New York · Nonprofit
CIRCLE SCHOOL
CIRCLE SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,467 to it, the largest being THE CITADEL FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $253k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $109k
What Circle School does
Mission
To provide the local community with a preschool that focuses on children's ability to develop friendships, cooperate with peers and teachers, follow directions, develop empathy, collaborate, problem solve, and approach new experiences and challenges with confidence. Our program provides a safe learning environment for children to grow and develop socially, emotionally, physically, and academically through a breadth of fun and engaging activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
We provide a preschool for children two, three and four years of age, monday through friday. Students are afforded ample free play with access to sensory, building, housekeeping, dramatic play, manipulatives, crafts and art supplies, fine motor materials such as playdoh, sand, cutting and writing. Each class spends time outdoors to aid in gross motor development such as climbing, swinging, and balancing, as well as the development of social skills such as turn taking and sharing. We provide a nut-free snack and water daily. The two-, three- and four-year-olds all participate in story time, songs and movement activities and additionally, the three- and four-year-olds participate in circle time which includes routine items such as weather and calendar reports along with activities that correlate with the unit of study (such as seasons, bears, dinosaurs, transportation, holidays, and colors). We maintain a high-quality education at affordable prices with the support of enrolled families. Family members assist in caring for the facility, donating supplies etc.
$133,714 spent$185,186 earned by the program82% of program spendingDiscovery club- afternoon enrichment classes for preschoolers such as wiggly worms gardening (growing seeds, digging, making a garden bed with stepping stones and birdhouses), movement (dance and yoga), super science (multi-sensory class where students explore, discover and answer questions about the world around them), creative caterpillars (artwork and crafts), and terrific tigers (sports; running, kicking, jumping, balancing and teamwork) provides children with age appropriate exploration of these various topics. Discovery club meets for 10 weeks in the fall and 10 weeks in the spring and is open to two- to five-year-olds.
$24,553 spent$5,770 earned by the program15% of program spendingSummer camp - lots of outdoor play, water play, arts and crafts, music, games, story time and snack time during the summer months, monday through friday mornings.
$4,053 spent$24,998 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $162,320.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $65k to $99k (+53%).
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: 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of CIRCLE SCHOOL’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 4 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.
Chief executive
Joanne Downey
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $240 → $727.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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 SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 69% — 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.
Where its funders are
CIRCLE SCHOOL draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $467 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 SCHOOL's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CIRCLE SCHOOL
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CIRCLE SCHOOL: 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 SCHOOL?
- CIRCLE SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,467 to it, the largest being THE CITADEL FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CIRCLE SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $18,467 in grants to CIRCLE SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CIRCLE SCHOOL?
- THE CITADEL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CIRCLE SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 5 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