Ohio · Nonprofit
Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons
Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons (Ohio) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,533,716 to it, the largest being MDRC ($685,576). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $333k
What Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons does
Mission
Part III, Line 4b 2nd Acc Specialized Services for Non-Support Offenders: Local judges sentence low-level offenders who are not paying their child support (called non-support offenders to this Cuyahoga County Funded program in lieu of jail time. Through Specialized services for Non-Support Offenders, Dr. Brian Moore, Passages Founder and Executive Director, delivers nationally acclaimed Fatherhood Development: A curriculum for young fathers desighned by Partners for Fragile Families and authored by Pamela Wilson, MSW and Jeffery M. Johnson, PHD. Approximetaly 20-30 fathers visit Passages once a week during a 12- week period for two hours at a time to discuss and build their personal development, life and relationships skills. Dr. Moore and two of his employees are Master Trainer Cert Contiuation Dr. Moor and two of his employess are Master Trainer Certified in teh Fatherhood Development Curriculum.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
JOBS FOR DADS - A broad wor??force development, fatherhood/parenthood deyelopment and life skills program that serves 450-500 men and women annually in our three-county service area. (Cuyahoga,Lorain, and Portage Counties) 75% of program particiants successfully complete the program; 10% elect to pursue college or vocational programming; 50% are gainfully employed within 90 days of completing the program. Passages continues to assist the target population with on-going comprehensive case management for at one year after program completion/ job placement.
$2,151,848 spent$1,708,351 earned by the program100% of program spendingEmp-cbi- this intervention is designed for clients who are moderate to high need in the area of employment in the oras-cst. This intervention relies on a cognitive behavior approach to teach participants strategies for identifying and managing risky situations related to obtaining and maintaining employment. The intervention is designed for flexibility in dosage; it is delivered typically as designed by the university of cincinanati criminal justice institute or additional advance practive sessions for higher dosages, or modified for lower dosages. Clients attend 20-3 hour sessions over the period of one month. Approximately 575-600 individuals participate in this program per year
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,151,848.
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 2023 to 2024, from $597k to $899k (+51%).
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 26% · 2018 35% · 2019 56% · 2020 35% · 2021 12% · 2022 21% · 2023 16% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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
Brian A Moore
Executive Director
Board chair
Frank Hairston
Interim Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $179k → $308k.
2 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons’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
Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
60% 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 Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 77% · 2019 39% · 2020 38% · 2021 26% · 2022 23% · 2023 45% — 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
36% of Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons'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
67% of Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $267k 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
Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons has grown faster than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$5.9M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons
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 Ohio
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
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 Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons: 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 Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons?
- Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons (Ohio) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,533,716 to it, the largest being MDRC ($685,576). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,533,716 in grants to Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons?
- MDRC is the largest funder on record, with $685,576 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 23 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