Unity Circles Corp

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
833317223
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Roslindale, MA, USA
Phone
8579285908
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development Programs

Reported finances

Revenue
$57,655
Expenses
$146,788
Assets
$92,512
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Valleria Miranda-Ferrick (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Patricia Krueger-Henney (Board Member)
  • Camila Pelsinger (Board Member)
  • Mariam Levy (Treasurer)

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

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.

What it reported doing in 2024

Unity 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.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 90
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 74.4%; rating input score 74

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: -154.6%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 18.8%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 33.2% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -45.3% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -27.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 74.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $109K 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: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.