Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC
THE CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,000 to it, the largest being TOM DREXLER CHARITABLE TRUST ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Democracy Fund Inclocalportfolio match
- Frazier-Joy Family Foundation Incshared funders
- The Searle Freedom Trustportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $920k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Voice of the People). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE CIRCLE FOUNDATION 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
THE CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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
“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
THE CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states in all.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Democracy Fund Inclocalportfolio matchDC · funds 123 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Frazier-Joy Family Foundation Incshared fundersKY · backs 3 organizations that share your funders
- The Searle Freedom Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles Koch Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Holman Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ncta - the Internet & Television Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Glacs Endowment Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David Berger Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roe Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Laura and John Arnold Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- PGBeil Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Seminar Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
38%
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
- Voice of the People Action · exempt
- Voice of the People · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CIRCLE FOUNDATION 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC?
- THE CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,000 to it, the largest being TOM DREXLER CHARITABLE TRUST ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $145,000 in grants to THE CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC?
- TOM DREXLER CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC 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.
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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing