New York · Nonprofit
CIRCLE UP RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ARTS
CIRCLE UP RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ARTS (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ($10,000). 0 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
- $408k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $113k
What Circle Up Restorative Justice Arts does
Mission
The circle keepers is a brooklyn-based non-profit organization. We dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline by training youth organizers as restorative justice practitioners, participatory action researchers and socially conscious activists. By centering the lived experiences of youth leaders, we promote peacemaking through cultural and educational community organizing that heal the harms of racial segregation in schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization's primary program service is to advance educational justice and community well-being by developing youth leaders and implementing restorative practices in schools and communities. The organization provides fellowships, workshops, youth conferences, and organizing programs that train young people in restorative justice, peer mediation, participatory action research, and community advocacy. Through these efforts, the organization works to replace punitive discipline policies and criminalization in schools with healing-centered, restorative approaches that honor the dignity and leadership of youth and their communities.
$266,637 spentof which $35,691 as grants$89,845 earned by the program82% of program spendingThe organization administers multiple fellowship, youth leadership, and community engagement programs that provide stipends to individuals in furtherance of its peace, justice, and youth development mission. These programs include: the circle keepers fellowship, which supports youth trained in restorative justice practices; sounds of justice and joy, a program integrating arts and advocacy; the peace & justice youth conference, which convenes youth around themes of equity and social change; workshops providing community education and skill-building; the whose voice? Our voice ypar (youth participatory action research) fellowship, which trains youth in community-based research and advocacy; the dignity in schools youth leadership fellowship, supporting student leaders advancing educational justice; the sunset park trie coalition 2025, a community coalition initiative; sun seeker mwke, a program supporting youth wellness and community engagement; dignity in schools student organizing, which supports youth in building power within their schools and communities; and the district 39 peer mediators fellowship, which trains student peer mediators in conflict resolution and restorative…
$60,311 spent$19,935 earned by the program18% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $326,948.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $55k to $122k (+123%).
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: 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of CIRCLE UP RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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
Martin Urbach
Executive director
Board chair
Denisha Jones
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
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 UP RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ARTS’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 UP RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ARTS'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. $10k 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 UP RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ARTS has grown faster 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 UP RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ARTS
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
94% 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 UP RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ARTS: 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 UP RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ARTS?
- CIRCLE UP RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ARTS (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ($10,000). 0 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 UP RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to CIRCLE UP RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ARTS.
- Who is the largest funder of CIRCLE UP RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ARTS?
- Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc 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 UP RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ARTS 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), 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