Full-circle Learning Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954531367
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Grass Valley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5305754500
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $181,210
- Expenses
- $253,174
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TERESA LANGNESS PhD (President)
- FARIBA MAHJOUR (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- TERESA LANGNESS PhD (President)
- LILY T NING (PROGRAMS)
- RENE LOUISE SPRATTLING (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's mission is to help young people embrace their role as society's humanitarians and change agents. Driven by a belief that every child deserves the right to meaningful participation in society, program leaders have seen students plagued by poverty, immigration, war, natural disaster and various social ills transcend their problems by using various skills to become solution-givers. The methodology used to achieve the mission is an integrated education module that infuses character education, humanitarian service, the arts and conflict resolution into every academic learning unity.
What it reported doing in 2024
Full-circle learning, inc. (fcl) serves schools and non-governmental organizations around the world by training teachers, providing the fcl model/curriculum and ancillary materials, mentoring educators, and assisting in launching sites that promote integration and expansion of students' character strengths, academic excellence, artistic capacities and peace making skills in service to the global human family.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 91% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 81.5%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -39.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 81.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $206K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.