Connecticut · Nonprofit
CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC
CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,431,084 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($625,564). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 75
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Circle of Care for Families of Children With Cancer Inc does
Mission
Circle of care for families of children provides practical, emotional, and financial support from their day of diagnosis, through treatment and beyond. Our programs and services address the unique and challenging non-medical needs of pediatric cancer because we know children and young adults need more than medicine to heal.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mission Circle of Care provides practical, emotional, and financial support to families and their children, adolescents, and young adults, facing a cancer diagnosis. We believe that the path to healing extends beyond medicine and we offer services tailored to address the distinct and demanding, non-medical challenges families encounter throughout their entire journey with pediatric cancer. Our vision is to ensure that no family faces the financial or emotional burden of pediatric cancer alone. we are committed to providing comprehensive, coordinated support to relieve the emotional strain and financial toxicity families face so that they can focus on caring for their child and their family. Our CARE model is meticulously crafted and is based on three core pillars of support: emotional, practical, and financial. these pillars serve as the cornerstone of our unwavering dedication to being a steadfast resource for families, not just during the treatment phase, but throughout their entire journey--from the moment of diagnosis and beyond. Practical: The challenges associated with caring for a child with pediatric cancer are unfamiliar, complex, and can be overwhelming. Having guidance…
$1,281,327 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,281,327.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.3M to $1.5M (+20%).
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.
50% of CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $123k → $576k.
18 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 funders by total. 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 OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
41% 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 OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 27% · 2019 17% · 2020 38% · 2021 31% · 2022 22% · 2023 17% — 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
49% of CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
64% of CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER 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 OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC?
- CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,431,084 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($625,564). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $3,431,084 in grants to CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $625,564 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 75 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