Circles of Troup County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861924547
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Lagrange, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7064026423
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $189,686
- Expenses
- $140,969
- Assets
- $293,477
- Liabilities
- $57,772
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- SHERRI BROWN (EXECUTIVE DI)
- KAY DURAND (CHAIR)
- MIRIAM HOLLER (VICE CHAIR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Circles of troup county exists to identify and eliminate the causes of poverty and support those wishing to lift themselves out of poverty. Circles uses a relational strategy to support adults and their children out of poverty while inspiring and equipping the community to reduce its poverty rate.
What it reported doing in 2024
Circles for troup county is a poverty reduction initiative that has graduated more than 100 participants to date which equates to more than 300 adult and child family members. Circles has held poverty awareness training sessions throughout the county and in the west Georgia region in order to educate residents about what a life of poverty feels like. Circles continues to be an advocate in the awareness arena working with local police and sheriff's offices; united way; adult and juvenile court systems and many other organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 41.9%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 56.3%; rating input score 56
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.7%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.08; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 41.9% of revenue deployed · 56.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $79K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 42/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.