Minnesota · Nonprofit
THE CIRCLE CORP
THE CIRCLE CORP (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,000 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $185k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $108k
What The Circle Corp does
Program
Arts, culture & humanities programs. The circle newspaper continues to serve the native and mainstream community by publishing articles, columns, news and art by and about native a
$127,412 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $127,412.
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 2021 to 2022, from $76k to $123k (+60%).
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.
28% of THE CIRCLE CORP’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Joy Persall
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of THE CIRCLE CORP’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
THE CIRCLE CORP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 100% · 2018 100% · 2021 50% — 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
68% of THE CIRCLE CORP's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
THE CIRCLE CORP runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE CIRCLE CORP
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
82%
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 THE CIRCLE CORP: 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 THE CIRCLE CORP?
- THE CIRCLE CORP (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,000 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CIRCLE CORP have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $22,000 in grants to THE CIRCLE CORP, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CIRCLE CORP?
- THE BUSH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CIRCLE CORP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 3 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