· Private foundation
Federal Focus Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGHLAND SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| LASTIE PRODUCTION LLC | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| POTOMAC RIVER JAZZ CLUB (DAVE ROBINSON) | $230 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PHPRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +232%
- PRPOTOMAC RIVER JAZZ CLUB5× · 2018–2022 · $2k · revenue +13%
- FFFOOD FOR OTHERS INC2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- ABAMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $8k
- FSFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -30%
- SESENIOR EXECUTIVES ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +33%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POTOMAC RIVER JAZZ CLUB ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FREE STATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR EXECUTIVES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PROGRESSIVE REFORM INC ↗
- Who funds The American Association for Aerosol Research Inc ↗
- Who funds ADA Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Federal Focus Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Federal Focus Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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