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Center for Fathers and Families

Center for Fathers and Families (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $378,099 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($105,121). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$4.5M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$378k
Net assets
$3.0M
7/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Center for Fathers and Families does

Mission

To strengthen families and build communities through re-establishing the important institution of fatherhood.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The center provides programs and services that concentrate on the education and development of the fathers family and youth in the community. The programs include education counseling and support services such as parenting classes and after school programs.

    $3,461,919 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. N a

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. N a

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,461,919.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($2.5M) Net assets 100 ($1.9M)2018 Revenue 94 ($2.5M) Expenses 93 ($2.3M) Net assets 106 ($2.1M)2019 Revenue 90 ($2.3M) Expenses 91 ($2.3M) Net assets 109 ($2.1M)2020 Revenue 60 ($1.6M) Expenses 84 ($2.1M) Net assets 79 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 70 ($1.8M) Expenses 84 ($2.1M) Net assets 64 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 96 ($2.5M) Expenses 87 ($2.2M) Net assets 81 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 146 ($3.8M) Expenses 124 ($3.1M) Net assets 114 ($2.2M)2025 Revenue 175 ($4.5M) Expenses 159 ($4.0M) Net assets 155 ($3.0M)
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Revenue (175)Expenses (159)Net assets (155)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.6M to $2.3M (+40%).

$1.9M
$2.1M
$2.1M
$1.9M
$1.7M
$1.6M
$2.3M
$3.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2020 88% · 2021 77% · 2022 83% · 2023 96% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of Center for Fathers and Families’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$75k
’17
$101k
’18
$39k
’19
−$554k
’20
−$281k
’21
$320k
’22
$643k
’23
$540k
’25
4.5
months of
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.

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Listed141415151414141412
Joined·+1+2+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·11010002
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $41k → $55k.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 Center for Fathers and Families’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

Center for Fathers and Families leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

69% 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 Center for Fathers and Families.

28%
largest funder
64%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 100% · 2019 31% · 2020 34% · 2021 39% · 2022 62% · 2023 40% — 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

67% of Center for Fathers and Families's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

55% of Center for Fathers and Families'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 $170k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from California funders.

CA
MO
DE
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $208k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Center for Fathers and Families runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve4.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Center for Fathers and Families

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

11
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Center for Fathers and Families?
Center for Fathers and Families (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $378,099 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($105,121). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Center for Fathers and Families have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $378,099 in grants to Center for Fathers and Families, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Center for Fathers and Families?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $105,121 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Center for Fathers and Families find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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