,000 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Circle of Sisterhood Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B90) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 26% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 8% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $132,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buildon Inc | Stamford, CT | $197,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Buildon Inc | $132,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Central Asia Institute | Bozeman, MT | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cooperative for Education | Cincinnati, OH | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mooncatcher Project Inc | Schenectady, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Himalayan Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Creamos Norte | Scarborough, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Engage Globally | Asheville, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Even Ground Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Flying Kites Inc | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Foundation for Hope and Health in Haiti | Uniondale, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of Tilonia Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Girl Up Initiative Uganda | Goleta, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Girls Gotta Run Foundation Incorporated | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Girls Incorporated of Greater Indianapolis | Indianapolis, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Her Future Coalition Inc | St Augustine, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| International Literacy and Development | Midlothian, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kakenyas Dream | Arlington, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kenya Connect Inc | Elkridge, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Limitless Horizons Ixil Inc | Roslindale, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lotus Outreach | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Maia | Denver, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mali Health Organizing Project Inc | Durham, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nepal Youth Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Horizons House | Littleton, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nurturing Minds Inc | Newtonville, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Onevillage Partners | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rain for the Sahel and Sahara Inc | Portsmouth, NH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Razias Ray of Hope Foundation | Wellesley Hls, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Real Humanitarian | Providence, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Remember Niger Coalition | Holland, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sambhali US Inc | Takoma Park, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Street Child US | Sacramento, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sunsar Maya Inc | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Surge for Water Inc | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Safe House Education Fund | Fairfax, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Sisterhood Is Global Institute Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Too Young to Wed | Peekskill, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Women's Global Education Project | Oak Park, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Womens Institute for Secondary Education and Research-Wiser-Intl | Durham, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Youth Advocate Programs Inc | Harrisburg, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
4 of 41 (10%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Buildon Inc
THESE ARE AMOUNTS PAID TO BUILDON FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SCHOOLS. - Central Asia Institute
FUND THE ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF FOUR COMMUNITY-BASED EDUCATIONAL (CBE) CENTERS/CLASSROOMS FOR APPROXIMATELY 120 CHILDREN, PRIMARILY GIRLS, FROM NORTHERN AFGHANISTAN WHO ARE CURRENTLY OUT OF SCHOOL - Engage Globally
SUPPORT CONSTRUCTION OF A VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTER AND THE ESTABLISHMENT FOUR, WOMEN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESSES TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR TWENTY GIRLS AGES 12-15 WITH THE GOAL OF CREATING LOCAL ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES THAT REDUCE CHILD MARRIAGE AND RISKY URBAN MIGRATION - Friends of Tilonia Inc
SUPPORT 260 GIRLS AGED 6-18 FROM RURAL, MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES AT THE KALIYACHAK GIRLS' LEARNING CENTRE, EMPOWERING THEM THROUGH EDUCATION, VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR ARTISAN ENTERPRISES/EMPLOYMENT - Her Future Coalition
PROVIDE SIX MONTHS OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND HOLISTIC SUPPORT SERVICES TO 50 SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AND HIGH-RISK WOMEN AND GIRLS - Canadian Humanitarian Organization for International Relief
SUPPORT A CHILD CENTERED NETWORK CENTER WHERE 26 GIRLS WILL RECEIVE ACADEMIC SUPPORT (TUITION, UNIFORMS, SUPPLIES) AND HAVE THEIR MOST VITAL NEEDS MET (MEDICAL, DENTAL, MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT, COUNSELING SUPPORT, MEALS) BREAKING THE CYCLE OF POVERTY FOR GIRLS, THEIR FAMILIES, AND THEIR COMMUNITIES AND OPENING THE PATH FOR SAFER AND MORE GENDER-EQUAL COMMUNITIES
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 38 of 41 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 12 | $242,000 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 12 | $174,000 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 13 | $184,000 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 9 | $149,000 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
32% of its giving went to organizations in Connecticut. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Connecticut.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Circle of Sisterhood Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 9 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 705 Wood Lily Drive, Belmont, NC, 28012.
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