Widened Circle Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 932348097
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9174422442
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $14,546
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- Evelyn Polesny (Founder, Director, Mentor)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Widened Circle Society works to connect underserved young people with mentors and financial resources including college application assistance, tutoring, scholarships, financial aid and assistance with tuition and other education expenses.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, founder Evelyn began intensive work with students in Gaza, teaching writing and providing college application support. Her work there expanded to include seven students in total. No funds were disbursed during 2025, other than some application fees which she donated from her personal funds in order to preserve all available funds for these six students. In 2026, this work has continued, and the organization hopes to support students as they secure visas and evacuations for the six students still in Gaza, at which time all available funds will go towards these students' tuition and living costs at college.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -108.5% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -111.9% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -55.9% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.