Tennessee · Nonprofit
FAMILIES MATTER INC
FAMILIES MATTER INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $683,362 to it, the largest being CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS ($259,061). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.4M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $683k
- Net assets
- $465k
What Families Matter Inc does
Mission
The root cause of many of the problems memphis is facing in child care, youth violence, education, spousal abuse, and crime can be traced to the breakdown of families. Accordingly, the families matter, inc. Mission is to increase the number of healthy, loving, caring families through a community-wide effort.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Afirm is a part of a study funded by the tennessee department of human services which is being conducted to determine how these pilot programs help people improve their economic well-being. Afirm invests in memphis' fathers by building capacity to reduce dependency. It establishes a pathway to the goal of equipping fathers to provide emotionally and financially for their children.a father's involvement really matters (afirm)
$6,140,850 spentof which $1,154,395 as grants98% of program spendingPrinciples of manhood curriculum is so requested that it is challenging our ability to fill all requests. The effectiveness of this program is now garnered to support students with elementary, middle and high school students teaching the basic rules of healthy social engagement increasing the emotional intelligence of the learner.
$57,981 spent1% of program spendingFamilies matter's reach within the church community increases as we build relationships with several organizations who are pastor led. As memphis' communities struggle with crime and other social ills, we offer solutions assisting clergy in training staff while supporting their family ministries.
$73,716 spent1% of program spendingThe healthy relationship curriculum and the facilitated services of the outreach educator is being provided to additional instructors supporting students in achieving success in life as requested by career and technology supervisors and principals in schools.
$199 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,272,746.
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 2022 to 2023, from $356k to $1.9M (+423%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 27% · 2019 18% · 2020 27% · 2021 37% · 2022 17% · 2023 83% · 2024 94% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FAMILIES MATTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Carol Jackson
Executive director
Board chair
Ken Glass
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $106k → $70k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 FAMILIES MATTER INC’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
FAMILIES MATTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 FAMILIES MATTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 74% · 2019 40% · 2020 68% · 2021 35% · 2022 45% · 2023 64% — growing more concentrated.
“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
57% of FAMILIES MATTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
53% of FAMILIES MATTER INC'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 $321k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $362k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FAMILIES MATTER INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FAMILIES MATTER INC
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILIES MATTER INC: 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 FAMILIES MATTER INC?
- FAMILIES MATTER INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $683,362 to it, the largest being CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS ($259,061). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FAMILIES MATTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $683,362 in grants to FAMILIES MATTER INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILIES MATTER INC?
- CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS is the largest funder on record, with $259,061 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILIES MATTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 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