Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
SARAH'S CIRCLE
SARAH'S CIRCLE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $509,157 to it, the largest being ELIZABETH R SHOEMAKER HOME CO EDWARD T DILLON ($193,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $509k
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Sarah's Circle does
Mission
To provide affordable housing and a comprehensive array of support services that enable senior citizens to age in place.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Housing: the organization is the majority owner of the managing member of a property that leases apartments at below market rate to persons of limited means. The organization participates in and supervises management of the property.
$160,924 spent100% of program spendingSenior services and activities: the organization, with the participation of senior citizens, provides and arranges for education, cultural nutrional, and health activities for apartment residents and neighborhood senior citizens.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $160,924.
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 2017 to 2018, from $3.6M to $5.2M (+43%).
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 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Linwood Cole
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $10k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 SARAH'S 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
SARAH'S CIRCLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 54% · 2020 45% · 2021 43% · 2022 38% · 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.
How long its funders stay
30% of SARAH'S CIRCLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
SARAH'S CIRCLE draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k 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.
Organizations like SARAH'S 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
34%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Sarah's Circle Renewal LLC · partnership
- Sarah's Circle Mm LLC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SARAH'S 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 SARAH'S CIRCLE?
- SARAH'S CIRCLE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $509,157 to it, the largest being ELIZABETH R SHOEMAKER HOME CO EDWARD T DILLON ($193,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SARAH'S CIRCLE have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $509,157 in grants to SARAH'S CIRCLE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SARAH'S CIRCLE?
- ELIZABETH R SHOEMAKER HOME CO EDWARD T DILLON is the largest funder on record, with $193,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SARAH'S CIRCLE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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