New York · Nonprofit
FAMILY FOCUS ADOPTION SERVICES
FAMILY FOCUS ADOPTION SERVICES (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,132 to it, the largest being THE HYDE AND WATSON FOUNDATION ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $9k
What Family Focus Adoption Services does
Mission
Family Focus Adoption Services ("family focus") was founded in 1987 by a group of new york and new jersey adoptive parents, social workers, and other adoption advocates, out of the belef that every child who needs a permanent adoptive family, and every family looking to adopt, deserves timely, comprehensive adoption services. This not-for-profit agency, which is fully cerified by new york state, defines itself as high energy level multi-service non-traditional adoption agency.for federal income tax purposes, family focus is classified as a 501(c)(3) organization and is exempt under section 402 of the internal revenue code and a similar provision of the new york state income tax laws.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Agency program include:direct placement program - offering counseling and adoption information to pregnant women or new mothers and their families. Should the parents decide to place their baby for adoption through family focus, the agancy provides the actual placement process and follow up services, with particular sensitivity to the surrender dynamics. Family services program - offering local family evaluations and post-placement reports for families adopting internationally or interstate. Family focus is hague accredited, and able to help families adopting from anywhere in the world.child welfare training program - offering the widely-know and well-respected training services of senior agency staff, as requested, to social work agencies and foster and adoptive parent organizations throughout the united states and canada. Family focus is regularly asked to present our forward-looking non-bureaucratic adoption philosophies and practices at major conferences in both countries. We have also provided a webinar for the national older child adoption effort of the dave thomas foundation, know as wendy's wonderful kids, and have done multi-day training in new york, louisiana, and…
$1,627,041 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,627,041.
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 2019 to 2020, from $247k to $445k (+80%).
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.
5% of FAMILY FOCUS ADOPTION SERVICES’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. 5 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 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $586.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 ADOPTION SERVICES’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 ADOPTION SERVICES 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 97% · 2021 52% · 2022 93% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
FAMILY FOCUS ADOPTION SERVICES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 ADOPTION SERVICES has grown faster 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
Government funding FAMILY FOCUS ADOPTION SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $988 on record.
- Fam Preservation-Adoptions$988
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 ADOPTION SERVICES
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILY FOCUS ADOPTION SERVICES: 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 ADOPTION SERVICES?
- FAMILY FOCUS ADOPTION SERVICES (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,132 to it, the largest being THE HYDE AND WATSON FOUNDATION ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILY FOCUS ADOPTION SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $43,132 in grants to FAMILY FOCUS ADOPTION SERVICES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY FOCUS ADOPTION SERVICES?
- THE HYDE AND WATSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY FOCUS ADOPTION SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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