How much does First Focus give?

First Focus reported 5 grants totaling $120,000 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.

What does First Focus fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Civil Rights (62%), Crime & Legal (15%), Human Services (9%).

Who are First Focus's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Idaho Voices for Children Foundation Inc ($200k), Texans Care For Children Inc ($50k), Child and Family Policy Center ($38k).

Does First Focus fund new organizations?

In FY2019, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

First Focus

Bipartisan advocacy organization dedicated to making children and families the priority in federal policy and budget decisions.

$120k
Granted FY2019: 5
Grants FY2019: 5
Organizations funded FY2019: 60%
First-time grantees FY2019

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Median grant, FY2019: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2019: $200,000
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 19; FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019: 5
Total assets, FY2019: $6.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 60% of the organizations First Focus funded were first-time grantees, receiving 86% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2019	5	$280k	60%
FY2018	16	$326k	56%
FY2017	19	$190k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Civil Rights$490kCrime & Legal$118kHuman Services$70kEducation$50kReligion$30kYouth Development$18kHealth$10kPublic Benefit$10k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Idaho Voices for Children Foundation Inc	$200,000	1	n/a
Texans Care For Children Inc	$50,000	3	3%
Child and Family Policy Center	$38,000	3	1%
Voices for Georgia's Children Inc	$38,000	3	2%
Voices for Virginia's Children	$38,000	3	3%
Childrens Action Alliance Inc	$30,000	3	n/a
Children First for Oregon	$30,000	3	2%
True North Group	$30,000	2	n/a
Voices for Ohios Children	$30,000	3	1%
Kentucky Youth Advocates Inc	$26,000	3	1%

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All grantees of First Focus by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Idaho Voices for Children Foundation Inc	$200,000	1	n/a
Texans Care For Children Inc	$50,000	3	3%
Child and Family Policy Center	$38,000	3	1%
Voices for Georgia's Children Inc	$38,000	3	2%
Voices for Virginia's Children	$38,000	3	3%
Childrens Action Alliance Inc	$30,000	3	n/a
Children First for Oregon	$30,000	3	2%
True North Group	$30,000	2	n/a
Voices for Ohios Children	$30,000	3	1%
Kentucky Youth Advocates Inc	$26,000	3	1%
Facing Foster Care in Alaska	$20,000	2	8%
Florida's Children First Inc	$20,000	2	n/a
Fosteradopt Connect Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Hawaii Children's Action Network	$20,000	2	n/a
Juvenile Law Center	$20,000	2	n/a
Children's Advocates for Change	$20,000	1	4%
Children's Advocacy Alliance	$20,000	1	4%
Multi-Agency Alliance for Children Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Children Now	$10,000	3	0%
North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc	$10,000	3	0%
Advocates for Children of New York	$10,000	3	0%
West Virginia Healthy Kids and Families Coalition	$10,000	3	1%
Colorado Children's Campaign	$10,000	3	1%
Utah Children	$10,000	3	1%
Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children	$10,000	3	1%
The Children's Partnership	$10,000	3	0%
Maine Children's Alliance	$10,000	3	2%
Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy Inc	$10,000	3	1%
Wispirg Foundation Inc	$10,000	3	7%
New Mexico Child Advocacy Networks	$8,000	2	1%
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute Inc	$8,000	2	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget First Focus supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Annie E Casey Foundation IncMD39.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Partnership for Americas Children · Alliance for Early Success Fka Birth to Five Policy Alliance · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · American Heart Association Inc · Center on Budget and Policy Priorities · Georgetown University · New Venture Fund · MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger · Carequest Foundation Inc · Pritzker Family Foundation · Hopewell Fund

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About First Focus

How much does First Focus give?: First Focus reported 5 grants totaling $120,000 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does First Focus fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Civil Rights (62%), Crime & Legal (15%), Human Services (9%).
Who are First Focus's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Idaho Voices for Children Foundation Inc ($200k), Texans Care For Children Inc ($50k), Child and Family Policy Center ($38k).
Does First Focus fund new organizations?: In FY2019, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as First Focus?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Annie E Casey Foundation Inc, Partnership for Americas Children, Alliance for Early Success Fka Birth to Five Policy Alliance.
Where is First Focus based?: First Focus is based in DC.