Michigan · Nonprofit
FATHER FRED FOUNDATION
FATHER FRED FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,803,177 to it, the largest being CHRIST CARES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ($606,247). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $8.3M
What Father Fred Foundation does
Mission
We offer help, hope and compassion to anyone with essential needs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation's onsite pantry operates much like a small grocery store providing fresh, dry, and frozen goods and personal care items for free to those struggling with food insecurity. In addition, the foundation provides the following food outreach programs to impoverished youth living in a 5-county region: blessings in a backpack provides evening and weekend food to students, pantry to preschool distributes unprepared meals and staple food items to families of young children who are unable to visit the onsite food pantry, and shine (summer health initiative to nourish everyone) provides snacks and easy-to-prepare meals for students who are homeless during the summer months without access to school-provided meals.
$1,493,586 spentof which $1,062,136 as grants52% of program spendingThe foundation's clothing and household goods department allow those in need to shop for free in what resembles a thrift store offering winter coats, boots, shoes, socks, clothing, dishes, pots, pans, linens, and more. In addition, the foundation offers special programs throughout the year providing items such as new shoes, boots, winter coats, and supplies to impoverished school children.
$832,525 spentof which $592,035 as grants29% of program spendingFoundation staff and volunteers listen to every story and offer financial assistance to those who can demonstrate a need. We leverage collaborative funds to help those experiencing utility shutoffs, rental deposits and evictions, unsafe vehicles in need of repair, and provide transportation vouchers for medical appointments.
$548,400 spentof which $378,655 as grants19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,874,511.
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 $10M to $8.3M (−18%).
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: 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of FATHER FRED FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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
Candice Hamel
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $148k → $331k.
13 of 72 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 FATHER FRED FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 funders by total. 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
FATHER FRED FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
42% 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 FATHER FRED FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 27% · 2019 30% · 2020 25% · 2021 47% · 2022 44% · 2023 28% — 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 FATHER FRED FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
FATHER FRED FOUNDATION draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
FATHER FRED FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 22 funders to 31 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FATHER FRED FOUNDATION
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: 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 FATHER FRED FOUNDATION?
- FATHER FRED FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,803,177 to it, the largest being CHRIST CARES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ($606,247). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FATHER FRED FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $2,803,177 in grants to FATHER FRED FOUNDATION, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FATHER FRED FOUNDATION?
- CHRIST CARES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $606,247 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FATHER FRED FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 72 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