A Red Circle

Analysis

A Red Circle is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Louis, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, A Red Circle reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.1m, spending 80% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $244k to $1.3m (+440%), an average of +76% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 130%. Over the whole period it spent 74% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, A Red Circle sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 80th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Nebraska Innovation Campus Development Corporation ($1.3m), Education Matters Africa Foundation ($1.3m) and Imagine Middle at East Mesa Inc ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% and program service revenue 1.9% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $40k (3.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $470k. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $685k, net assets of $816k. It reported 15 employees.