Illinois · Nonprofit
MR DAD FATHERS CLUB
MR DAD FATHERS CLUB (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,059 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $495k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $165k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Mr Dad Fathers Club does
Mission
Igniting the power of fatherhood reconnecting fathers and positive male mentors with their children's lives is our unwavering mission. Through transformative mentoring and literacy initiatives, we equip children with the tools to excel academically and develop essential social-emotional skills.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Chicago 1st fund, services to provide community level engagement, education and application assistance support citywide early childhood enrollment
$419,826 spent100% of program spendingIllinois parent mentor program
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $419,826.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1k to $21k (+1532%).
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: 2024 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of MR DAD FATHERS CLUB’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $50k → $23k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 MR DAD FATHERS CLUB’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
MR DAD FATHERS CLUB has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
94% 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 MR DAD FATHERS CLUB.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 65% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of MR DAD FATHERS CLUB's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73k 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
MR DAD FATHERS CLUB has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MR DAD FATHERS CLUB
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MR DAD FATHERS CLUB: 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 MR DAD FATHERS CLUB?
- MR DAD FATHERS CLUB (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,059 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MR DAD FATHERS CLUB have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $165,059 in grants to MR DAD FATHERS CLUB.
- Who is the largest funder of MR DAD FATHERS CLUB?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MR DAD FATHERS CLUB find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 9 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