- Revenue 2024
- $5,543,435
- Expenses 2024
- $4,303,041
Program services were 85.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- P60
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 600 N BELL AVENUE BUILDING 1 115
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
As an extension of Christ's love, FOCUS serves the hungry, thirsty, stranger, naked, sick, and imprisoned by providing food, occupation, clothing, understanding, and shelter.
Activities or mission (Part I)
FOCUS exists to serve the poor by providing food occupation cloth ing understanding and shelter
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St. Hermans FOCUS Cleveland - this program of FOCUS North America operates in and around the Cleveland OH area and prvides: 1. housing for homeless men as well as temporary housing for those transitioning from homelessness to self-sufficiency, 2. three meals per day, 365 days per year for the men in their housing as well as the surrounding community, 3. distribution of food to families and those in need, 4. distribution of clothing and hygiene items, and 5. case management services. In 2024, St Hermans provided 8,351 nights of lodging, served 61,619 meals, and distributed over $160,000 worth of clothing and hygiene items.
Expenses $1,096,543 · Grants $480,417 · Revenue $1,902,029
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FOCUS Minnesota - this program, operated in the twin city area of MN, provides: 1. lunches and meals to those in need in the community, 2. distribution of food items, 3. distribution of clothing and hygiene items, and 4. a food delivery program for those who are unable to get out of their homes. In 2024,provided over 38,562 meals and distributed 50,446 pounds of food and $516,000 of clothing and hygiene items.
Expenses $984,142 · Grants $709,835 · Revenue $998,895
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FOCUS Orange County (formerly, FOCUS SoCal)operated by FOCUS in and around Orange County, CA receives bulk food, clothing, and household items and distributes them to those in need. In 2024, FOCUS Orange County distribruted over 171,940 pounds of food and Over $179,000 of clithing and hygiene items.
Expenses $647,912 · Grants $444,500 · Revenue $631,305
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Expenses $930,108 · Grants $127,386 · Revenue $2,011,206
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
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.
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David SmeltzerDAVID SMELTZER
CFO
- Total calculated
- $129,087
- From this org
- $129,087
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 29
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Kenneth KiddKENNETH KIDD
Ex Dir thru 731
- Total calculated
- $74,994
- From this org
- $74,994
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Steven ChristoforouSTEVEN CHRISTOFOROU
Ex Dir from 81
- Total calculated
- $54,033
- From this org
- $54,033
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 50
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Brian BullardBRIAN BULLARD
Chairman of the Board
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Georiga KazakisGEORIGA KAZAKIS
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Justin BoslJUSTIN BOSL
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Eric PaljugERIC PALJUG
ViceChair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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William CerniusWILLIAM CERNIUS
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Lory EastonLORY EASTON
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Andrew GelerisANDREW GELERIS
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Kartson DesipinaKARTSON DESIPINA
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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John SaadJOHN SAAD
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Brent SmithBRENT SMITH
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Kenneth KovakKENNETH KOVAK
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2024
- Revenue
- $5,543,435
- Expenses
- $4,303,041
- Contributions
- $4,616,696
- Grants paid
- $1,762,138
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2023
- Revenue
- $4,377,880
- Expenses
- $3,844,095
- Contributions
- $4,038,922
- Grants paid
- $1,725,232
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2022
- Revenue
- $6,543,733
- Expenses
- $3,470,910
- Contributions
- $6,404,144
- Grants paid
- $1,402,600
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,755,063
- Expenses
- $3,264,572
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,713,013
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $5,562,738
- Expenses
- $5,275,301
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,410,153
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,267,009
- Expenses
- $2,366,717
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,848,673
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,451,878
- Expenses
- $2,824,127
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,540,252
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $5,329,098
- Expenses
- $4,829,737
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,868,654
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,598,868
- Expenses
- $4,474,254
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,439,397
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $9,544,748
- Expenses
- $9,398,703
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,286,161
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $8,727,933
- Expenses
- $8,679,504
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,103,478
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $6,952,627
- Expenses
- $6,350,206
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,052,686
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $2,172,059
- Assets (EOY)
- $395,123
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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.
Grants made
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Easterseals
no cash amount reported
2022 To assist the needy
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Easterseals
no cash amount reported
2023 To assist the needy
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Easterseals
no cash amount reported
2024 To assist the needy
Grants received
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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$81,694
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
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$76,321
2023
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$75,250
2022 ST HERMAN HOUSE OF FOCUS CLEVELAND - CAPITAL PROJECT
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2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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$54,800
2024 GRANT# 24.39 - GENERAL SUPPORT, COMMUNITY IMPACT GRANT, PRESIDENTIAL GRANTS
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$54,100
2022 GRANT# 22.40 - GENERAL OP SUPPORT - FOCUS, COMMUNITY IMPACT GRANT
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$52,600
2023 GRANT# 23.37 - GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT, COMMUNITY IMPACT GRANT, PRESIDENTIAL GRANTS, DONOR ADVISED GRANTS
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$50,000
2023 SUPPLEMENTING DIETS OF LOW-INCOME FAMILIES
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2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Taxable family
From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.
Disregarded entities on its 2024 return
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St Herman's FOCUS Cleveland
Homeless shelter · OH
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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.