Illinois · Nonprofit
Family Focus
Family Focus (Illinois) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,350,437 to it, the largest being START EARLY ($11,889,028). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $33M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $34M
What Family Focus does
Mission
Family Focus invests in strengthening families and children in chicago and ne illinois through innovative community based education and social service programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The early childhood education division serves children from birth to 5 years of age. The division operates in 11 centers in the chicagoland area with total capacity to serve 2,158 children in either center based and/or home visiting capacity. The center-based program has the capacity to serve 224 ehs/hs children. The home-based programs work to support the parent-childinteraction through various activities facilitated by home visitors/family advocates. Home-based services are offered through the chicagoland area. In fy2025, home visitng served 2,182 children and 1,830 families. Home visitors completed 29,283 home visits.
$19,548,645 spent$19,203,775 earned by the program70% of program spendingThe family support services division provides programs and services for parents of all ages and stages, including immigration services support and support for families involved with the department of children and family services. We provide multiple levels of support to help families stay intact and thrive in their communities. For fy25, over 3000 immigrant families were supported through our immigration programs. The support for families involved with dcfs included 1,573 families served through the office of community connections, formerly callled the child welfare services, and 328 families served through the family advocacy centers. Additionally, counseling and therapy services were provided to 65 families through our healing care and practices program.
$6,353,237 spent$6,838,323 earned by the program23% of program spendingThe youth development division provides resources for students k-12 primarily through out of school time programming, providing them with educational support, cultural enrichment opportunities, and social-emotional learning skills. In fy25 Family Focus enrolled 1,354 youth in out-of-school programs across 15 after school programming sites. Of those students, 6.3% had limited english proficiency, 90.1% were economically disadvantaged, and 18.4% had individual education programs.
$1,559,971 spent$1,085,075 earned by the program6% of program spendingOther Program Service
$269,157 spent$434,983 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $27,731,010.
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 2020 to 2021, from $30M to $38M (+28%).
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: 2021 23% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of Family Focus’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Chief executive
Dara T Cohen
President & CEO
Board chair
Caragh DeLuca
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $106k → $3.3M.
11 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sarah Hackett Stevenson Memorial). These are real filings, and they are not money Family Focus raised.
From the IRS filings of Family Focus’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 funders by total. 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 73% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 Family Focus.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 27% · 2019 52% · 2020 52% · 2021 47% · 2022 73% · 2023 81% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of Family Focus's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
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
94% of Family Focus's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states 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 has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Family Focus receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.1M
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 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 46 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Sarah Hackett Stevenson Memorial · exempt
- Family Focus Legacy · exempt
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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 (Illinois) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,350,437 to it, the largest being START EARLY ($11,889,028). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Family Focus have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $16,350,437 in grants to Family Focus, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Family Focus?
- START EARLY is the largest funder on record, with $11,889,028 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 Illinois. 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 59 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing