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FOCUS ON YOUTH INC

FOCUS ON YOUTH INC (Ohio) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,938,298 to it, the largest being DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ($1,818,600). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.8M
Funders on record
40
Grants received
$2.9M
Net assets
$1.6M
26/40 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Focus on Youth Inc does

Mission

Improve lives by providing trauma-responsive foster care, adoption, and behavioral health services that promote permanency, safety, and well-being for youth and families.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Foster care our foster care program serves children of all families to provide safe, stable, nurturing homes for children in need. Our continued support for the youth and families whom we serve includes foster care, adoption, respite care, and defer detainment of youth at risk of entry into the juvenile justice system. We strive to ensure each child and family received individualized care depending on their needs that will lead to the best outcomes possible. Over this fiscal year we have:1. Placed 157 youth in focus on youth foster homes.2. 77% of all discharges from the foster care program were positive, which includes adoption, reunification, independent living, or placement with kinship.3. Finalized 22 adoptions.4. Had under 5% unplanned placement disruptions.

    $3,095,821 spent$3,405,165 earned by the program
    76% of program spending
  2. Behavioral health our behavioral health program provides extensive mental health services to children ages 3-18 and their families, both within the foster care system and the broader community. We specialize in trauma-informed care and an evidence-based play therapy approach to treatment that is developmentally appropriate to address the mental health needs of children and adolescents. Additionally, we have expertise in working with children in foster care, adopted, kinship care, or involved in children's services. Over this fiscal year, 1. We have served 170 children in our behavioral health program.2. Expanded the partnerships with our two afterschool programs, impacting 882 youth through the connect project. 3. Distributed nearly 7,000 regulation kits, that aid caregivers with tools to encourage mental health focus in home.

    $286,920 spent$315,589 earned by the program
    7% of program spending
  3. Wendy's wonderful kids through the wendy's wonderful kids program, our recruiters are dedicated to servicing the longest-waiting children in foster care, including teenagers, children with special needs and sibling groups. Each youth within the program has their own dedicated recruiter who utilizes an evidence-based, child-focused model to find the right family for each child. Over this fiscal year we have celebrated 16 adoptions of youth in the wendys wonderful kids program; adoptively matched 12 youth with a family to begin the adoption process; expanded services to 8 ohio county agencies involved with focus on youth and wendys wonderful kids

    $468,940 spent$515,798 earned by the program
    12% of program spending
  4. Bridges we provide services to young adults who emancipate from foster care on or after their 18th birthday, but are not yet 21 through bridges, an ohio program that extends housing and other supportive services to eligible young adults. We assist them as they either continue their education or gain and maintain employment. Bridges focuses on building these young adults' skills for independence and self-sufficiency. Over this fiscal year:1. We have increased the number young adults supported through bridges by 20% compared to previous years.

    $202,108 spent$222,304 earned by the program
    5% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,053,789.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.2M) Expenses 100 ($3.1M) Net assets 100 ($781k)2018 Revenue 108 ($3.4M) Expenses 109 ($3.3M) Net assets 110 ($862k)2019 Revenue 99 ($3.1M) Expenses 105 ($3.2M) Net assets 99 ($776k)2020 Revenue 118 ($3.7M) Expenses 112 ($3.4M) Net assets 138 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 124 ($3.9M) Expenses 123 ($3.8M) Net assets 170 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 128 ($4.1M) Expenses 132 ($4.0M) Net assets 168 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 141 ($4.5M) Expenses 140 ($4.3M) Net assets 192 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 143 ($4.6M) Expenses 153 ($4.7M) Net assets 182 ($1.4M)2025 Revenue 152 ($4.8M) Expenses 155 ($4.8M) Net assets 201 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (152)Expenses (155)Net assets (201)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 2020 to 2021, from $1.3M to $1.6M (+20%).

$978k
$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$1.9M
$1.9M
$2.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

7% of FOCUS ON YOUTH INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$117k
’17
$86k
’18
−$81k
’19
$308k
’20
$170k
’21
$44k
’22
$184k
’23
−$117k
’24
$94k
’25
1.8
months of
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

Alicia Ajiboye

Executive director

Board chair

Terrez Thomas

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed8899899810
Joined·+2+1+2+1+1+2+0+5
No longer listed·20220213
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $12k → $794k.

6 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 ON YOUTH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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 ON YOUTH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

78% 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 FOCUS ON YOUTH INC.

62%
largest funder
73%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 45% · 2020 35% · 2021 25% · 2022 78% · 2023 50% — 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

33% of FOCUS ON YOUTH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

92% of FOCUS ON YOUTH INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

MN
WI
OH
PA
KY
VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $118k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FOCUS ON YOUTH INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 24 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve1.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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 ON YOUTH INC?
FOCUS ON YOUTH INC (Ohio) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,938,298 to it, the largest being DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ($1,818,600). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FOCUS ON YOUTH INC have?
IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $2,938,298 in grants to FOCUS ON YOUTH INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOCUS ON YOUTH INC?
DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION is the largest funder on record, with $1,818,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOCUS ON YOUTH INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 40 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