Missouri · Nonprofit
GREAT CIRCLE
GREAT CIRCLE (Missouri) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,075,971 to it, the largest being JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S SERVICES FUND ($1,212,208). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $714k
- Funders on record
- 103
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $66M
What Great Circle does
Mission
Great Circle inspires life-changing hope and healing so that all children, families and communities can thrive.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2023 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
On April 1, 2023, Great Circle will start the dissolution process, and it is the intent Great Circle and KVC Missouri to transition all programs of Great Circle to KVC Missouri.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Provided specialized behavioral health services for youth and families through 24-hour specialized care, therapeutic educational day treatment, and community based outreach programs.
$11,886,500 spent$15,500,317 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,886,500.
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.
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 $56M to $70M (+26%).
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 1% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 4% · 2022 2% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 27 funders to 26 funders, grant income fell $1.8M → $1.1M.
13 of 103 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $8.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest KVC Endowment Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GREAT CIRCLE raised.
From the IRS filings of GREAT CIRCLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 103 funders by total. 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
GREAT CIRCLE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
56% 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 GREAT CIRCLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 33% · 2019 16% · 2020 28% · 2021 26% · 2022 30% · 2023 26% — 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
40% of GREAT CIRCLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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 GREAT CIRCLE's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Government funding GREAT CIRCLE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.7M on record — $2.7M federal, $3k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.4M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$233k
- Department of Defense$52k
- TUITION OUT/ST OR PRIVATE$3k
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 GREAT 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 Missouri
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
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Kvc Endowment Inc · exempt
- KVC Health Systems · exempt
- Kvc Behavioral Healthcare · exempt
- KVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE West Virginia · exempt
- KVC Foundation inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREAT 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 GREAT CIRCLE?
- GREAT CIRCLE (Missouri) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,075,971 to it, the largest being JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S SERVICES FUND ($1,212,208). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREAT CIRCLE have?
- IRS filings report 103 organizations giving $11,075,971 in grants to GREAT CIRCLE, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT CIRCLE?
- JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S SERVICES FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,212,208 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT CIRCLE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 103 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