FOCAL Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 630917517
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Huntsville, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2566564273
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $58,431
- Expenses
- $22,798
- Assets
- $90,808
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michel Pope (President)
- Terry Bell (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Michel Pope (President)
- Karmel Pope (Board Member)
- Catherine Filippo (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To assist foster children and families with resources for extra-curricular activities, events, and vital needs that are not covered by foster family payments
What it reported doing in 2025
Christmas presents, Sport and Foster Appreciation Picnic
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37.3%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 89.7%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 61%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.98; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 37.3% of revenue deployed · 89.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $20K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.