Tennessee · Nonprofit
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $171,447 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($70,594). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $988k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $171k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Circle of Friends Christian Preschool does
Mission
Childcare provider
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide preschool programs of excellence to young children between the ages of 2 1/2 and 5 years old.
$605,118 spent$633,110 earned by the program98% of program spendingSpeech therapy services and other assistance provided to preschool children at no cost.
$13,600 spentof which $2,600 as grants2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $618,718.
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 2019 to 2020, from $644k to $2.2M (+238%).
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: 2021 14% · 2022 26% · 2023 25% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of CIRCLE OF FRIENDS CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Martha Kaiser
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $65k → $37.
4 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL’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 OF FRIENDS CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 FRIENDS CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 54% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of CIRCLE OF FRIENDS CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $171k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 FRIENDS CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CIRCLE OF FRIENDS CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CIRCLE OF FRIENDS CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL: 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 CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL?
- CIRCLE OF FRIENDS CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $171,447 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($70,594). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CIRCLE OF FRIENDS CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $171,447 in grants to CIRCLE OF FRIENDS CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CIRCLE OF FRIENDS CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $70,594 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CIRCLE OF FRIENDS CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 4 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