How much did MENTOR CHARITABLE FUND INC grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of MENTOR CHARITABLE FUND INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

—

2021

boston

2022

boston

2023

boston

2024

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2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$7,000

Median grant

States reached

$661k

Total assets

Largest grants

RESCUE CHARLIE'S FRIENDS$7,000
HEART AND SOIL$7,000
PETTENGILL HOUSE$7,000
FOR KIDS ONLY AFTERSCHOOL$7,000
WE CAN$7,000
JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER$7,000
MIRA COALITION$7,000
THE BIKE CONNECTOR INC$7,000
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORG$7,000
EQUINE THERAPY$7,000
HANDS ON NATURE$7,000
IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER$7,000
GREEN ROOTS$7,000

02The need

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 (FY24–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$245k · 25 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +104% since the first grant, against +73% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$245k

$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+104%

+73%

Still filing today

48%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyEducationOther

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
3× · 2021–2023 · $14k · revenue +138%
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WE CAN
2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +121%
FOR KIDS ONLY AFTERSCHOOL
2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +48%

Funded once

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OUR NEIGHBOR'S TABLE
one grant, 2024 · $3k
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MASS BAIL FUND
one grant, 2020 · $3k
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ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE OF NE
one grant, 2020 · $3k

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.

Massachusetts Education & Career

Massedco works to bridge the gap in postsecondary education attainment for low-income, first generation youth and adults in massachusetts.

Education

East End House Inc

Provide childcare and community action programs to the local population.

Human Services

Berkshire Grown Inc

To support and promote locally based agriculture.

Food & Nutrition

Worcester Community Action Council Inc

Helping people move to economic self-sufficiency through programs, partnerships, and advocacy.

Human Services

Walkboston Inc

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

Unclassified

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

Greater Worcester Land Trust

Land conservation

Environment

Urban Guild Inc

The corporation is organized to improve the quality of life in boston's urban communities by building capacity, environmental health, and providing economic opportunity in a manner that responds directly to community needs, interests, and…

Community Improvement

Massachusetts Affordable Housing

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

Harvard Street Neighborhood Health

Provide world-class clinical care in a safe & compassionate patient-centered healing environment.

Health

Gardens for Health International

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

International

Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hands On Nature Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/19

Grantees still filing

18/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$213,800Human Services$38,200Food & Nutrition$27,200Health$17,000Youth Development$10,400Housing & Shelter$9,800Education$6,800

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

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.

Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower · Cambridge Savings Charitable · Analog Devices Foundation · Ge Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 organisation 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.

2025

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2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HANDS ON NATURE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +68% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 261791465 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HANDS ON NATURE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 7% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Mentor Charitable Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Mentor Charitable Fund Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MENTOR CHARITABLE FUND INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mentor Charitable Fund Inc?

More from the funding graph

MENTOR CHARITABLE FUND INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mentor Charitable Fund Inc?

More from the funding graph