How much did MENTOR Vermont Inc grant in FY2025?

MENTOR Vermont Inc reported 16 grants totaling $633,416 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is MENTOR Vermont Inc based?

MENTOR Vermont Inc is based in VT.

MENTOR Vermont Inc

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

MENTOR Vermont Inc

Empowering youth by providing support and resources to the youth mentoring field in Vermont.

$633k

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$95k

Largest

01What you fund

0169% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Youth Development$1.9MHuman Services$599kEducation$144kArts & Culture$30kCommunity Improvement$10kCivil Rights$10kInternational$6kOther$1.2M

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

2020

health

2021

healtheducation

2022

health

2023

health

2024

supervisory union

2025

supervisory union

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

03FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $17k
$10k–50k8 grants · $224k
$50k–250k5 grants · $374k

$39,000

Median grant

States reached

$219k

Total assets

Largest grants

Everybody Wins Vermont$95,000
King Street Youth Center$76,650
DREAM Program Inc$71,000
The Mentor Connector$69,300
Spectrum Youth & Family Svs$62,466
Mt Abraham Unified School District$45,866
Champlain Valley School Distr$40,600
Caledonia Central Supervisory Union$39,000
Youth First Mentoring- Washington Central Friends of Education$25,500
Big Brothers Big Sisters VT$25,000
Windsor County Mentors$21,500
Grand Isle County Mentoring$15,300
Mentoring Project of the Upper Valley$11,400
Milton Family Community Center$6,000
Mountain Views Supervisory Union$5,900

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 (FY18–25, $376k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 83% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.7M · 21 repeat orgs$133k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.7M

$133k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%

+14%

Still filing today

67%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationInternationalCivil RightsArts & CultureOther

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

TM
The Mentor Connector
7× · 2018–2025 · $571k · revenue +46% · 32% of their budget
DP
DREAM Program Inc
7× · 2018–2025 · $568k · revenue +204%
BB
Big Brothers Big Sisters VT
7× · 2018–2025 · $371k · revenue +130% · 47% of their budget

Funded once

CC
Caledonia Central Supervisory
one grant, 2021 · $28k
AN
Addison NE Supervisory Union
one grant, 2018 · $21k
CC
Caledonia Central Supervisory
one grant, 2020 · $19k

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.

Mentor Vermont Inc

Empowering youth by providing support and resources to the youth mentoring field in Vermont.

Education

Governor's Institutes of Vermont

Giv empowers young people with intensive, hands-on learning experiences in college settings which inspire their academic and creative passions, build confidence and leadership, and expand their sense of possibility.

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Voices for Vermonts Children

Education and advocacy for children.

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Virginia Mentoring Partnership

Virginia mentoring partnership provides training and technical assistance to mentors and mentoring programs to increase the quality and quantity of mentoring for virginia's youth. the vision of vmp is that every child who needs a mentor…

Crime & Legal

Vermont Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health Inc

To support families and children where a child or youth, age 0-22, is experiencing or at risk to experience emotional, behavioral, or mental health challanges.

Health

Vermont Energy Education Program Inc

To build a deep understanding of energy and climate through education, inspiring and empowering people to take action for increased sustainability in our communities, economy and environment.

Education

Better Youth Inc

We validate young people by developing life skills through mentoring and media arts training.

Youth Development

Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform

Education of the public about the criminal justice system. Direct services to people struggling with substance use disorder, including case managment and recovery support.

Crime & Legal

Friends for Youth Inc

Provide Mentoring Opportunities For Disenfranchised (or other) Youth

Youth Development

Mv Youth Inc

MV Youth supports youth based capital projects on Marthas Vineyard and funds scholarships for youth from Marthas Vineyard.

Youth Development

Youth Guidance

Youth Guidance creates and implements school-based programs that enable children to overcome obstacles, focus on their education and, ultimately, to succeed in school and in life.

Education

Voice of the Youth Inc

Helping low income individuals and families, by providing mentor, leadership, work development, life skills programs, and resources for underserved communities.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elevate Youth Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Baba Tree International. 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

22 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)

21/22

Grantees still filing

15/22

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Youth Development$1,865,461Other$1,182,464Human Services$599,496Education$143,500Arts & Culture$30,400Community Improvement$10,000Civil Rights$10,000International$6,200

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.

The Vermont Community FoundationVT39.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · Vermont Afterschool Inc · Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation · George W Mergens Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Elevate Youth Services Inc · Vermont Energy Investment Corporation · The University of Vermont Medical Center · Community Bank Na Foundation of New · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Vermont 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

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

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: Big Brothers Big Sisters VT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~11 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 814162286 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 Big Brothers Big Sisters VT, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 47% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Vermont Inc?

Find your warmest path to MENTOR Vermont 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 Vermont 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

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to MENTOR Vermont Inc?

More from the funding graph

MENTOR Vermont 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

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to MENTOR Vermont Inc?

More from the funding graph