How much does MENTOR Vermont Inc give?

MENTOR Vermont Inc reported 16 itemized grants totaling $615,516, out of $633,416 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does MENTOR Vermont Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (55%), Housing & Shelter (14%), Education (13%).

Who are MENTOR Vermont Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Mentor Connector Inc ($596k), The Dream Program Inc ($591k), Everybody Wins Vermont Inc ($481k).

Does MENTOR Vermont Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as MENTOR Vermont Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation, United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc.

Where is MENTOR Vermont Inc based?

MENTOR Vermont Inc is based in VT.

MENTOR Vermont Inc

MENTOR Vermont Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

MENTOR Vermont Inc

MENTOR Vermont leads, expands, and strengthens the mentoring movement, building capacity to make high-quality relationships accessible to all young people.

$633k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$95k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$2.3MHousing & Shelter$591kEducation$555kHuman Services$330kEmployment$181kHealth$86kCivil Rights$45kArts & Culture$39kOther$0

02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 16 grants below total $615,516, the rows itemized in this filing. The $633,416 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $17,900 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

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
Recipient	Amount
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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $411k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

How this is measured

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

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.0M · 23 repeat orgs$136k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.0M

$136k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

-2%

Still filing today

65%

75%

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 ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalCivil RightsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $596k · revenue +98% · 32% of their budget
TD
THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $591k · revenue +303%
EW
EVERYBODY WINS VERMONT INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $481k · revenue +55% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

CC
CALEDONIA CENTRAL SUPERVISORY UNION
one grant, 2021 · $28k
CC
Caledonia Central Supervisory
one grant, 2020 · $19k
II
INTERACTION INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +59%

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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Mentor Vermont Inc

MENTOR Vermont leads, expands, and strengthens the mentoring movement, building capacity to make high-quality relationships accessible to all young people.

Education

Vermont Center for Family Studies

Our mission is to strengthen families and communities by improving human relationships. We do this through the training of expert family therapists, advisors, leaders, and family members in Bowen Family Systems Theory.

Human Services

Unleashing the Power of Partnership for Learning Inc

Up for learning supports educational communities' work toward systemic transformation, engaging all learners, and increasing the authentic voice of youth in learning and decision-making. we believe all young people have the right to a…

Education

Rutland County Parent Child Center Inc

The Center is a resource for family growth and development in Rutland County, Vermont.

Human Services

Stepping Stones of the Roaring Fork Valley

Stepping Stones cultivates strong mentoring relationships and community spaces for youth ages 10-24 to foster personal growth, compassion and responsibility.

Public Benefit

Vermont Coalition of Runaway and Homeless Youth Programs Inc

The vermont coalition of runaway and homeless youth programs mission is to ensure that youth have access to the support services they need to be safe and stable. to accomplish this, the coalition works to: ensure continued funding for…

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Voices for Vermonts Children

To promote public policy that enhances the lives of children and youth in vermont.

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Youth-Led Justice

To work towards creating healthy, safer, stronger, and more connected communities through educating youth in restorative justice and by giving youth respondents a second chance to be part of the community.

Crime & Legal

Education Justice Coalition of Vt

To promote justice for all students in the vermont education system through organizing and building community power, and developing and promoting ethnic studies, disability studies, native american studies and lgbtqia+ curriculum and…

Education

Washington County Diversion Program Inc

To provide alternative methods of restitution for first-time offenders of the criminal code (both adults and juveniles).

Crime & Legal

Better Youth Inc

We provide access, equity, and validation to foster and system impacted youth creatives ages 16-24 through media arts programming and mentoring helping them bridge the digital divide and develop their creative confidence, upleveling our…

Youth Development

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milton Family Community Center Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/25

Grantees still filing

15/25

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Youth Development$1,983,296Other$1,276,419Human Services$646,921Education$156,200Arts & Culture$39,400International$16,300Civil Rights$10,000Community Improvement$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

The Vermont Community FoundationVT41.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Vermont Afterschool Inc · Community Bank Na Foundation of New England Inc · Vermont Energy Investment Corporation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Elevate Youth Services Inc · The Redducs Chartered Foundation Corp · Peoples United Community Foundation

How this is measured

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

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization MENTOR Vermont Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from MENTOR Vermont Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

5rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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