North Carolina · Nonprofit
Circle De Luz Inc
Circle De Luz Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $633,758 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($132,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $396k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $634k
- Net assets
- $385k
What Circle De Luz Inc does
Mission
Circle de Luz profoundly empowers and advocates for young Latinas through extensive mentoring, comprehensive programming, integrated services, and scholarship funds for further education.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Fall and Spring Programming expenses are our largest expenses. This includes programs for all cohorts, our study group initiative, Community events, Adelante - career and college exploration, and all student programming including our Run Big Dream 5k and State of the Circle, Graduation and our cohort Welcome Ceremony. In addition, our family resource support. We provide referrals to families for health care, mental health, furniture, food, clothing, and professional development support. Miles traveled - each year, our case manager travels thousands of miles to support students and families in their homes, schools, and communities.
$142,055 spent$3,500 earned by the program53% of program spendingOther programming expense including payroll for team members.
$102,903 spent39% of program spendingAward scholarships to our class of 2025 graduating class and other eligible students
$20,818 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $265,776.
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 2021 to 2022, from $185k to $287k (+56%).
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: 2022 91% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Circle De Luz 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. 3 of the last 10 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.
Board chair
Lina Varela-Gonzlez
Chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $19k → $69k.
6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 De Luz 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 De Luz Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
51% 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 De Luz Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 64% · 2019 67% · 2020 35% · 2021 51% · 2022 35% · 2023 29% — 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
50% of Circle De Luz Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
58% of Circle De Luz Inc's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $199k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 De Luz Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,238 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,238 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like Circle De Luz 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Circle De Luz 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 De Luz Inc?
- Circle De Luz Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $633,758 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($132,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Circle De Luz Inc have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $633,758 in grants to Circle De Luz Inc, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Circle De Luz Inc?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $132,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Circle De Luz 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 23 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing