Arizona · Nonprofit
FATHERS IN THE FIELD
FATHERS IN THE FIELD (Arizona) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,452,649 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($560,876). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Fathers in the Field does
Mission
To rekindle and establish the spirit of boys who have been abandoned by their fathers; mentoring them one-on-one in life skills through outdoor activities, and by sharing a christian understanding of our heavenly father's love and sacrifice for his children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Steady national expansion continues with the Fathers in the Field equipping ministry. We are engaged in 36 states with over 500 churches and have raised 10 full-time missionaries who are working with local churches to equip them to start a mentoring ministry for fatherless boys and to be a voice for fatherless across this nation. The ministry was established to actively address broken hearts, share the need for forgiveness, and help stop the cycle of abandonment and destruction that occurs in the nearly 25 million fatherless children under the age of 18. We focus on three critical objectives in reaching and rescuing fatherless boys as we mobilize 6,000 volunteer hours per church helping their community. Train and equip local churches: regional field missionaries engage the local churches to provide methodology, materials, training and coaching, and encouragement to inspire the church staff and congregation and to reach out to single mothers who have sons in the community. Intentional mentoring: the power of this ministry is getting men in the church to invest in a 3-year mentoring commitment into one boy's life of discipleship, character development, and healing through the holy…
$1,463,510 spent$58,710 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,463,510.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $2.3M (+34%).
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: 2020 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of FATHERS IN THE FIELD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $156k → $447k.
18 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 FATHERS IN THE FIELD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
FATHERS IN THE FIELD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
65% 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 FATHERS IN THE FIELD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 53% · 2019 48% · 2020 26% · 2021 38% · 2022 24% · 2023 33% — 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 FATHERS IN THE FIELD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
60% of FATHERS IN THE FIELD'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 $980k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
FATHERS IN THE FIELD runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FATHERS IN THE FIELD
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FATHERS IN THE FIELD?
- FATHERS IN THE FIELD (Arizona) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,452,649 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($560,876). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FATHERS IN THE FIELD have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,452,649 in grants to FATHERS IN THE FIELD, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FATHERS IN THE FIELD?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $560,876 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FATHERS IN THE FIELD 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 35 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing