Fatherhood Foundations

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
933616807
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Kansas City, MO, USA
Phone
9729354613
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$212,871
Expenses
$266,618
Assets
$48,910
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DONALD LEWIS (PRESIDENT)
  • DEREK BEREIT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • PHILIP BRAMLETT (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • DEREK BEREIT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $77,100 total reported compensation
  • DONALD LEWIS (PRESIDENT): $58,100 total reported compensation
  • PHILIP BRAMLETT (VICE PRESIDENT): $10,290 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Fatherhood foundations empowers at-risk men, women, and families through evidence-based fatherhood education, trauma healing care, and faith-centered mentoring. We work alongside partner organizations operating in shelters, treatment centers, and correctional institutions, offering scalable programs that restore families, increase community safety, support sober living, and reduce recidivism. Through strategic partnerships, we provide legal referrals, child support services, job access, and housing connectionsserving hundreds annually with measurable outcomes in parenting confidence, employment, sobriety, and family reunification.

What it reported doing in 2025

Prison services correctional facilitiesfatherhood foundations provides in-prison parenting and reentry programs for incarcerated fathers using the nationally recognized insideout dad curriculum. Our facilitators offer weekly classes focused on rebuilding relationships with children, developing emotional maturity, and preparing for reintegration into family and community life. Program graduates earn financial credit toward state-owed child support obligationscreating tangible incentives for personal growth and family responsibility. We serve facilities such as lansing correctional facility (Kansas) and the transition center of Kansas city (Missouri), equipping fathers with tools to reenter society with purpose, accountability, and renewed connection to their children.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

STRONG - 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: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 72
  • Sustainability: 17
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 88.5%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: $27.89 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -25.2%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 58%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 48.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -26.4% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -70.9% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $236K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $77K · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.