Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Dedham Square Circle
Dedham Square Circle (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,400 to it, the largest being NORFOLK & DEDHAM FOUNDATION INC ($185,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $136k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $203k
- Net assets
- $69k
What Dedham Square Circle does
Mission
The Dedham Square Circle is a non-profit organization committed to invigorating Dedham Square by increasing its economic prosperity, promoting its rich history, arts and culture, and aesthetically enhancing the squares physical environment to benefit the entire community.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Farmers Market Benefits the entire community by providing fresh vegetables and other foods on a weekly basis.
$28,200 spent48% of program spendingWinter Farmers Market. Benefits the entire community by providing goods and food on a weekly basis
$6,242 spent11% of program spendingTrunk or Treat Benefits the entire community especially the children by providing Haloween treats from local merchants.
$2,939 spent5% of program spendingSummer Stroll Benefits the entire community by providing an opportunity to shop with local merchants
$8,240 spent14% of program spendingAll other programs and sevices open to the public
$13,394 spent23% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $59,015.
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 2022 to 2023, from $48k to $85k (+77%).
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.
66% of Dedham Square Circle’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Ann Miranda
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $28k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Dedham Square Circle’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
Dedham Square Circle leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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: 2017 93% · 2018 99% · 2019 98% · 2020 84% · 2021 91% · 2022 82% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
99% of Dedham Square Circle's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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
Dedham Square Circle's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Dedham Square Circle receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $28k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$28k
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 Dedham Square Circle
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
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 Dedham Square Circle: 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 Dedham Square Circle?
- Dedham Square Circle (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,400 to it, the largest being NORFOLK & DEDHAM FOUNDATION INC ($185,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Dedham Square Circle have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $203,400 in grants to Dedham Square Circle, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dedham Square Circle?
- NORFOLK & DEDHAM FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dedham Square Circle find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 6 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