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Kids in Focus

Kids in Focus (Arizona) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $979,667 to it, the largest being BHHS Legacy Foundation ($334,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$87k
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$980k
Net assets
$10k
13/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Kids in Focus does

Mission

Kids in Focus is a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring youth to overcome adversity through the art of mentorship-based photography and life skills development.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Youth Programming In 2025, our youth programs served 356 youth at no cost to them or their families. Through a mix of after-school programming, mentoring, workshops, internships, and GRADS events, youth participated in 1,006 unique experiencesfrom hands-on photography sessions to career development outings and community art exhibits. Our After School Mentoring Program provided 38 students with personalized mentorship and photography instruction over a 9-week period, including field experiences to cultural and nature-based destinations. Junior Mentors (12) developed leadership skills, with two serving as featured speakers at a national philanthropic conference. The GRADS Workshops offered continued connection for 40 youth, while the True North outdoor program brought 70 youth out of the city to explore Arizonas natural environments. We launched new service-learning partnerships with Scottsdale Community College and Chandler-Gilbert Community College, engaging KIF professional volunteers (photographers, writers, designers, and others) donated over 4,700 hours of direct service to the kids, valued at $282,000, a figure not represented in the budget. The youth served in 2021 are 55%…

    $112,282 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $112,282.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($92k) Expenses 100 ($79k) Net assets 100 ($104k)2019 Revenue 303 ($279k) Expenses 213 ($169k) Net assets 205 ($214k)2020 Revenue 342 ($314k) Expenses 361 ($286k) Net assets 225 ($235k)2021 Revenue 496 ($456k) Expenses 477 ($378k) Net assets 300 ($313k)2022 Revenue 718 ($660k) Expenses 727 ($575k) Net assets 381 ($398k)2023 Revenue 498 ($458k) Expenses 848 ($671k) Net assets 169 ($176k)2024 Revenue 365 ($335k) Expenses 488 ($386k) Net assets 128 ($134k)2025 Revenue 95 ($87k) Expenses 242 ($191k) Net assets 10 ($10k)
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Revenue (95)Expenses (242)Net assets (10)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 2022 to 2023, from $410k to $187k (−54%).

$104k
$215k
$248k
$314k
$410k
$187k
$135k
$10k
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2022 42% · 2023 48% · 2024 38% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of Kids in Focus’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,281 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’18
$110k
’19
$29k
’20
$78k
’21
$85k
’22
−$213k
’23
−$51k
’24
−$104k
’25
0.6
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

Dianne Haws

Incoming Executive Director July 1

Board chair

Kirk Strawn

Incoming Board Chairman July 1

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed48766813
Joined·+4+2+2+5+2+6
No longer listed·033501
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $5k → $239k.

5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Kids in Focus’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

Kids in Focus has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

65% 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 Kids in Focus.

34%
largest funder
52%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 53% · 2020 51% · 2021 48% · 2022 33% · 2023 44% — 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

69% of Kids in Focus's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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

81% of Kids in Focus's grant income comes from Arizona funders.

IL
NY
CA
AZ
SC
TX

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k 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

Kids in Focus has grown faster than half of the 3,356 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−119% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,356 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Government funding Kids in Focus receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.

Federal$10k
grants $10kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$10k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Kids in Focus

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 Arizona

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

59% of spending goes to programs.

Program 59%Management 22%Fundraising 19%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AZ

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Kids in Focus: 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 Kids in Focus?
Kids in Focus (Arizona) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $979,667 to it, the largest being BHHS Legacy Foundation ($334,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Kids in Focus have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $979,667 in grants to Kids in Focus, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Kids in Focus?
BHHS Legacy Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $334,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Kids in Focus find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 25 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