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FOCUS FOR OUR CHILDRENS UNDISTRACTED SUCCESS

FOCUS FOR OUR CHILDRENS UNDISTRACTED SUCCESS (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,500 to it, the largest being JULIAN GRACE FOUNDATION ($50,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$215k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$51k
Net assets
$10k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Focus for Our Childrens Undistracted Success does

Programs

  1. College Scholarship Awards - A Banquet is held to award 4-5 High School graduates with 500 each monetary award

    $2,500 spent
  2. Kicks 4 Kids - Serve 375 kids with a new pair of Back to School shoes

    $12,000 spent
  3. Holiday Toy Giveaway - Served 100 families with 25 gift cards for the Christmas Holiday

    $2,500 spent
  4. Field Trips

    $8,000 spent

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($73k) Expenses 100 ($56k) Net assets 100 ($18k)2023 Revenue 527 ($386k) Expenses 657 ($365k) Net assets 117 ($21k)2024 Revenue 555 ($406k) Expenses 636 ($353k) Net assets 298 ($53k)2025 Revenue 342 ($250k) Expenses 384 ($213k) Net assets 208 ($37k)2026 Revenue 294 ($215k) Expenses 371 ($206k) Net assets 55 ($10k)
20222023202420252026
Revenue (294)Expenses (371)Net assets (55)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $21k to $53k (+154%).

$18k
$21k
$53k
$37k
$10k
20222023202420252026
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

Alice Howell

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990-PF.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

20222023202420252026
Listed32222
Joined·····
No longer listed·····
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of FOCUS FOR OUR CHILDRENS UNDISTRACTED SUCCESS’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.

Where its funders are

100% of FOCUS FOR OUR CHILDRENS UNDISTRACTED SUCCESS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FOCUS FOR OUR CHILDRENS UNDISTRACTED SUCCESS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 625 education nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)31% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 625 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

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05Profile & governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds FOCUS FOR OUR CHILDRENS UNDISTRACTED SUCCESS?
FOCUS FOR OUR CHILDRENS UNDISTRACTED SUCCESS (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,500 to it, the largest being JULIAN GRACE FOUNDATION ($50,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FOCUS FOR OUR CHILDRENS UNDISTRACTED SUCCESS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,500 in grants to FOCUS FOR OUR CHILDRENS UNDISTRACTED SUCCESS.
Who is the largest funder of FOCUS FOR OUR CHILDRENS UNDISTRACTED SUCCESS?
JULIAN GRACE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOCUS FOR OUR CHILDRENS UNDISTRACTED SUCCESS 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2022–2026), and the filings of 1 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