Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS PRESCHOOL AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS PRESCHOOL AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $809 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($809). 1 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
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $809
- Net assets
- $911k
What Circle of Friends Preschool and Children's Center Inc does
Mission
To develop self-esteem through sharing and exploration in a loving, safe and nurturing environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our program offers a variety of experiences in a safe, nurturing and stimulating environment which promote social, emotional, physical and intellectual growth. The focus of our discovery-based curriculum is learning through play. We focus on children as separate individuals helping them to develop to their greatest potential as independent, enthusiastic learners. An open structured environment offers learning centers which allow children to make choices in a process-oriented program. We seek to encourage the creative energies of children. Their natural curiosity and desire to make sense of the world are used to motivate them to become involved in learning activities. Circle of friends preschool offers a relaxed, unpressured atmosphere. Our goal is to develop self-esteem through sharing and exploration in a loving, safe and nurturing environment.
$1,821,562 spent$1,884,735 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,821,562.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $2.3M (+109%).
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: 2020 17% · 2021 12% · 2022 16% · 2023 17% · 2024 13% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of CIRCLE OF FRIENDS PRESCHOOL AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $114 → $184.
1 of 1 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 PRESCHOOL AND CHILDREN'S CENTER 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CIRCLE OF FRIENDS PRESCHOOL AND CHILDREN'S CENTER 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $809 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 PRESCHOOL AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC's revenue grew 58% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CIRCLE OF FRIENDS PRESCHOOL AND CHILDREN'S CENTER 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CIRCLE OF FRIENDS PRESCHOOL AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC?
- CIRCLE OF FRIENDS PRESCHOOL AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $809 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($809). 1 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 PRESCHOOL AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $809 in grants to CIRCLE OF FRIENDS PRESCHOOL AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CIRCLE OF FRIENDS PRESCHOOL AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $809 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CIRCLE OF FRIENDS PRESCHOOL AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 1 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