Michigan · Nonprofit
Genesee Area Focus Fund
Genesee Area Focus Fund (Michigan) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,721,145 to it, the largest being CHARLES STEWART MOTT FOUNDATION ($42,373,645). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $43M
- Net assets
- $265k
What Genesee Area Focus Fund does
Mission
The Genesee Area Focus Fund's purpose is to receive and administer funds dedicated to improving the economy and quality of life of the people of Genesee County, Michigan. The Focus Fund provides support to publicly supported organizations that share this objective.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Talent Development: Support regional economic development through programs and services that attract and retain talent, prepare the emerging workforce for high-demand career opportunities, and address systemic issues that serve as a barrier to maintaining a strong talent pipeline.
$427 spent0% of program spendingEconomic Development: Advance regional growth by strengthening partnerships with businesses, state agencies, and financial institutions; attracting new businesses, jobs, and investment; retaining and supporting the growth of existing businesses; and fostering small business and entrepreneurial development.
$1,977,141 spent58% of program spendingTalent Retention: Encourage individuals to stay, work, and contribute to the local economy by expanding access to post-secondary education through initiatives like the Flint Promise, partnering with employers to create meaningful internship opportunities, and providing training that helps community members develop new skills and advance their careers.
$438,640 spent13% of program spendingEducational program that facilitates various employment preparation and training activities. The program infuses curriculum with workplace context and supplements the academic program with work based experiences.
$993,484 spent29% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,409,692.
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.
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 $2.7M to $708k (−74%).
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 15% · 2018 20% · 2019 12% · 2020 9% · 2021 6% · 2022 11% · 2023 9% · 2024 7% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Timothy Herman
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $6.2M → $4.6M.
Left out of every figure on this page: $268k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Foundation for Flint). These are real filings, and they are not money Genesee Area Focus Fund raised.
From the IRS filings of Genesee Area Focus Fund’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
Genesee Area Focus Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 99% · 2018 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
25% of Genesee Area Focus Fund's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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 Genesee Area Focus Fund's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like Genesee Area Focus Fund
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Flint & Genesee Group · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Genesee Area Focus Fund: 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 Genesee Area Focus Fund?
- Genesee Area Focus Fund (Michigan) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,721,145 to it, the largest being CHARLES STEWART MOTT FOUNDATION ($42,373,645). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Genesee Area Focus Fund have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $42,721,145 in grants to Genesee Area Focus Fund, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Genesee Area Focus Fund?
- CHARLES STEWART MOTT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $42,373,645 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Genesee Area Focus Fund find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 11 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