California · Nonprofit
CIRCUIT RIDER COMMUNITY SERVICES
CIRCUIT RIDER COMMUNITY SERVICES (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $305,232 to it, the largest being California ReLeaf ($104,999). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $848k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $305k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Circuit Rider Community Services does
Mission
To empower individuals from all backgrounds to improve their own lives, the lives of others, and the environment we share.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In fy2024-25, circuit rider's environmental crews employed 18 young adults and carried out over 24 projects, lasting from one day to multiple months per project, in the following areas:- fire fuels management for defensible space creation and roadside clearing/egress- watershed and stream restorations projects, including invasive plant removal, native species planting, and project monitoring- stream maintenance services to improve native habitat and flood conveyance- vegetated bioswale and low impact development structure maintenance- native plant ecological landscapingmany circuit rider crew members went on to continue their education at local colleges and several obtained employment with partner agencies including sonoma county water agency, city of santa rosa, city of healdsburg and town of widsor.circuit rider provides year round job training to young adults through projects that benefit the environment and the community.
$429,153 spent$313,784 earned by the program54% of program spendingVista academy: juvenile justice alternative to detention program:circuit rider operates sonoma county's first and only alternative to detention evening reporting center for court-ordered youth. These youth participate in numerous evidence-based, pro-social development opportunities including the art (aggression replacement training)curriculum, structured to assist juvenile offenders to develop ethical values and gain skills that reduce the likelihood of re-arrest and recidivism. The evidence-based curricula utilized by circuit rider's multi-faceted and trauma-informed program is recognized by the sonoma county upstream investments portfolio initiative.100% of participants completed 10 weeks of art and the post-measure "skillstreaming checklist"100% of these participants reported an increase in beginning social skills100% reported an increase in skills dealing with feelings100% reported an increase in skills for dealing with aggression100% reported an increase in skills for dealing with stress100% reported an increase in planning skills
$337,541 spent$314,554 earned by the program42% of program spendingWindsor wheels: volunteer driver program: circuit rider operates the only volunteer driver program in the windsor and north santa rosa area,allowing local seniors the dignity to age-in-place. In fy2024-25, circuit rider provided 408 rides to low income seniors in santa rosa and windsor.
$24,532 spent$21,242 earned by the program3% of program spendingCareer exploration services: in partnership with sonoma county office of education (scoe), circuit rider provided career exploration services and life skills development to students at headwaters academy, an alternative high school. Youth served in fy2024-25 12 students.
$10,878 spent$18,000 earned by the program1% of program spendingSonomaworks: job search services program: all sonomaworks clients have school aged children who, during the covid-19 pandemic, were either at home or learning remotely. Due to the covid-19 pandemic, the county did not require welfare-to-work clients to participate in sonomaworks which has resulted in fewer participants actively engaging in the program.our fy2024-25 numbers are:job search services (jss): 4 referrals received- 2 of 4 (50%) attended- 2 of 2 (100%) who attended gained employment
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $802,104.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.7M to $1.5M (−15%).
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: 2017 79% · 2018 59% · 2019 66% · 2020 14% · 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of CIRCUIT RIDER COMMUNITY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (55% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Amy Ricard
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $69k → $29k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 CIRCUIT RIDER COMMUNITY SERVICES’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
CIRCUIT RIDER COMMUNITY SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 CIRCUIT RIDER COMMUNITY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 44% · 2022 91% · 2023 61% — 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
60% of CIRCUIT RIDER COMMUNITY SERVICES's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.
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
81% of CIRCUIT RIDER COMMUNITY SERVICES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
CIRCUIT RIDER COMMUNITY SERVICES's revenue fell 15% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,526 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CIRCUIT RIDER COMMUNITY SERVICES
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CIRCUIT RIDER COMMUNITY SERVICES: 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 CIRCUIT RIDER COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- CIRCUIT RIDER COMMUNITY SERVICES (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $305,232 to it, the largest being California ReLeaf ($104,999). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CIRCUIT RIDER COMMUNITY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $305,232 in grants to CIRCUIT RIDER COMMUNITY SERVICES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CIRCUIT RIDER COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- California ReLeaf is the largest funder on record, with $104,999 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CIRCUIT RIDER COMMUNITY SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 11 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing