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AMERICAN FOCUS INC

AMERICAN FOCUS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $927,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($525,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$98k
Revenue FY2025
9
Funders on record
$927k
Grants received
$113k
Net assets
3/9 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

AMERICAN FOCUS INC's revenue fell 77% between 2019 and 2025.

Operating margin−21% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−22% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($421k) Expenses 100 ($314k) Net assets 100 ($116k)2020 Revenue 113 ($477k) Expenses 52 ($162k) Net assets 372 ($431k)2021 Revenue 7 ($30k) Expenses 36 ($113k) Net assets 300 ($347k)2022 Revenue 57 ($239k) Expenses 49 ($154k) Net assets 375 ($434k)2023 Revenue 38 ($159k) Expenses 108 ($339k) Net assets 218 ($253k)2024 Revenue 18 ($78k) Expenses 64 ($202k) Net assets 111 ($128k)2025 Revenue 23 ($98k) Expenses 38 ($119k) Net assets 98 ($113k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (23)Expenses (38)Net assets (98)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 5% · 2020 3% · 2021 0% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

31% of AMERICAN FOCUS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,745 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$107k
19
$315k
20
$83k
21
$85k
22
$180k
23
$125k
24
$21k
25
34
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $27k → $115k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)60% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN FOCUS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

AMERICAN FOCUS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

63% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN FOCUS INC.

57%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 75% · 2023 43%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

20% of AMERICAN FOCUS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

60% of AMERICAN FOCUS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $372k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 4 states.

NY
VA
DC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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19
20
21
22
23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $555k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding AMERICAN FOCUS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.

Federal$30k
grants $30kcontracts $0
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22
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$30k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like AMERICAN FOCUS INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Virginia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

49%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN FOCUS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN FOCUS INC?
AMERICAN FOCUS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $927,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($525,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does AMERICAN FOCUS INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $927,000 in grants to AMERICAN FOCUS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FOCUS INC?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $525,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN FOCUS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 9funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing