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Illinois · Nonprofit
Circles and Ciphers (Illinois) is funded by 6 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $560,450 in grants to it, the largest being JULIAN GRACE FOUNDATION ($423,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Circles and Ciphers is better cushioned than half of the 5,357 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,357 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
The base broadened — 1 funders to 3 as grant income moved $500 → $172k.
From the IRS filings of Circles and Ciphers’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Circles and Ciphers leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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: 2019 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 71% · 2022 98% · 2023 93% · 2024 55% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Circles and Ciphers is locally rooted: 97% of its grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
18% of spending goes to programs.
27%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 6funders 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. view filing