Maine · Nonprofit
Family Focus
Family Focus (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,500 to it, the largest being The Gorter Family Foundation ($52,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $65k
- Net assets
- $920k
What Family Focus does
Mission
Family Focus partners with families to provide high-quality care and education to meet the individual needs of our children. They are committed to preparing children for future success through credentialed staff, nurturing environments and research based curriculum.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child Care Services:Family Focus provides infant, toddler, and preschool care services as well as before and after school and summer programs. Its Early Learning Center is accredited by the NAEYC (the National Association for the Education of Young Children). Its school age programs are accredited by the COA (Council of Accreditation).
$1,450,639 spent$1,596,165 earned by the program66% of program spendingFederal Food Program:As administrator of the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), Family Focus sponsors 12 Family Day Care Homes, 1 Child Care Center, and 4 Outside School Hours Care Centers. The program ensures that meals served to children follow a healthy diet.
$738,576 spent$770,791 earned by the program34% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,189,215.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.2M to $2.4M (+5%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 8% · 2021 36% · 2022 22% · 2023 12% · 2024 6% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of Family Focus’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $32k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Family Focus’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
Family Focus leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
Family Focus draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is 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.
Against its field
Family Focus runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Family Focus
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Friends of Family Focus · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Family Focus: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Family Focus?
- Family Focus (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,500 to it, the largest being The Gorter Family Foundation ($52,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Family Focus have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $64,500 in grants to Family Focus, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Family Focus?
- The Gorter Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $52,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Family Focus find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing