Encircled
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834058317
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Minnetonka, MN, USA
- Phone
- (612) 203-1254
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $241,714
- Expenses
- $227,799
- Assets
- $98,185
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- BEN BEVIS (Executive Dir.): $87,553 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Encircled is a Christ-centered process that equips families, mentors, and organizations to surround a student with trusted, intentional adults—helping them discover their identity, gifts, and vision through guided reflection, goal-setting, and a full year of support. at Encircled Mentors on Circle Our Christ-centered process equips families, mentors and organizations to surround a student with trusted, intentional adults—helping them discover their identity, gifts, and vision through guided reflection, goal-setting and a full year of support. Encircled is on a Mentor Circle mission "It’s reassuring to know that our child has key supports praying for them and encouraging them." Sam, Encircled Parent. Our Christ-centered process equips families, mentors and organizations to surround a student with trusted, intentional adults—helping them discover their identity, gifts, and vision...
What it reported doing in 2025
Train and partner with faith orgs to equip and support students with faith and purpose.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.1%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 79.7%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.8%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 38.4%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.7% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 75.1% of revenue deployed · 79.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 6 board members independent · 0 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $182K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $88K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.