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SUBCIRCLE INC

SUBCIRCLE INC (Maine) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,456 to it, the largest being Onion Foundation ($19,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$69k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$47k
Net assets
$12k
2/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Subcircle Inc does

Mission

Subcircles mission is to bolster the availability and diversity of performing arts in Southern Maine Presenting our own creative work supporting the development of other performing artists work offering public programming that reflects the needs of the community and collaborating with local organizations that share our values

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. 0

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($89k) Expenses 100 ($143k) Net assets -99 ($-12269)2024 Revenue 73 ($65k) Expenses 39 ($56k) Net assets -23 ($-2924)2025 Revenue 77 ($69k) Expenses 37 ($53k) Net assets 100 ($12k)
202320242025
Revenue (77)Expenses (37)Net assets (100)Peer revenue range

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 $12k to $21k (+69%).

$9k
$12k
$21k
202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

90% of SUBCIRCLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

−$54k
’23
$9k
’24
$15k
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Mara Flamm

Board President

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $10k.

From the IRS filings of SUBCIRCLE 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.

How concentrated its funding is

SUBCIRCLE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

41%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 75% — 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.

Where its funders are

SUBCIRCLE INC draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 5 states in all.

ME
MA
PA
CA
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
Maine out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SUBCIRCLE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−12% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like SUBCIRCLE INC

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 Maine

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUBCIRCLE 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 SUBCIRCLE INC?
SUBCIRCLE INC (Maine) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,456 to it, the largest being Onion Foundation ($19,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SUBCIRCLE INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $47,456 in grants to SUBCIRCLE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SUBCIRCLE INC?
Onion Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $19,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SUBCIRCLE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 7 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