Arizona · Nonprofit
FATHER MATTERS INC
FATHER MATTERS INC (Arizona) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,972 to it, the largest being VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ($86,535). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $158k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $148k
- Net assets
- $135k
What Father Matters Inc does
Mission
Father Matters is committed to empowering individuals, strengthening families, and building healthier communities by providing comprehensive, person-centered services that remove barriers to success. We serve socially and economically underserved populations through employment and workforce development, reentry services, parenting education, family reunification, supervised visitation, SNAP outreach, and personalized case management. Our team connects participants to essential resources, including food assistance, clothing and household goods, transportation support, work-related supplies, housing navigation, education, healthcare, and other community-based services. Through collaborative partnerships, community resource fairs, evidence-based programs, and compassionate support, Father Matters helps individuals and families achieve stability, strengthen relationships, increase self-sufficiency, and create lasting opportunities for long-term personal, family, and economic success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our first major accomplishment in 2025 was delivering comprehensive case management and skill-building services that empowered individuals and families to achieve greater stability, self-sufficiency, and long-term success. Through personalized case management, our team worked one-on-one with participants to identify goals, develop individualized action plans, address barriers, and connect them to essential resources. Services included SNAP outreach and application assistance, employment and educational opportunities, job readiness training, housing navigation, transportation assistance, work shoe vouchers, birth certificate and identification fee vouchers, family reunification services, parenting support, and other supportive services tailored to each participant's unique needs. To further strengthen outcomes, Father Matters provided workshops in life skills, workforce development, financial literacy, parenting, digital literacy, and personal development, equipping participants with the knowledge, confidence, and practical tools needed to secure employment, strengthen their families, increase financial stability, and build a foundation for long-term personal and economic success.
$149,913 spent$149,913 earned by the program52% of program spendingOur second key accomplishment in 2025 was expanding the impact of our Resource Room and Quarterly Resource Fairs by increasing access to essential goods and supportive services for individuals and families in need. In addition to distributing donated items, Father Matters purchased critical supplies to ensure participants had consistent access to necessities when donations were insufficient. These resources included food, hygiene products, clothing, shoes, household goods, school supplies, diapers, baby items, work-related supplies, and other essential items. The Resource Room serves as a vital hub for addressing immediate basic needs, while our Quarterly Resource Fairs connect participants with community partners, health and social service providers, employment resources, and public benefits. Together, these initiatives reduce barriers, improve access to critical resources, promote stability, and help individuals and families move toward greater self-sufficiency and long-term success.
$140,309 spent$140,309 earned by the program48% of program spending.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $290,222.
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 2024 to 2025, from $353k to $135k (−62%).
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: 2022 57% · 2023 94% · 2024 0% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FATHER MATTERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Vance Simms
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $10k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 MATTERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 10 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 MATTERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 MATTERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 75% · 2022 84% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
90% of FATHER MATTERS INC's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 MATTERS INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FATHER MATTERS 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% 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 FATHER MATTERS 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 FATHER MATTERS INC?
- FATHER MATTERS INC (Arizona) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,972 to it, the largest being VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ($86,535). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FATHER MATTERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $147,972 in grants to FATHER MATTERS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FATHER MATTERS INC?
- VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $86,535 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FATHER MATTERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 10 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