Fathers Club Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831803673
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Overland Park, KS, USA
- Phone
- 9136202154
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $269,922
- Expenses
- $277,660
- Assets
- $184,174
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brad Holdhusen (President)
People named in this filing
- Brad Holdhusen (President)
- Jason Terry (Secretary)
- Kevin Easterday (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Primary exempt purpose of The Fathers Club is a dad led, grassroots effort creating simple ways for dads to be intentional with their kids, with other dads and within their community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Student Program Events and Activites, during the year, the Fathers Club held dozens events in a variety of schools throughout the member campuses. These include free food and fellowship during finals week, homecoming week or other special events. Dads show up to distribute the food and encourage the students with greetings and hugs. The student enrollment of the campuses that are part of the Fathers Club is in excess of 50,000 and the majority of these students were either directly or indirectly involved. Community, Parent, Teacher and Staff Events and Activities, during the year, the Fathers Club sponsored several events that celebrated, recognized and thanked teachers and other school staff, students parents and supporters. Events included sporting event tailgates and promotional events. It is estimated that a large majority of the 1,500 Fathers Club members, many nonmember parents, and hundreds of teachers and staff were involved, either directly or indir
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 58% for direct work, and 42% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.6%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 67.3%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th 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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.9%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.6% of revenue deployed · 67.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $187K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.