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CIRCADIUM

CIRCADIUM (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,314 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($20,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$258k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$102k
Net assets
$19k
4/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Circadium does

Mission

The mission of Circadium is to provide students with professional training in contemporary circus, and to prepare them for work in circus and related performing arts fields.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide secondary education and training programs related to the circus arts for students.

    $197,524 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $197,524.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($52k) Expenses 100 ($14k) Net assets 100 ($34k)2018 Revenue 388 ($201k) Expenses 1486 ($207k) Net assets 81 ($28k)2019 Revenue 580 ($300k) Expenses 2324 ($324k) Net assets -6 ($-1898)2020 Revenue 909 ($471k) Expenses 3131 ($437k) Net assets 93 ($32k)2021 Revenue 763 ($395k) Expenses 2828 ($395k) Net assets 95 ($32k)2022 Revenue 551 ($285k) Expenses 2498 ($349k) Net assets -91 ($-30812)2023 Revenue 521 ($270k) Expenses 2245 ($313k) Net assets 35 ($12k)2025 Revenue 499 ($258k) Expenses 1802 ($251k) Net assets 55 ($19k)
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Revenue (499)Expenses (1802)Net assets (55)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $75k to $195k (+161%).

$34k
$28k
$37k
$65k
$63k
$75k
$195k
$19k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

42% of CIRCADIUM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
’17
−$6k
’18
−$24k
’19
$34k
’20
$543
’21
−$63k
’22
−$43k
’23
$7k
’25
0.7
months of
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.

2018201920202021202220232025
Listed8111013111010
Joined·+6+2+3+3+4·
No longer listed·33055·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $3k → $25k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 CIRCADIUM’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

CIRCADIUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

83% 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 CIRCADIUM.

20%
largest funder
52%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 78% · 2021 100% · 2022 63% · 2023 50% — 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

25% of CIRCADIUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

56% of CIRCADIUM'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 $45k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 5 states.

MI
NY
PA
MD
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CIRCADIUM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding CIRCADIUM receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.

Federal$20k
grants $20kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$20k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like CIRCADIUM

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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 17%Fundraising 5%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CIRCADIUM: 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 CIRCADIUM?
CIRCADIUM (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,314 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($20,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CIRCADIUM have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $102,314 in grants to CIRCADIUM, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CIRCADIUM?
The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CIRCADIUM find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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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