Attach to Form 990 or Form 990-EZ.
Information about Schedule A (Form 990 or 990-EZ) and its instructions is at www.irs.gov/form990.
| (i)Name of supported organization | (ii) EIN | (iii) Type of organization (described on lines 1- 9 above or IRC section (see instructions)) | (iv) Is the organization listed in your governing document? | (v) Amount of monetary support (see instructions) | (vi) Amount of other support (see instructions) | |
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| Yes | No | |||||
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Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2010 | (b) 2011 | (c) 2012 | (d) 2013 | (e) 2014 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grants.") .... | 21,039 | 75,575 | 105,885 | 174,251 | 323,995 | 700,745 |
| 2 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf....... | 0 | |||||
| 3 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge.. | 0 | |||||
| 4 | Total. Add lines 1 through 3 | 21,039 | 75,575 | 105,885 | 174,251 | 323,995 | 700,745 |
| 5 | The portion of total contributions by each person (other than a governmental unit or publicly supported organization) included on line 1 that exceeds 2% of the amount shown on line 11, column (f).. | 0 | |||||
| 6 | Public support. Subtract line 5 from line 4. | 700,745 | |||||
Calendar year
(or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2010 | (b) 2011 | (c) 2012 | (d) 2013 | (e) 2014 | (f) Total | |
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| 7 | Amounts from line 4.. | 21,039 | 75,575 | 105,885 | 174,251 | 323,995 | 700,745 |
| 8 | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources... | 17 | 17 | ||||
| 9 | Net income from unrelated business activities, whether or not the business is regularly carried on.. | ||||||
| 10 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.).. | 750 | 750 | ||||
| 11 | Total support Add lines 7 through 10. | 701,512 | |||||
Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2010 | (b) 2011 | (c) 2012 | (d) 2013 | (e) 2014 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grants.") . | ||||||
| 2 | Gross receipts from admissions, merchandise sold or services performed, or facilities furnished in any activity that is related to the organization's tax-exempt purpose...... | ||||||
| 3 | Gross receipts from activities that are not an unrelated trade or business under section 513.. | ||||||
| 4 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf... | ||||||
| 5 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge.. | ||||||
| 6 | Total. Add lines 1 through 5. | ||||||
| 7a | Amounts included on lines 1, 2, and 3 received from disqualified persons... | ||||||
| b | Amounts included on lines 2 and 3 received from other than disqualified persons that exceed the greater of $5,000 or 1% of the amount on line 13 for the year. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 7a and 7b.. | ||||||
| 8 | Public support (Subtract line 7c from line 6.) | ||||||
Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2010 | (b) 2011 | (c) 2012 | (d) 2013 | (e) 2014 | (f) Total | |
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| 9 | Amounts from line 6... | ||||||
| 10a | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources.. | ||||||
| b | Unrelated business taxable income (less section 511 taxes) from businesses acquired after June 30, 1975. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 10a and 10b. | ||||||
| 11 | Net income from unrelated business activities not included in line 10b, whether or not the business is regularly carried on. | ||||||
| 12 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.) .. | ||||||
| 13 | Total support. (Add lines 9, 10c, 11, and 12.).. | ||||||
| Section A - Adjusted Net Income | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Net short-term capital gain | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Other gross income (see instructions) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Add lines 1 through 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Depreciation and depletion | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Portion of operating expenses paid or incurred for production or collection of gross income or for management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for production of income (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Other expenses (see instructions) | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Adjusted Net Income (subtract lines 5, 6 and 7 from line 4) | 8 | ||||
| Section B - Minimum Asset Amount | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Aggregate fair market value of all non-exempt-use assets (see instructions for short tax year or assets held for part of year): | 1 | ||||
| a | Average monthly value of securities | 1a | ||||
| b | Average monthly cash balances | 1b | ||||
| c | Fair market value of other non-exempt-use assets | 1c | ||||
| d | Total (add lines 1a, 1b, and 1c) | 1d | ||||
| e | Discount claimed for blockage or other factors (explain in detail in Part VI): | |||||
| 2 | Acquisition indebtedness applicable to non-exempt use assets | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Subtract line 2 from line 1d | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Cash deemed held for exempt use. Enter 1-1/2% of line 3 (for greater amount, see instructions). | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Net value of non-exempt-use assets (subtract line 4 from line 3) | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Multiply line 5 by .035 | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Minimum Asset Amount (add line 7 to line 6) | 8 | ||||
| Section C - Distributable Amount | Current Year | |||||
| 1 | Adjusted net income for prior year (from Section A, line 8, Column A) | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Enter 85% of line 1 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Minimum asset amount for prior year (from Section B, line 8, Column A) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Enter greater of line 2 or line 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Income tax imposed in prior year | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Distributable Amount. Subtract line 5 from line 4, unless subject to emergency temporary reduction (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Check here if the current year is the organization's first as a non-functionally-integrated Type III supporting organization (see instructions) | |||||
| Section D - Distributions | Current Year | |
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| 1 Amounts paid to supported organizations to accomplish exempt purposes | ||
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2
Amounts paid to perform activity that directly furthers exempt purposes of supported organizations, in excess of income from activity |
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| 3 Administrative expenses paid to accomplish exempt purposes of supported organizations | ||
| 4 Amounts paid to acquire exempt-use assets | ||
| 5 Qualified set-aside amounts (prior IRS approval required) | ||
| 6 Other distributions (describe in Part VI). See instructions | ||
| 7Total annual distributions. Add lines 1 through 6. | ||
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8
Distributions to attentive supported organizations to which the organization is responsive (provide details in Part VI). See instructions |
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| 9 Distributable amount for 2014 from Section C, line 6 | ||
| 10 Line 8 amount divided by Line 9 amount | ||
| Section E - Distribution Allocations (see instructions) |
(i) Excess Distributions |
(ii) Underdistributions Pre-2014 |
(iii) Distributable Amount for 2014 |
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1
Distributable amount for 2014 from Section C, line 6 |
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2
Underdistributions, if any, for years prior to 2014 (reasonable cause required--see instructions) |
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| 3 Excess distributions carryover, if any, to 2014: | ||||
| a From 2009.......X | ||||
| b From 2010.......X | ||||
| c From 2011.......X | ||||
| d From 2012.......X | ||||
| e From 2013....... | ||||
| fTotal of lines 3a through e | ||||
| g Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| h Applied to 2014 distributable amount | ||||
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Carryover from 2009 not applied (see instructions) |
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| j Remainder. Subtract lines 3g, 3h, and 3i from 3f. | ||||
| 4Distributions for 2014 from Section D, line 7: | ||||
| $ | ||||
| a Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| b Applied to 2014 distributable amount | ||||
| c Remainder. Subtract lines 4a and 4b from 4. | ||||
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5
Remaining underdistributions for years prior to 2014, if any. Subtract lines 3g and 4a from line 2 (if amount greater than zero, see instructions) |
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6
Remaining underdistributions for 2014. Subtract lines 3h and 4b from line 1 (if amount greater than zero, see instructions) |
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7 Excess distributions carryover to 2015. Add lines 3j and 4c. |
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| 8 Breakdown of line 7: | ||||
| a From 2010.......X | ||||
| b From 2011.......X | ||||
| c From 2012.......X | ||||
| d From 2013....... | ||||
| e From 2014....... | ||||
| Facts And Circumstances Test |
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| Return Reference | Explanation |
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| Software ID: | 14000265 |
| Software Version: | 2014v5.0 |
Attach to Form 990 or 990-EZ.
Information about Schedule O (Form 990 or 990-EZ) and its instructions is at| Return Reference | Explanation |
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| Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: Other Program Services Description | OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Anchal project merges design, business and education to empower marginalized and exploited women living in India. Anchal Project shares Circle of Sisterhood's belief that educating women is central to poverty alleviation and sustainable development. Anchal manifests this conviction through a multi-faceted program that provides commercial sex workers in India the tools for personal empowerment and economic independence. Anchal partners with establised NGO's in India to offer design and vocational training in textiles, fair wages through safe employment, health services and monthly educational workshops. Anchal currently employees over 50 artisans, ultimately giving the women opportunity to rediscover their dignity and rise from exploitation and poverty. Our $5,000 grant will support 12 monthly educational workshops and a 7 day intense traing workshop for women. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: Girls for a Change (GFC) is a national organization that empowers girls from low-income communities to become agents of social change. GFC inspires girls to have the voice, ability and problem-solving capacity to become decision-makers, create visionary change and realize their full potential. Girls Action Team, GFC's conerstone program, is designed to give young women a leadership role in their community. A part of the team, girls create, lead and implement a social change project over a 14 week period under the guidance of two adult women coaches. Girls Action Teams have demonstateed an overwhelmingly positive impact on participants' academic achievements and career development. Our $5,000 grant will support expansion of the Girls Action Team program in Richmond, Virginia. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 6: Like the Circle of Sisterhood, Girls inc. believes that all girls deserve an opportunity to pursue their educational dreams. Because of their congruent missions, Girls, Inc. is the recipient of a $5,000 grant in support of their Smart College and Career Planning program. This program includes Lunch Brunch programs where girls interact with professional women from fields such as public health, medicene, computer software, politics, fundraising and education. These women encourage girls to pursue an education and to set big goals for their future. Together we are empowering today's girls to grow into health, educated and independent young women. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 7: Heshima Kenya specializes in identifying and protecting unaccompanied and separated refugee children and youth, especially girls, young women and their children living in Nairobi, Kenya. By providing shelter, eduacation and community outreach services, Heshima Kenya is empowering this population to live healthy lives. With long term support these girls and young women become catalysts for strengthening networks creating sustainable change within the local and global communiites. In 2014, Heshoima Kenya will provide 80 girls and young women with access to education and livelihood support through its Girls' Empowerment Project. Our $5,000 grant will support this program, which offers the holistic education and skills these girls and young women need to empower them to reach their potential. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 8: Lift Up Africa is a U.S. based nonprofit with an extensive network of partners and projects in East Africa. Its mission is to connect knowledge, resources and needs. The HELGA rescue center provides a safe haven for rescued girls from early marriage, to ensure retention and participation in their education and reconciliation with their families. The 40 girls at HELGA will not only benefit from gaining their education and escaping oppression, the whole community will become enriched through the new educated adults that have completed their studies through a sustainable rescue center. Our $5,000 grant supports 10 young girls at HELGA for a year. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 9: Malini Foundation is a nonprofit social enterprise that advances the interests of girls and women in Sri Lanka throguh quality education, empowerment and by bringing their voices to the international community. Malini Foundation seeks to nurture a positive perspective of educating girls in communities where girls' education is not valued. The foundation's primary program is the Malini Home for Gifted Orphaned Girls, where girls with no other options for care are provided a safe, healthy and sustainable living environment. Our $5,000 grant will support four girls entering the home. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 10: The EKARI Foundation's mission is to provide the resources necessary for the poor and excluded to emerge from poverty on their own. EKARI believes that supporting families with small businesses and supporting students with education equals sustainable and empowered families supporting sustainable and empowered students.Our grant in 2012 provided six girls in Malawi with tuition, boarding fees, meal program, uniforms, transport home during holidays, basics necessities such as soap, feminine products, notebooks and an allowance for school needs/supplies. We are please to continue our support of the EKARI Foundation through the awarding of a second grant of $5,000. This grant will support one year of school for seven girls including the six girls we funded through the 2012-2013 school year. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 11: Hope for Justice's (formerly Transitions global) mission is to restore young girls through the power of a dream. Hope for Justice provide comprehensive restorative aftercare for Cambodian girls rescued from sex trafficking. Each girl receives personalized care to heal her past and provide opportunities for her future. A girl who finds her home at Hope for Justice finds new beginning. She finds hope, and with holistic trauma therapy, life skills and sustainable career training, she finds a dream for her future. Hope for Justice has been awarded a $5,000 grant to support the Shine Career School program, which provides a rigorous education curriculum in a trauma-informed environment. In addition to core classes, girls receive vocational training opportunities, life skills training and enrichment classes, allowing them to explore their creativity while pursuing their dreams and, ultimately, helping them gain sustainable job skills. The Shine Career School tutoring program will supplement, extend and undergird what the girls learn in the public school system and help them to become successful students, lifelong learners and high school graduates. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 12: Women's Institute for Secondary Education and Research's(WISER)mission is the social empowerment of underprivileged girls by improving health and education. WISER removes the gender-based violence found in many Kenyan schools and has psychosocial support and leadership training built into the curriculum at its free boarding school. Through its unique and holistic model, ISER eliminates the root causes of underachievement of girls. By creating a gender-safe space where girls have everything they need (food, accommodation, clean drinking water, health care, books, uniforms, school supplies and samitary pads) they are able to reach their full potential. Our $5,000 will help fund teacher salaries at the WISER school. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 13: Bead for Life's mission is to eradicate extreme poverty by creating bridges of understanding between impoverished Africans and concerned citizens of the world. This grant is funding the secondary education of 6 girls in Northern Uganda - tuition, school supplies, mattress, uniform, staff support and empowerment activites. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 14: Many Hopes builds homes and schools for girls and boys in Kenya and then creates local business to sustain them. One of Many Hopes' founding principles is the belief that loving and educating those who have suffered the worst of injustice will enable them to defeat the causes of what they have endured. They identify, rescue and raise in a family environment girls in some of the most vulnerable conditions. They provide often desperately needed medical attention, implement a nutritious diet and enroll them in school (when of age). We share Many Hopes' belief that education is the driving force of empowerment for girls and change for their community and country. To this end, our grant will support the cost of an academic tutor for the girls currently in Many Hopes' homes so that they receive ample support in their academic pursuits. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process | The Board receives a copy of the Federal Form 990 and all the schedules. All of the board's questions are answered to the Board's satisfaction before filing. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available | Copies of the audited financial statements and the form 990 are made available upon request. The Form 990 is available on Guidestar - a third party website. |
| Software ID: | 14000265 |
| Software Version: | 2014v5.0 |