Global Fatherhood Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 465527373
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Brooklyn Park, MN, USA
- Phone
- 7632059643
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Parent Agencies
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $487,485
- Expenses
- $478,146
- Assets
- $27,040
- Liabilities
- $15,630
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SAMUEL MWANGI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- SAMUEL MWANGI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- KOLLIE HENSON (SECRETARY)
- MERCY MUNENE (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
To help fathers with their unexpected transition to fatherhood and offer guidance to meeting daily life challenges from an experienced coach and a role model. There is a compelling need for an organization whose sole focus is to inspire, mentor, empower and support gender equity.
What it reported doing in 2025
The global fatherhood award promotes gender equality in parenting, effective fathering practices and a greater understanding of the value of both parents roles. The award encourages healthy father-child relationships and better the lives of fathers everywhere. The efforts are put forth to pormote diversity and geared toward strengthening local economies by increasing diversity, which is one of the best ways to ensure the sustainability of the economy and provide excellent customer service over the long term. The organization success is geared on the creation of educational programs, mental health programs, fatherhood nurturing programs, youth engagement, and initiatives that focus on promoting diversity in learning. The organization partners with local schools, colleges and universities to creat opportunities for healthcare students from diverse backgrounds to gain access to higher education. This is done by providing financial support services, mentorship programs or job skills readiness opportunities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 98% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 65% for direct work, and 35% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 59
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.6%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 65.8%; rating input score 66
- Fundraising efficiency: $72.71 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
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: 0%; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.9%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.58; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 31.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.6% of revenue deployed · 65.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $315K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.