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FIRST FOCUS ON CHILDREN

EIN 81-3185002 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$5,941,772
Expenses 2024
$3,156,470

Program services were 86.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P05
Classification
1200
Street
1400 EYE STREET STE 650

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Bipartisan advocacy organization dedicated to making children and families the priority in federal policy and budget decisions.

  • Advocacy: First Focus is dedicated to making children and families the priority in federal policy and budget decisions.

    Expenses $874,006

  • Health: First Focus works to enhancing critical childrens health programs like the Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and Medicaid

    Expenses $852,591

  • Poverty/Housing: First Focus advocates for federal investments like the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit which lift millions of children and families out of poverty every year.

    Expenses $511,864

  • Tax/Budget: First Focus works to make sure children and families are the priority in federal policy and budget decisions.

    Expenses $313,941

  • Early Childhood: First Focus advocates for expanding critical early childhood programs like the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program and Head Start to support early childhood development in health and education.

    Expenses $134,961

  • SPARC: First Focus works with a network of over 45 state advocacy organizations to prevent child abuse and neglect because the choices made by federal policymakers shape state decisions.

    Expenses $28,902

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Bruce Lesley

    President and Director

    Total calculated
    $278,384
    From this org
    $237,387
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $40,997
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $237,387
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $7,273
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33,724
    Filer's total
    $278,384

  • Messellech Looby

    Treasurer Secretary

    Total calculated
    $185,954
    From this org
    $145,288
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $40,666
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $145,288
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $4,637
    Nontaxable benefits
    $36,029
    Filer's total
    $185,954

  • Michele Kayal

    VP Media and Communications

    Total calculated
    $148,048
    From this org
    $108,486
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $39,562
    Hours/week
    40

  • Leila Nimatallah

    VP International Childrens Policy

    Total calculated
    $146,810
    From this org
    $107,465
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $39,345
    Hours/week
    40

  • Michelle Dallafior

    Senior VP Budget & Tax

    Total calculated
    $145,870
    From this org
    $130,214
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,656
    Hours/week
    40

  • Timothy Joseph Smith

    Vice President Digital Strategy

    Total calculated
    $119,296
    From this org
    $108,348
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,948
    Hours/week
    40

  • Abuko Estrada

    VP Medicaid & Child Health Policy

    Total calculated
    $117,086
    From this org
    $106,563
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,523
    Hours/week
    40

  • Anthony Chapple

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Glenn Flores

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dennis Johnson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joe Payne

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Suzanna Valdez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Roberto Viramontes

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michelle Apodaca

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michael C Laracy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Governor Ronnie Musgrove

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,941,772
    Expenses
    $3,156,470
    Contributions
    $5,915,396
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,924,247
    Expenses
    $3,550,260
    Contributions
    $2,899,908
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,931,886
    Expenses
    $3,129,831
    Contributions
    $1,885,811
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,638,656
    Expenses
    $2,850,798
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,128,329

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,045,271
    Expenses
    $2,445,695
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,320,774

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,832,112
    Expenses
    $2,325,476
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,758,728

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,764,845
    Expenses
    $2,561,874
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,346,119

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,464,602
    Expenses
    $2,565,547
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,354,193

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.