California · Nonprofit
Focus Forward
Focus Forward (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $704,286 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA WELLNESS FOUNDATION ($560,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Focus Forward runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,968 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,968 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Edward M and Jeanne C Kashian Family Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- Rotary Club of Fresno Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Latino Community Foundationshared funders
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.
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: 2017 80% · 2018 90% · 2019 81% · 2020 69% · 2021 45% · 2022 94% · 2023 93% · 2024 91% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Focus Forward’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $26k → $20k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Focus Forward’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
Focus Forward leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 90%; 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: 2017 78% · 2018 45% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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.
How long its funders stay
22% of Focus Forward's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
97% of Focus Forward's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Edward M and Jeanne C Kashian Family Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchCA · funds 29 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Rotary Club of Fresno Foundationlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 19 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Latino Community Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- Daniel R Martin Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Our Little Light Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Optimist Club of Country Clubportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Aging Out Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Childrens Services Foundation Dba Catalyst Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sieg & Doris Fischer FDN-AGY-MAINportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Save Mart Caresportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fansler Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ticket to Dream Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Focus Forward
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 Focus Forward: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Focus Forward?
- Focus Forward (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $704,286 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA WELLNESS FOUNDATION ($560,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Focus Forward have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $704,286 in grants to Focus Forward, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Focus Forward?
- THE CALIFORNIA WELLNESS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $560,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Focus Forward 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.
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 11funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing