Oregon · Nonprofit
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS (Oregon) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,280,006 to it, the largest being THE BOESCHEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($580,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $421k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Circle of Friends does
Mission
Mission statementto provide friends and resources that promote equal access andopportunity for sisters' underserved children and youth to develop lifeskills, social skills, academic success, and individual talents.vision statementCircle of Friends offers every sisters' child or youth in need withtrained mentors who provide consistent, long-term, meaningfulrelationships. Working collaboratively with sisters school district,community service providers, and parents, Circle of Friendsdevelops and implements inclusive plans and support systems formentees. Circle of Friends works to provide children and youthwith positive experiences and opportunities that contribute to theircurrent and future success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our mission is to provide vulnerable, at-risk, youth in our community with a loving, caring, nurturing and sustained relationship with an adult mentor. Our volunteer mentors introduce and reinforce positive life skills that will enable children in our program to realize their full potential as healthy and productive members of our community. The primary service is to provide one-on-one mentoring for children in need of positive and supportive adult role model relationships. These children are most seriously at-risk for school failure, potential substance abuse and criminal behavior. Research has shown that the single most important protective factor in a child's life is building resiliency through a long-term, consistent, relationship with a caring adult.
$352,042 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $352,042.
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.
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 $655k to $938k (+43%).
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.
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.
Board chair
Lisa Gies
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $28k → $102k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 FRIENDS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 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 FRIENDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 52% · 2019 58% · 2020 52% · 2021 67% · 2022 26% · 2023 25% — 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
60% of CIRCLE OF FRIENDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $303k 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.
Organizations like CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 FRIENDS: 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 FRIENDS?
- CIRCLE OF FRIENDS (Oregon) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,280,006 to it, the largest being THE BOESCHEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($580,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CIRCLE OF FRIENDS have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,280,006 in grants to CIRCLE OF FRIENDS, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CIRCLE OF FRIENDS?
- THE BOESCHEN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $580,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CIRCLE OF FRIENDS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing