Fellowship of Fathers Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
453687069
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Dallas, TX, USA
Phone
6033810338
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Family Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$749,935
Expenses
$689,410
Assets
$250,818
Liabilities
$9,271

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

People named in this filing

  • KEVIN BRYANT (DIRECTOR)
  • JOE CORTALE (DIRECTOR)
  • CLIFTON COUFAL (DIRECTOR)

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

Fellowship of fathers exists to strengthen fathers, family and faith in the united states and around the world. The organization accomplishes these goals through publications, speeches, partnership programs with other well respected charities, seminars, a vibrant internet presence and other support materials. Fellowship of fathers encourages and supports fatherhood and family seminars around the world.

What it reported doing in 2025

Literature & publications: fellowship of fathers partnered with the us based national fatherhood initiative (nfi)to publish "help our military - every dad" to strengthen relationships between active duty us military fathers and their families. This program continues to provide participating chaplains free "fatherhood support kits" consisting of the best selling book "be a better dad today- and "ten tools every father needs", along with faith and family strengthening materials, including a members only fatherhood services website "www.fellowshipoffathers.com). Numerous church based mens groups also use these materials for retreats and on-going fatherhood training.

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

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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 58
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 89.1%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 97%; rating input score 97
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 25th 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: 8.1%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 89.1% of revenue deployed · 97% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $669K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2012 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.