Massachusetts · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 13
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $419k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Mentor Charitable Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $91k | 46% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $41k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $41k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $41k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $44k | 77% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $30k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $33k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $30k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Three Sisters Garden Project Inc | $13,600 | 3 | 1% |
| Innercity Weightlifting Inc | $12,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Hands on Nature Inc | $10,400 | 2 | 7% |
| The Pettengill House Inc | $10,400 | 2 | 0% |
| For Kids Only Afterschool Inc | $10,400 | 2 | 0% |
| We Can Corporation | $10,400 | 2 | 0% |
| The Bike Connector Inc | $10,400 | 2 | 2% |
| Healthy Waltham Inc | $10,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Breaktime United Inc | $10,200 | 3 | 0% |
| About Fresh Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($128k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mentor Charitable Fund Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
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About Mentor Charitable Fund Inc
- How much does Mentor Charitable Fund Inc give?
- Mentor Charitable Fund Inc reported 13 grants totaling $91,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Mentor Charitable Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (14%), Food & Nutrition (12%), Environment (10%).
- Who are Mentor Charitable Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Three Sisters Garden Project Inc ($14k), Innercity Weightlifting Inc ($13k), Hands on Nature Inc ($10k).
- Does Mentor Charitable Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mentor Charitable Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mentor Charitable Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is Mentor Charitable Fund Inc based?
- Mentor Charitable Fund Inc is based in MA.
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