Father Matters Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911846806
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Tempe, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6027743298
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $158,237
- Expenses
- $375,656
- Assets
- $135,239
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Vance Simms (President/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Jessica Beresford (Director Of Operations): $52,423 total reported compensation
- Vance Simms (President/CEO): $52,423 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Father Matters is committed to empowering individuals, strengthening families, and building healthier communities by providing comprehensive, person-centered services that remove barriers to success. We serve socially and economically underserved populations through employment and workforce development, reentry services, parenting education, family reunification, supervised visitation, SNAP outreach, and personalized case management. Our team connects participants to essential resources, including food assistance, clothing and household goods, transportation support, work-related supplies, housing navigation, education, healthcare, and other community-based services. Through collaborative partnerships, community resource fairs, evidence-based programs, and compassionate support, Father Matters helps individuals and families achieve stability, strengthen relationships, increase self-sufficiency, and create lasting opportunities for long-term personal, family, and economic success.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our first major accomplishment in 2025 was delivering comprehensive case management and skill-building services that empowered individuals and families to achieve greater stability, self-sufficiency, and long-term success. Through personalized case management, our team worked one-on-one with participants to identify goals, develop individualized action plans, address barriers, and connect them to essential resources. Services included SNAP outreach and application assistance, employment and educational opportunities, job readiness training, housing navigation, transportation assistance, work shoe vouchers, birth certificate and identification fee vouchers, family reunification services, parenting support, and other supportive services tailored to each participant's unique needs. To further strengthen outcomes, Father Matters provided workshops in life skills, workforce development, financial literacy, parenting, digital literacy, and personal development, equipping participants with the knowledge, confidence, and practical tools needed to secure employment, strengthen their families, increase financial stability, and build a foundation for long-term personal and economic success.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 67
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 77.3%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -137.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.9%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 77.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $290K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $52K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.