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CIRCLE OF FRIENDS MINISTRY INC

CIRCLE OF FRIENDS MINISTRY INC (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,538 to it, the largest being GIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($181,067). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$56k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$343k
Net assets
$176k
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Circle of Friends Ministry Inc does

Mission

Provide life skill and pre-vocation training, inclusion activities, and advocacy for adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Assisted young adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities learn skills vital for independent living; personal finance, hygiene, social behaviors, and food-handling while providing them with inclusive activities that helped build community connections and relationships through volunteer work and apprenticeship-type work that showcase vocation strengths and could lead to meaningful employment.

    $31,475 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $31,475.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($151k) Expenses 100 ($144k) Net assets 100 ($267k)2022 Revenue 104 ($158k) Expenses 115 ($166k) Net assets 97 ($259k)2023 Revenue 129 ($194k) Expenses 157 ($227k) Net assets 84 ($225k)2024 Revenue 92 ($140k) Expenses 141 ($203k) Net assets 61 ($162k)2025 Revenue 37 ($56k) Expenses 28 ($41k) Net assets 66 ($176k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (37)Expenses (28)Net assets (66)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $322k to $255k (−21%).

$366k
$355k
$322k
$255k
$208k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

76% of CIRCLE OF FRIENDS MINISTRY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,623 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$7k
’21
−$8k
’22
−$33k
’23
−$64k
’24
$14k
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Curtis Gibson

Chairman of the Board

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $17k → $40k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 MINISTRY 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 MINISTRY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

78% 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 MINISTRY INC.

53%
largest funder
85%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 80% · 2021 50% · 2022 40% · 2023 53% — 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

20% of CIRCLE OF FRIENDS MINISTRY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

53% of CIRCLE OF FRIENDS MINISTRY 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 $161k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Florida funders.

FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $181k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CIRCLE OF FRIENDS MINISTRY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin26% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−22% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Government funding CIRCLE OF FRIENDS MINISTRY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $208 on record.

State$208
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20
Top programs
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $208

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like CIRCLE OF FRIENDS MINISTRY 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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

67%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds CIRCLE OF FRIENDS MINISTRY INC?
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS MINISTRY INC (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,538 to it, the largest being GIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($181,067). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CIRCLE OF FRIENDS MINISTRY INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $342,538 in grants to CIRCLE OF FRIENDS MINISTRY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CIRCLE OF FRIENDS MINISTRY INC?
GIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $181,067 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CIRCLE OF FRIENDS MINISTRY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 9 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