The Focus Foundation Inc

Analysis

The Focus Foundation Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Crofton, MD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover medical research, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, The Focus Foundation Inc reported income of $703k and spending of $797k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $801k to $703k (-12%), an average of -3.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 94%. Over the whole period it spent 147% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Focus Foundation Inc sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 74th percentile within MD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Gender Health Center ($703k), Louisiana Aap Foundation ($703k) and Compass to Care the Mike & Sandy Ernsdorff Childhood Cancer Foundat ($703k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 106% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $128k (16% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $348k. At year end it held assets of $292k against liabilities of $22k, net assets of $270k. It reported 19 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.