Missouri · Nonprofit
FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION
FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,539,127 to it, the largest being ADELE BRAUN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($3,500,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What Focus Marines Foundation does
Mission
To educate and empower veterans to live an engaged and fulfilling life to the best of their ability after leaving the military.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The focus program: the highly successful focus program is a six-day event designed by the Focus Marines Foundation to help veterans struggling with their life after leaving the military. Internationally recognized facilitators play a major role in providing the participants the tools that address veterans' issues like anxiety, depression, addiction, negativity, insomnia, isolation, relationships, self-doubt and suicide. The program is held four times each year in augusta, missouri. There are three basic components: I. Day 1: building new relationships with other veterans attending focus. Ii. Day 2-3: addressing the question: "who are you and who do you want to be?" iii. Day 4-6: addressing the question: "what do you want to do and how will you make it happen?"all costs, transportation, room, board, and materials are provided by the Focus Marines Foundation. Over 1,000 veterans have attended the focus program since 2013, with life changing results. The veterans consist of marines, navy corpsman, sailors, soldiers and airmen. The ages range from 21-67, the ranks from private to colonel. The Focus Marines Foundation has developed a national network of effective veterans organizations…
$627,361 spent88% of program spendingRe-focus zoom meeting: the re-focus zoom meetings are held on the 3rd tuesday of each month from 7:00 - 8:00pm cst. The meeting is run by nationally known facilitators and mentors who are graduates of the focus program. It covers topics taught at the focus program as well as introducing new relevant material. Focus graduates are sent monthly email and text messages inviting them to each re-focus zoom meeting.
$88,734 spent12% of program spendingBuddy check zoom meeting: the buddy check zoom is held the 1st thursday of each month from 7:00 - 8:00pm cst. This zoom meeting has become a forum for focus graduates to discuss a wide set of issues facing veterans. The issues discussed could be positive or negative. Focus graduates are sent monthly email and text messages inviting them to each buddy check zoom meeting.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $716,095.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.5M to $5.8M (+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.
88% of FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Jennifer Jefferson
Executive director
Board chair
Walt Suhre
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $97k → $848k.
8 of 32 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 FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 79%; 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 26% · 2018 45% · 2019 69% · 2020 74% · 2021 66% · 2022 70% · 2023 59% — 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
56% of FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
95% of FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
41%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION?
- FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,539,127 to it, the largest being ADELE BRAUN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($3,500,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $5,539,127 in grants to FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION?
- ADELE BRAUN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 32 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