New York · Nonprofit
The Black Community Focus Fund Inc
The Black Community Focus Fund Inc (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,000 to it, the largest being ESL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $58k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $51k
- Net assets
- $179k
What The Black Community Focus Fund Inc does
Mission
The corporation is formed for the charitable purpose of offering direct financial support to the poor and needy black people living in the 14605 zip code neighborhood in Rochester, New York to assist them with adequate housing, employment, schooling and business start-ups.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Black Community FOCUS Fund works toward racial equity and antipoverty efforts especially in the areas of employment, housing, education and economic revitalization, focused in the Rochester New York 14605 ZIP Code neighborhood. The program has 3 components which include:1. administering a program for the city of Rochester to distribute funds which address economic poverty and social equity,2. partnering with the city of Rochester create the first outdoor civil rights, Black history educational Park, named after Minister Franklin D. Florence a civil rights leader, and3. providing limited financial assistance with transportation, food, housing, utilities, education, entrepreneurship and financial hardship.
$34,721 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $34,721.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $141k to $448k (+217%).
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.
31% of The Black Community Focus Fund Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Michael Marshall
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $50k.
From the IRS filings of The Black Community Focus Fund Inc’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
The Black Community Focus Fund Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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: 2021 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
100% of The Black Community Focus Fund Inc's grant income comes from New York 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.
Against its field
The Black Community Focus Fund Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,247 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,247 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like The Black Community Focus Fund Inc
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Black Community Focus Fund Inc: 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 The Black Community Focus Fund Inc?
- The Black Community Focus Fund Inc (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,000 to it, the largest being ESL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Black Community Focus Fund Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $51,000 in grants to The Black Community Focus Fund Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of The Black Community Focus Fund Inc?
- ESL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Black Community Focus Fund Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 2 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