Missouri · Nonprofit
CIRCUS HARMONY
CIRCUS HARMONY (Missouri) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $710,942 to it, the largest being REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION ($287,905). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $631k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $711k
- Net assets
- $669k
What Circus Harmony does
Mission
Circus Harmony uses the teaching and performing of circus arts to build character and community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Core programsthe Circus Harmony showcase and teacher training program is a unique arts education and youth development program. This ongoing project includes the finding, training, and development of youth circus performers from different socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. Children work with professional circus educators, choreographers and musicians to create acts for public performances and to also learn how to teach the skills they practice. Circus arts performed and taught include aerial, acrobatic, juggling, comedy and balancing acts. In the course of a year, students present over 300 shows. In their performances, our young artists display how they have overcome fear, prejudice and gravity while presenting entertaining, quality circus shows. As they teach, they experience the power of passing it on.
$261,339 spent$175,712 earned by the program65% of program spendingPeace through pyramids uses circus arts to build bridges between different communities by building human pyramids with children. The initiative aims to foster teamwork, tolerance, and social inclusion. This program has connected students from various backgrounds, including local st. Louis neighborhoods, a jewish/arab youth circus inisrael, and social circuses in puerto rico and germany.
$86,387 spent$133,212 earned by the program22% of program spendingDefy gravity 101 brings circus classes to local schools and community centers throughout the st louis are. Through teaching circus arts, we empower individual children to challenge themselves through approprate risk taking; increase fitness through improvements in fine motor and visual tracking skills; and cultivate life skills like patience, persistence, focus and self-confidence while learning to present themselves in public. Students will foster successful behavior including self-cotrol, self-esteem, conflict resolution, positive thinking, cooperation and leadership skills. They will master fear and expand their life skills.
$54,038 spent$116,722 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $401,764.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $168k to $572k (+240%).
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: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of CIRCUS HARMONY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $60k → $135k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 CIRCUS HARMONY’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
CIRCUS HARMONY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 CIRCUS HARMONY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 87% · 2019 64% · 2020 32% · 2021 26% · 2022 39% · 2023 34% — 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
79% of CIRCUS HARMONY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
84% of CIRCUS HARMONY's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $218k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CIRCUS HARMONY's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CIRCUS HARMONY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $94k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$94k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CIRCUS HARMONY
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CIRCUS HARMONY: 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 CIRCUS HARMONY?
- CIRCUS HARMONY (Missouri) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $710,942 to it, the largest being REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION ($287,905). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CIRCUS HARMONY have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $710,942 in grants to CIRCUS HARMONY, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CIRCUS HARMONY?
- REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION is the largest funder on record, with $287,905 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CIRCUS HARMONY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 23 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