Focus on Children Now Inc

Analysis

Focus on Children Now Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Encino, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Focus on Children Now Inc reported income of $534k and spending of $674k, spending 126% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $933k to $534k (-43%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 173%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Focus on Children Now Inc sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sunny Foundation ($534k), Forward Advantage Foundation Inc ($534k) and Kenya Childrens Fund Inc ($534k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $1,271, net assets of $1.2m.