California · Nonprofit
ONE CIRCLE FOUNDATION
ONE CIRCLE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,678 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($10,080). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $994k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What One Circle Foundation does
Mission
One Circle Foundation prepares caring adults with excellent accredited training, user-friendly activity guides, and innovative approaches to facilitate research-based circles for transformational youth development. Our work ensures that youth thrive worldwide through compassionate connections and healthy relationships within their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
1. Facilitator trainings. One Circle Foundation supports the effective facilitation of our circle models by providing comprehensive, accredited training for adults working with youth. Ocf provided 47 trainings during the year. To ensure accessibility, we continued offering both live online and in-person training.new training release: advanced facilitation skills: connect, lead, grow launched in october 2025, this training strengthens circle facilitators' ability to deepen connection, lead with clarity, and navigate complex dynamics through research-informed facilitation practices.impact: ocf certified 1,110 circle facilitators who gained the skills and competencies to provide safe, accessible, and strengths-based circle programs. These new facilitators reached over 11,100 youth across education, mental health, juvenile justice, foster care, child services, community-based, and public health programs. Training participant satisfaction increased from the previous year to 97.4%. Facilitators reported greater confidence in applying social-emotional learning strategies, with strong gains in managing group dynamics, utilizing practical tools, and effectively creating safe, engaging…
$1,182,877 spent$966,570 earned by the program100% of program spending2. Curricula & resource development. One Circle Foundation supports the effective implementation of our circle models by offering comprehensive activity guides, facilitator manuals, and evaluation tools. In 2025, we continued expanding and improving our resources to meet the evolving needs of youth service professionals.new curriculum release: voice & choice: embracing boundaries and consent launched in march 2025, this 10-session curriculum provides facilitators with structured, evidence-informed sessions to support youth in building healthy relationships, understanding consent, setting boundaries, and strengthening personal autonomy.updated curricula: we conducted an extensive update of the unity circle sex in the digital age supplemental activity guide, along with updates to research and citations, and minor revisions to three other activity guides.curriculum accessibility: we expanded our digital curriculum library, releasing five new digital guides to make resources more affordable, easier to access, and faster to use.total curricula ordered: 3,295, with the top three most-ordered guides being 1. Voice & choice: embracing boundaries and consent, 2. Girls circle facilitator…
3. Consultation and responsive services to facilitators and programs in need. Beyond training and curricula, One Circle Foundation provides continued professional support to facilitators through resources, consultations, and technical assistance.facilitator consultation & support: ocf continued our no-cost facilitator support program, offering 12 monthly live zoom sessions throughout the year in addition to a leadership circle to leaders of organizations within our community. We provided in-person and online customized consultations for 2 agencies and over 50 individuals. Scholarships: we awarded $55,936 in scholarships and discounts to facilitators needing financial assistance to attend training and/or acquire curricula. Curriculum digitization: we expanded our digital offerings, enabling organizations to access curricula at a lower cost with enhanced usability.additional resources: we developed and shared facilitator resources, including "adapting circle sessions to 45 minutes", "tips for school leaders navigating today's challenges", and "how to keep youth engaged in the age of tiktok". These resources provide practical tools to help facilitators meet the needs of youth.…
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,182,877.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.8M to $1.3M (−29%).
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: 2018 36% · 2019 33% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of ONE CIRCLE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (83% 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.
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.
Chief executive
Moorea Dickason
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $58.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 ONE CIRCLE FOUNDATION’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
ONE CIRCLE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 ONE CIRCLE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
89% of ONE CIRCLE FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ONE CIRCLE FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ONE CIRCLE FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $212k on record.
- CT$107k
- DE$102k
- NJ$2k
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 ONE CIRCLE FOUNDATION
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 ONE CIRCLE FOUNDATION: 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 ONE CIRCLE FOUNDATION?
- ONE CIRCLE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,678 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($10,080). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ONE CIRCLE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $11,678 in grants to ONE CIRCLE FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ONE CIRCLE FOUNDATION?
- FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,080 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ONE CIRCLE FOUNDATION 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 5 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