Circle the City
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262420730
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6027760776
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $37,111,976
- Expenses
- $35,881,411
- Assets
- $20,775,292
- Liabilities
- $4,592,806
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
33 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KIM DESPRES (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- NASSER HAJAIG (ASSOCIATE CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER): $368,905 total reported compensation
- KIM DESPRES (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $307,781 total reported compensation
- REBECCA MORAN (MEDICAL DIRECTOR): $270,073 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To create and deliver innovative healthcare solutions that compassionately address the needs of all individuals facing homelessness in maricopa county.
What it reported doing in 2024
Medical respite care: ctc operates two 50-bed medical respite centers to provide a safe place to heal during periods of acute illness or injury for adult men and women experiencing homelessness. The ctc medical respite centers admit 400-500 homeless individuals per year for an average length of stay of 30 to 60 days. While in medical respite care, patients receive integrated medical services from ctc's interdisciplinary team of physicians, behavioral health consultants, nurses, and care givers. Patients are screened for eligibility for social benefit entitlements, such as health insurance, food assistance, housing, and disability benefits.(continued on scheudle o)the organization does not recognize revenue for services provided without charge to patients who meet the criteria of its charity care policy. The organization desires to assure that no patient will be denied health care services due to an individual's inability to pay for such services and wishes to ensure that any fees or payments required for such services will be reduced or waived for eligible patients. In accordance with hrsa requirements, the organization offers all services within the approved scope of project, whether required or additional, under a sliding fee discount schedule and, accordingly, no patient will be denied services based on their inability to pay. Therefore, many eligible patients receive charity care in the absence of an external payer covering costs of services rendered to them. The organization treats all patients referred to the organization who meet basic admitting criteria without consideration of financial status, demographic, or any protected class. The organization provided charity care under its policy totaling $982,049 during the year ended june 30, 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 70% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.7%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.77 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.3%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.7% of revenue deployed · 81.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $29.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $369K · 33 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.8M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.