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Mentor Charitable Fund Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$91k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$51kFood & Nutrition$42kEnvironment$37kArts & Culture$29kHealth$26kHousing & Shelter$23kCivil Rights$20kEducation$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$7,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$419k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$7,000
HANDS ON NATURE$7,000
JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER$7,000
GREEN ROOTS$7,000
MIRA COALITION$7,000
IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER$7,000
Individual grant recipient$7,000
RESCUE CHARLIE'S FRIENDS$7,000
FOR KIDS ONLY AFTERSCHOOL$7,000
THE BIKE CONNECTOR INC$7,000
PETTENGILL HOUSE$7,000
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORG$7,000
WE CAN$7,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WE CAN: $7k → 8%WE CAN: $3k → 8%GROWING PLACES: $3k → 11%FOR KIDS ONLY AFTERSCHOOL: $7k → 16%FOR KIDS ONLY AFTERSCHOOL: $3k → 16%PETTENGILL HOUSE: $7k → 10%PETTENGILL HOUSE: $3k → 10%JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER: $7k → 10%OUR NEIGHBOR'S TABLE: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$275k · 30 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
11

Total granted

$275k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+145%

Still filing today

67%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthEnvironmentHousing & ShelterEmploymentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $14k · revenue +76%
  • HO
    HANDS ON NATURE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +12%
  • FOR KIDS ONLY AFTERSCHOOL INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • ON
    Our Neighbors' Table Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
  • JI
    JUMP INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • BC
    Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -100%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
2
Berkshire Grown Inc

Through events, workshops, promotions, advocacy and education highlighting locally-grown and produced food, the organization helps to create a thriving local food economy.

Food & Nutrition
3
Boston Public Market Association Inc

Our mission is to continue to develop and operate a permanent year-round market in boston and to support the farmers, fishers, and entrepreneurs who grow, catch, and produce local food, and to nourish our community with food and…

Public Benefit
4
Walkboston Inc

Walkmassachusetts makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.

Unclassified
5
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…

6
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
7
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
8
Food Link Inc

Food link is working to create a more equitable food system throughout greater boston by rescuing and distributing high-quality, customized food to under-resourced communities and by advocating for systems change.

Food & Nutrition
9
Root Ns Inc

Root's mission is to help young adults create a pathway to independence through food service training and employment. by developing essential life and work readiness skills, youth leave root prepared for success in the workplace.

Food & Nutrition
10
Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc

The mission of Massachusetts Avenue Project is to nurture the growth of a diverse and equitable community food system and promote local economic opportunities, access to affordable, nutritious food and social-change education.

Human Services
11
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.

Housing & Shelter
12
Gardens for Health International

Gardens for Health International works to provide lasting agricultural solutions to chronic childhood malnutrition

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Growing Places Garden Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rescue Charlies Friends. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHistoric Preservation Organ…Homeless Services & HousingEarly Childhood Education C…Youth & Community Developme…Community Food Pantries
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%14%5–10yr20%36%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr14%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%16%5–10yr20%38%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr14%0%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
11%
2,734/25,666

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
18/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BRAIN ARTS PROJECT — $13,600 · OtherBRAIN ARTS PROJECTFAMILY SVCS OF MERRIMACK VALLEY — $12,800 · OtherFAMILY SVCS OF MERRIMACK VALLEYIndividual grant recipient — $10,400 · OtherTHE BIKE CONNECTOR INC — $10,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,200 · OtherMERIMACK BLACK AND BROWN VOICES — $10,200 · OtherMETRO HOUSING BOSTON — $10,200 · OtherFRIDAY NIGHT SUPPER INC — $10,200 · OtherELIOT SCHOOL OF FINE APPLIED ARTS — $9,000 · OtherTHE IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER INC — $7,000 · OtherYOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORG — $7,000 · OtherHANDS ON NATURE INC — $10,400 · OtherBREAKTIME UNITED INC — $10,200 · OtherRESCUE CHARLIES FRIENDS — $7,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC — $7,000 · Other+13 more — $51,800 · Other+13 moreWE CAN CORPORATION — $10,400 · Human ServicesWE CAN CORPORA…FOR KIDS ONLY AFTERSCHOOL INC — $10,400 · Human ServicesFOR KIDS ONLY …The Pettengill House Inc — $10,400 · Human ServicesThe Pettengill…JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesJEANNE GEIGER …Our Neighbors' Table Inc — $3,400 · Human ServicesOur Neighbors'…GROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECT INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesGROWING PLACES…THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC — $13,600 · Food & NutritionTHREE SISTER…ABOUT FRESH INC — $9,000 · Food & NutritionABOUT FRESH …MILL CITY GROWS INC — $6,800 · Food & NutritionMILL CITY GR…BACKYARD GROWERS INC — $6,800 · Food & NutritionBACKYARD GRO…BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC — $3,000 · Food & NutritionBOSTON AREA …Healthy Waltham Inc — $10,200 · HealthLAST MILE HEALTH — $6,800 · HealthTHE METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM INC — $6,000 · HealthGREENROOTS INC — $7,000 · EnvironmentWILDLANDS TRUST INC — $6,000 · EnvironmentINNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC — $12,800 · Recreation & SportsHEADING HOME INC — $6,800 · Housing & ShelterLAZARUS HOUSE INC — $6,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$207,800Human Services$44,600Food & Nutrition$39,200Health$23,000Environment$13,000Recreation & Sports$12,800Housing & Shelter$12,800

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC — $13,600 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetINNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC — $12,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHANDS ON NATURE INC — $10,400 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetWE CAN CORPORATION — $10,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOR KIDS ONLY AFTERSCHOOL INC — $10,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pettengill House Inc — $10,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BIKE CONNECTOR INC — $10,400 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBREAKTIME UNITED INC — $10,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHealthy Waltham Inc — $10,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetABOUT FRESH INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRESCUE CHARLIES FRIENDS — $7,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENROOTS INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $6,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAST MILE HEALTH — $6,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILL CITY GROWS INC — $6,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEADING HOME INC — $6,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBACKYARD GROWERS INC — $6,800 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPOLITICAL ASYLUMIMMIGRATION REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM INC — $6,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWILDLANDS TRUST INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVKIDS INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOur Neighbors' Table Inc — $3,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECT INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA38.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Point32health Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Analog Devices Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Mentor Charitable Fund Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Growing Places Garden Project Inc49% of income from government
  • Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc40% of income from government
  • The Immigrant Learning Center Inc34% of income from government
  • For Kids Only Afterschool Inc29% of income from government
  • Boston Area Gleaners Inc20% of income from government
  • Heading Home Inc17% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc8% of income from government
  • Our Neighbors' Table Inc8% of income from government
  • Mill City Grows Inc7% of income from government
  • Wildlands Trust Inc5% of income from government
  • Evkids Inc4% of income from government
  • Three Sisters Garden Project Inc2% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc2% of income from government
  • Greenroots Inc1% of income from government
  • Breaktime United Inc1% of income from government
  • Lazarus House Inc1% of income from government
  • We Can Corporation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Mentor Charitable Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Mentor Charitable Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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