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Focus Foundation at a glance

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Focus Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$606k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.6MPhilanthropy$46kYouth Development$35kCommunity Improvement$20kHealth$13kRecreation & Sports$8kArts & Culture$6kEnvironment$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$500,000
UNITY CHURCH OF DELRAY BEACH INC$75,000
SAINT MARKS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$20,000
LYC SAILING FOUNDATION$5,000
HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION$5,000
FLAMINGO GARDENS$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 6 repeat orgs$168k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against -21% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
11

Total granted

$2.6M
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
-21%

Still filing today

50%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Nova Southeastern University Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +57%
  • AC
    ARTS COUNCIL OF BIG SKY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +333%
  • FG
    FLAMINGO GARDENS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • BF
    BURT FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue -2024%
  • TF
    TRAINERSPACE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • MH
    MAGRUDER HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +285%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Burton Family Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Buckner Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Seaworld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund
Environment
4
Robert T Galkin Foundation
Philanthropy
5
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Hospital Inc

The primary purpose of the h. lee moffitt cancer center and research institute hospital, inc. ("hospital") is to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer.

Health
6
Boca Raton Humane Society Foundation Inc
Animals
7
Buhl Regional Health Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Bolduc Schuster Family Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc

To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…

Education
10
Animal Cancer Foundation

Animal cancer foundation is dedicated to finding new treatments and eventual cures for cancer by funding research in and increasing public awareness of comparative oncology, the study of naturally occurring, similar cancers in people and…

Health
11
University of Hawaii Foundation

To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.

Education
12
Bruder Family Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Magruder Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Burt Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Nova Southeastern University Inc: $1,600,000 · EducationNova Southeastern University IncIndividual grant recipient: $501,350 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITY CHURCH OF DELRAY BEACH INC: $75,000 · OtherUNITY CHURCH OF DELRAY BEACH INC+11 more: $78,400 · Other+11 moreBURT FAMILY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · PhilanthropyOTTAWA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 · PhilanthropyMOONLIGHT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $33,750 · EnvironmentMAGRUDER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $400 · HealthLAUDERDALE YACHT SAILING FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human Services
Education$1,600,000Other$1,154,750Philanthropy$45,500Environment$33,750Health$10,400Recreation & Sports$7,500Human Services$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $1,600,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMOONLIGHT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $33,750 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetOTTAWA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetMAGRUDER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetLAUDERDALE YACHT SAILING FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF BIG SKY: $5,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLAMINGO GARDENS INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Focus Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Focus Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Focus Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Focus Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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