· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $174k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $458k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SURF AND TURF THERAPY | $35,000 |
| ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS AT HOME | $25,000 |
| INNER CITY ARTS | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CABINET | $20,000 |
| GREEN OUR PLANET | $20,000 |
| DRESS FOR SUCCESS | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $19,721 |
| EUROPEA UNIVERSIDAD | $16,940 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $16,813 |
| SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY | $16,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,225 |
| COLLEGE OF BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT TECHNOLOGY | $15,000 |
| JOHN'S HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 88% of grant dollars ($2.8M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 12% that went abroad ($371k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 12% of all-years giving ($371k)
9 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Mentors’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
52 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $398k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY5× · 2020–2025 · $102k · revenue +115%
- IAINNER-CITY ARTS5× · 2020–2025 · $92k · revenue +44%
- DCDEBATE-KANSAS CITY5× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- SKSTRATEGIC KIDS FUNDone grant, 2021 · $36k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $28k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $27k
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.
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.
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The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
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How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 199 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY ARTS ↗
- Who funds DEBATE-KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds ECHO COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds GREEN OUR PLANET ↗
- Who funds Surf and Turf Therapy ↗
- Who funds THE SEWING LABS ↗
- Who funds The One Thread Project Inc ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE NEVADA ↗
- Who funds Malembe Rise Inc ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
- Who funds ARTS WITH OTHERS ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATING CODERS INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mentors funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mentors. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
- Barry University Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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