Nevada · Private foundation
Mentors
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.
- $631k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 66
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 40
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 24
- Total assets, FY2025
- $26M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations Mentors funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k 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 | 50 | $611k | 76% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $493k | 48% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $283k | 54% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $340k | 59% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $422k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $307k | 65% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $276k | 84% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $221k | 88% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital Humane Society | $102,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Inner-City Arts | $92,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Debate-Kansas City | $87,000 | 5 | 19% |
| Echo Collective | $60,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Green Our Planet | $52,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Surf and Turf Therapy | $50,600 | 2 | 4% |
| The Sewing Labs | $32,500 | 3 | 2% |
| The One Thread Project Inc | $25,500 | 1 | 24% |
| Opportunity Alliance Nevada | $25,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Malembe Rise Inc | $24,300 | 2 | 8% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 154 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mentors supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
About Mentors
- How much does Mentors give?
- Mentors reported 66 grants totaling $631,465 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mentors fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (61%), Youth Development (8%), Arts & Culture (6%).
- Who are Mentors's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Capital Humane Society ($102k), Inner-City Arts ($92k), Debate-Kansas City ($87k).
- Does Mentors fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mentors 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 Mentors?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Ibm International Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Mentors based?
- Mentors is based in NV.
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