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Financial Planning First, LLC

Tuscon, AZSEC-registered investment adviserCRD 319273

Filed as FINANCIAL PLANNING FIRST, LLC

Financial Planning First, LLC is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in Tuscon, AZ, registered since 2025, reporting $100 million to $500 million in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated March 9, 2026.

0 years
registered since 2025
$113,861,377
assets under management
3 arrangements
Percentage of assets, Hourly and more
1
disclosure items (Item 11)

Quick answers

From the filing

How is Financial Planning First, LLC compensated?

On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), Financial Planning First, LLC reports these compensation arrangements: a percentage of assets under its management; hourly charges; fixed fees (other than subscription fees).

Where is Financial Planning First, LLC located?

Financial Planning First, LLC's principal office is in Tuscon, AZ, according to its Form ADV.

Is Financial Planning First, LLC registered with the SEC or a state?

Financial Planning First, LLC is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 2025. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 319273.

How much does Financial Planning First, LLC manage?

Financial Planning First, LLC reports $113,861,377 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated March 9, 2026 (100% discretionary).

How have Financial Planning First, LLC's assets and staff changed since 2022?

In the Form ADV data for Financial Planning First, LLC: Regulatory assets under management: $71,378,777 in the October 2022 data and $113,861,377 in the October 2026 data, up 60%. Total employees: 2 in October 2022 and 3 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.

What types of clients does Financial Planning First, LLC serve?

By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: individuals (other than high net worth individuals) (260); high net worth individuals (31); pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans) (5).

Which custodians does Financial Planning First, LLC use?

Financial Planning First, LLC's most recent Form ADV filing (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)) lists Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. as a custodian holding 10% or more of its separately managed account assets.

Does Financial Planning First, LLC report any disciplinary disclosures?

Reports 1 disclosure item on Form ADV Item 11: yes answers to 11.E(2) (self-regulatory organization's finding of a rule violation). Each question covers the firm and its advisory affiliates, and one event can produce several yes answers. The detail of any item is on the firm's SEC record: https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/319273

From the Form ADV filing

Every figure below is as the firm filed it with regulators, as of October 2026.

How the firm is compensated

Item 5.E
  • A percentage of assets under your management
  • Hourly charges
  • Fixed fees (other than subscription fees)

Item 5.E lists how the firm is compensated for its advice; Items 5.B, 6.A, and 7.A show whether its people or related companies can also earn commissions. Percentage of assets, fixed, hourly, subscription, and performance-based fees come from clients (a performance-based fee depends on investment results); commissions come with a sale or a trade, often from the company behind the product. How fees, commissions, and other arrangements differ

Fees and minimums

Form ADV Part 2A

The brochure lists different fees for different services or strategies. See the firm's brochure (dated March 9, 2026) for its fees and any account minimum, on the SEC's IAPD site.

Regulatory assets under management

Item 5.F
$113,861,377

$113,861,377 as of October 2026, filing dated March 9, 2026.

Discretionary: $113,432,419.Non-discretionary: $428,958.

A measure of scale, not skill or returns. Discretionary means the firm decides trades; non-discretionary means clients approve each one. What assets under management means

Who the firm serves

Item 5.D
Individuals (other than high net worth individuals)
Clients 260 Assets $49,423,177 (43%)
High net worth individuals
Clients 31 Assets $57,519,497 (51%)
Banking or thrift institutions
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Investment companies
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Business development companies
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies and business development companies)
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans)
Clients 5 Assets $6,357,392 (6%)
Charitable organizations
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets $561,311 (0%)
State or municipal government entities (including government pension plans)
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Other investment advisers
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Insurance companies
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Sovereign wealth funds and foreign official institutions
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Corporations or other businesses not listed above
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)

A firm with no individual clients is an institutional manager even if it manages billions; the mix tells you whom the practice is built around.

Advisory services

Item 5.G
  • Financial planning services
  • Portfolio management for individuals and/or small businesses
  • Portfolio management for businesses (other than small businesses) or institutional clients
  • Pension consulting services
  • Selection of other advisers (including private fund managers)

Registration and firm details

Items 1, 2, 5
Registration
SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
Registered since
2025 (0 years)
Employees
Total: 3. Performing investment advisory functions: 1.
Wrap fee program participation
Yes.
Custodians (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3))

Custodians holding 10% or more of the firm's separately managed account assets, as filed on Form ADV (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)). A custodian holds client assets; it does not endorse or supervise the firm. AdvisorCensus has no relationship with any custodian.

States registered or notice-filed
8 states or jurisdictions
AZCAFLIDNYTXVAWA

SEC-registered investment advisers are examined by the SEC. SEC, state, and exempt registration

Disclosures

Item 11

1 Reports 1 disclosure item on Form ADV Item 11. View on IAPD.

Questions answered yes on this filing

Regulatory matters Items 11.C to 11.G

  • 11.E(2) Has a self-regulatory organization or a commodities exchange ever found that the firm or an advisory affiliate was involved in a violation of its rules, other than a minor rule violation under a plan the SEC approved?

Each question covers the firm and its advisory affiliates: its current employees other than clerical staff, its officers, partners, and directors, and anyone who controls the firm or is controlled by it. One event can produce yes answers to several questions. SEC-registered advisers and exempt reporting advisers may leave out events more than ten years old, and may answer 11.A(2) and 11.B(2) for pending charges only. What happened, and who was involved, is on the Disclosure Reporting Pages of the IAPD record. Reading a firm's disclosures

Assets and staff over time

Items 5.A, 5.F
$71.4M 2022 $114M 2026
Data periodAssets under managementEmployeesFiling dated
October 2026$113,861,3773March 9, 2026
October 2022$71,378,7772September 29, 2022

Regulatory assets under management: $71,378,777 in the October 2022 data and $113,861,377 in the October 2026 data, up 60%.

Total employees: 2 in October 2022 and 3 in October 2026.

As filed in each year's data for the same month. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going; they measure scale, not skill or returns. Most firms update these figures once a year.

Changes in the filing

Last 12 months

No changes to these filed facts in the last 12 months of filing data.

Compared month to month from the SEC's monthly adviser data and the state compilation feed. Owners and control persons are summarized, never named.

Websites listed on Form ADV

Item 1.I
financialplanningfirst.comfpftucson.com

Source: Form ADV, as of October 2026. Values appear as filed; a value the firm did not report is shown as "Not reported."

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AdvisorCensus. Financial Planning First, LLC (CRD 319273): Form ADV filing data as of October 2026.
https://advisorcensus.com/firm/financial-planning-first-llc-tuscon-az-319273