Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Unity Circles Corp
Unity Circles Corp (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $286,096 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($110,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $58k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $286k
- Net assets
- $93k
What Unity Circles Corp does
Mission
To strengthen community relations and reduce conflict by providing social and emotional skill development programming, training and technical assistance to youth, adults, public schools and community agencies; to provide youth and adults with supportive group counseling services; to provide therapeutic services for distressed youth and adults including restorative justice practices, mindfulness and yoga practices; to initiate and coordinate the involvement of local community agencies, organizations or groups in order to fulfill the foregoing purposes; to promote peaceful alternatives to violence using restorative justice and trauma informed practices.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Building out a collective network to support the Boston community in holding and practicing Transformative Justice and Restorative Justice
$25,459 spent23% of program spendingTJPP is a six month apprenticeship for young adults ages 18-25 in Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville.* Cohort members will build community with eachother as they learn how to embody Transformative Justice (TJ) values and practices. Over the course of an eight week intensive in the summer they will explore Transformative Justice as a political framework, a way of life, and how it can be used to address harm intheir own communities. Additionally, cohort members will partner withan organization that holds TJ values in Boston and apply their learningthrough a participatory action project.
$65,785 spent60% of program spendingUnity Circles will deliver a youth program for students. Programming will have a restorative justice lens and framework with a focus on social justice issues that most impact the community in which the youth reside. Through local partnerships and volunteer opportunities, youth will learn about social justice topics that most impact their community and will engage in a Participatory Action Research (PAR) project that will help them bring theory into practice.Through the PAR project, youth will engage in local research and data collection around a particular topic they feel strongly about. The program will focus heavily on bridging the gap between the schooland communities in which the youth live by collaborating with Boston led organizations to address injustices that most impact their lives. Programming will consist of an educational experience that is relevant to the lives of the youth.
$17,986 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $109,230.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $182k to $93k (−49%).
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.
98% of Unity Circles Corp’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Valleria Miranda-Ferrick
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $74k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 Unity Circles 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
Unity Circles Corp leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 Unity Circles Corp.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 37% · 2023 47% — 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
85% of Unity Circles Corp'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 $43k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $243k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Unity Circles Corp's revenue fell 36% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,682 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Unity Circles 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Unity Circles 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 Unity Circles Corp?
- Unity Circles Corp (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $286,096 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($110,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Unity Circles Corp have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $286,096 in grants to Unity Circles Corp, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Unity Circles Corp?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Unity Circles Corp find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 8 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