California · Nonprofit
FOCAL POINT RADIO MINISTRIES
FOCAL POINT RADIO MINISTRIES (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,105,434 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,298,520). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Focal Point Radio Ministries does
Mission
Focal Point Radio Ministries' main purpose is to deliver religious programming over the radio. Currently Focal Point is hear on over 800 radio stations across the US. These stations reach a potential audience of 130 million people. Focal Point sends out newsletters to its database of approximately 30,000 people and provides sermons, worksheets and study materials to prisons. Deliver messages digitally through Focal Point App, Podcasts and the Website.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
We have successfully delivered religious radio programming to over 800 radio stations across the United States. We have added additional stations to increase our reach. We have increased our mailing to over 30,000 people an increase of 20%. Our email lists have grown to over 70,000 who receive our weekly devotional, monthly e-newsletter and updates. 99,000 users come to our website each year and our app has been downloaded over 103,000 times.
$1,607,024 spent$1,574,529 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,607,024.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $1.5M to $1.6M (+7%).
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.
0% of FOCAL POINT RADIO MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $424k → $106k.
9 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FOCAL POINT RADIO MINISTRIES’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
FOCAL POINT RADIO MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 FOCAL POINT RADIO MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 89% · 2019 85% · 2020 79% · 2021 86% · 2022 42% · 2023 79% — 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
57% of FOCAL POINT RADIO MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
100% of FOCAL POINT RADIO MINISTRIES'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M 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
FOCAL POINT RADIO MINISTRIES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,325 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FOCAL POINT RADIO MINISTRIES
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% 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 FOCAL POINT RADIO MINISTRIES: 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 FOCAL POINT RADIO MINISTRIES?
- FOCAL POINT RADIO MINISTRIES (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,105,434 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,298,520). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOCAL POINT RADIO MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $2,105,434 in grants to FOCAL POINT RADIO MINISTRIES, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOCAL POINT RADIO MINISTRIES?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,298,520 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOCAL POINT RADIO MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 10 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