Texas · Nonprofit
ABIDING FATHERS
ABIDING FATHERS (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $810,562 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($269,530). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $241k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $811k
- Net assets
- $63k
What Abiding Fathers does
Mission
Encouraging, equipping and engaging men in developing their god-ordained leadership role as fathers in order to make disciples for the gospel of jesus christ.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Fathering 101, including fathers forums: Abiding Fathers' resources, including the booksfrom faith to faith and herramientas de papa (the dad's toolbox), introduce men to thebible's perspective of fatherhood, and provide tools, resources, community, and lots ofencouragement and support to encourage, equip, and engage men to be the dad godcreated them to be. Abiding Fathers also pursues discipleship relationships in the northtexas homeless community, men of nehemiah, local prisons, and more. In addition,mature fathers participate in facilitator training to become certified small-group facilitatorsthat will disciple other men within their organizations and/or communities. Over 100 menfrom the homeless community were discipled through the Abiding Fathers' curriculum atunion gospel mission. Currently, there are several prison units that are in some wayparticipating in equipping incarcerated fathers.fathers forums are typically breakfast or lunch meetings in intimate settings for 10 to 30men across the dfw metroplex to gather, hear a testimony or teaching by a father relatingto family and fatherhood, and participate in discussions related to the message. Currently,there is one fathers…
$170,585 spent$231,273 earned by the program46% of program spendingInternational ministry- padre de corazn (pdc), the hispanic ministry of Abiding Fathers: padre de corazn cuba. Despite many economic and social difficulties and the instability of the country due to power outages, lack of water, and poor telecommunications, we were able to expand and strengthen the ministry and its impact on the cuban people. Pastor raul gonzalez, pdc cuba national director, is working with three coordinators (east, central and west) to respond to the overwhelming requests for workshops and materials. They are working diligently to provide herramientas de papa (dad's tools) workshops, train facilitators, and collaborate with different denominations and the main prison ministry in the country.pdc cuba trained over 1800 men, including inmates in the prison system. In guantanamo maximum security prison, 17 inmates were served, with 4 more requests for participation. There has been significant transformation among life-sentence inmates, many sentenced for severe crimes, as they explore biblical fatherhood and reconciliation. Officers and re-educators have been impacted and some requested bibles.in manzanillo, granma prison system, 28 inmates attended workshops, with…
$168,806 spent$9,454 earned by the program46% of program spendingInternational ministry- padre de corazn (pdc), the hispanic ministry of Abiding Fathers: padre de corazn ecuador. In ecuador, the demand for workshops continues. Pastor bonilla and pastor castro's schedule is full 6-7 days a week, with up to 3 workshops on some days, in the guayaquil area alone. Ecuador's outreach impacted over 4,400 men, including programs training men to be christ-centered dads at 7 private schools.padre de corazn ecuador launched its first 2024 conference for 720 fifth-year medical students at the university of guayaquil, focusing on "how the absence of a father impacts the family and society." students actively engaged in discussions and expressed enthusiasm for continuing workshops in december 2024, requesting their professor to arrange additional sessions with padre de corazn.
$29,192 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $368,583.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $152k to $385k (+153%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
90% of ABIDING FATHERS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Rafael Gutierrez
Executive director
Board chair
Tom Pritzkau
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $17k → $244k.
7 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ABIDING FATHERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ABIDING FATHERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ABIDING FATHERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 78% · 2019 61% · 2020 66% · 2021 92% · 2022 49% · 2023 41% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
60% of ABIDING FATHERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
76% of ABIDING FATHERS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $194k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $617k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ABIDING FATHERS has grown faster than half of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ABIDING FATHERS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ABIDING FATHERS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ABIDING FATHERS?
- ABIDING FATHERS (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $810,562 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($269,530). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ABIDING FATHERS have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $810,562 in grants to ABIDING FATHERS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ABIDING FATHERS?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $269,530 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ABIDING FATHERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing