California · Nonprofit
CRCL INC
CRCL INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being GUSTAF WESTFELDT MCILHENNY FAMILY FOUNDA ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $100k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $572k
What Crcl Inc does
Mission
The Center for Research in Computational Linguistics was incorporated as CRCL Inc in 2003 for educational purposes under the California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law. CRCL's mission is to promote research and study of modern and historical languages, focusing on Southeast Asia, and helping to fill the gap between the emerging discipline of computational linguistics, and the traditional methods of the Southeast Asian linguistics / languages community. Since its founding CRCL has successfully promoted development and dissemination of resources and methods with the support and collaboration of colleagues in the US Southeast Asian Studies National Resource Centers, the Coalition of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages, the Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia, American Councils for International Education, the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (University of Wisconsin-Madison), SOAS London, U of Edinburgh, Scotland and other US / international universities.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
Linguistic tone is widely studied and recorded, but tone data has never been broadly and systematically collected as a research resource in more than cursory fashion. The CRCL "Tone in linguistic analysis" project involves acquisition, normalization, phonological, and some semantic analysis of data for the tone languages of Southeast Asia and nearby regions, in particular China and the Himalayas. Our research deals with both modern lexical data, and historical patterns of tone change, and is assisted by the University of Edinburgh as part of their European Research Council project "Evotone: emergence and evolution of linguistic tone". All data and results are freely shared under an open Creative Commons license, and made available via the website.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2018 to 2019, from $276k to $570k (+107%).
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: 2019 100% · 2021 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CRCL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CRCL INC’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
CRCL INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CRCL INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,558 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,558 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2021
Organizations like CRCL INC
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 CRCL INC: 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 CRCL INC?
- CRCL INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being GUSTAF WESTFELDT MCILHENNY FAMILY FOUNDA ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CRCL INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to CRCL INC.
- Who is the largest funder of CRCL INC?
- GUSTAF WESTFELDT MCILHENNY FAMILY FOUNDA is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CRCL INC 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 FY2021 (financials across 2018–2021), 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