Georgia · Nonprofit
Circle of Friends Inc
Circle of Friends Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,709 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($45,250). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $443k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $78k
- Net assets
- $539k
What Circle of Friends Inc does
Mission
Enhancing the lives of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through social engagement, supportative employment and attainable housing.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
CoF continued to operate a coffee shop that is in the student center of a local community college. This center also serves as a co-working site for the countys economic development center. The Circuit Cafe employs adults with IDD, a cafe manager, and many volunteers, fostering intergenerational relationships. CoF began work on a second location, Flourish Cafe, which will be a place for our community members to gather and grow. Flourish Cafe will offer supportive employment opportunities for adults with IDD alongside typical peers and volunteers to provide an integrated employment setting. The space will be used after hours for social events, wellness classes, and CoF meetings.
$191,020 spent$34,972 earned by the program93% of program spendingCoF held monthly large group and weekly small group activities for social engagement for adults with IDD, typical peers, and older adults to interact. Large group activities involved 50+ individuals, and small group activities included 5-20 individuals. Additionally, CoF offered Cooking Classes where our neurodiverse friends learned cooking skills from local chefs and COF hosted a community garden and a Garden Club where local members of the Farm Bureau taught gardening skills. Both activities provided participants with opportunities for volunteers, and corporate sponsors to mentor our neurodiverse friends. These social activities provide an opportunity for adults with IDD and others to be included in the life of the community, and to feel a sense of belonging. People who attend have an opportunity to make lasting friendships and families support one another.
$13,975 spent7% of program spendingThe third strand of the CoF mission is to develop supportive attainable housing for adults with IDD, typical peers, and older adults to live in their own community. CoF leaders have developed relationships with county and state officials and community leaders to bring awareness of the difficulties adults with IDD have in attaining affordable housing. CoF leaders continue research in this area that will contribute to the community design
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $204,995.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $73k to $617k (+741%).
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: 2023 7% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of Circle of Friends Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $129 → $23k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 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 of Friends Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
59% 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 Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 59% · 2022 84% · 2023 89% — 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
33% of Circle of Friends Inc's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 40% 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
59% of Circle of Friends Inc'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 $32k that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Circle of Friends 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Circle of Friends 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 Friends Inc?
- Circle of Friends Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,709 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($45,250). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Circle of Friends Inc have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $77,709 in grants to Circle of Friends Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Circle of Friends Inc?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $45,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Circle of Friends Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 10 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