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The Mentor Network Charitable Foundation

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.

$193k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$427kRecreation & Sports$203kHealth$158kCivil Rights$125kPublic Benefit$110kEducation$59kPhilanthropy$56kYouth Development$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $153k
$2,500
Median grant
14
States reached
$640k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL INCLUSION PROJECT$35,000
THE ASSOCIATION FOR SUCCESSFUL PARENTING$30,000
OAK HILL$26,000
KIDPOWER TEENPOWER FULLPOWER$25,000
RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION$20,000
PERFECT PAR$17,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA$5,000
CEDAR RAPIDS BMX$2,500
PAHRUMP DISABILITY OUTREACH PROGRAM$2,500
TIM'S CLUB$2,500
HUMANE SOCIETY OF KANDIYOHI COUNTY$2,500
GEORGIA CYCLING ASSOCIATION$2,500
PLAYER'S PHILANTHROPY FUND LONG LIVE$2,500
PALS PROGRAM$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $472k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Windrush Farm: $1k → 10%Rise Above Foundation: $30k → 11%PALS PROGRAM: $3k → 6%Catherine McAuley Center: $1k → 9%National Inclusion Project: $50k → 11%BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 12%RespectAbility: $40k → 6%RespectAbility: $45k → 8%THE ASSOCIATION FOR SUCCESSFUL PARENTING: $30k → 19%Rise Above Foundation: $20k → 11%Siblings Connections: $3k → 16%National Inclusion Projects: $45k → 11%Disability Belongs: $20k → 6%RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%Sibling Connections: $3k → 16%NATIONAL INCLUSION PROJECT: $40k → 11%RESPECTABILITY: $20k → 6%RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%NATIONAL INCLUSION PROJECT: $35k → 11%Rise Above Foundation: $15k → 11%National Inclusion Project: $30k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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MN
IL
WI
MI
MA
NV
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
FL
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$851k · 8 repeat orgs$470k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
79

Total granted

$851k
$383k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+12%

Still filing today

75%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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

  • NI
    National Inclusion Project Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $200k · revenue -27%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +26%
  • DB
    DISABILITY BELONGS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $125k · revenue -40%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE HEAD INJURY ADMINISTRATORSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +114%
  • CS
    Clarke Schools for Hearing and Spee
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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.

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Residential Opportunities Inc

We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.

Human Services
2
Living Well Disability Services

Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.

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3
Community Systems Inc

The organization's mission is to help persons with disabilities to find happiness in their own homes, in their personal relationships, and as contributing members of their community.

Human Services
4
Marrakech Inc

Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…

Employment
5
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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6
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
7
Developmental Services Center of Champaign County Inc

Developmental services center (dsc) supports people with disabilities in living a rich and meaningful life.

Human Services
8
Cooperative Production Inc

To support people with intellectual, developmental and other disabilities, including brain injuries, to become valued members of their communities, with opportunities for meaningful participation in areas of personal pursuit.

Human Services
9
People with Disabilities Succeeding

Community support for Developmentally Disabled Adults, with a main emphasis on helping people to obtain and maintain real jobs in local businesses.

Employment
10
Aspire Inc

We empower adults with disabilities to lead fulfilling lives. We are committed to creating a community where all people are valued and accepted.

Employment
11
Brian's House Inc

Brian's House specializes in the care and treatment of people with disabilities. Brian's House provides a broad range of human services to people with special needs and challenges. The primary goal is to maximize each individual's…

Human Services
12
Disability Rights Washington

Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for the Study of Social Policy; the most unlike its peers is Pahrump Disability Outreach Program. 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

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 104 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
27/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

National Inclusion Project Inc: $200,000 · Human ServicesNational Inclusion Project IncDISABILITY BELONGS: $125,000 · Human ServicesDISABILITY BELONGSRISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesRISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INCThe Association for Successful Parenting: $30,000 · Human ServicesThe Association for Successful Parenting+6 more: $14,500 · Human ServicesKidpower Teenpower Fullpower: $90,000 · OtherKidpower Teenpower FullpowerOak Hill: $66,000 · OtherOak HillIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientClarke Schools for Hearing and Spee: $25,000 · OtherOak Hill Centers: $25,000 · OtherMiracle Bridge Foundation: $20,000 · Other+77 more: $193,000 · Other+77 moreSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $150,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMP…+2 more: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL POLICY: $110,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FO…NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE HEAD INJURY ADMINISTRATORS: $40,000 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY INC: $25,000 · HealthSOLIDARITY BRIDGE INC: $2,500 · HealthAUTISM EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $25,000 · EmploymentPERFECT PAIR: $17,000 · Community ImprovementPHANTOMS CHARITIES: $2,500 · Community Improvement+1 more: $500 · Community Improvement
Human Services$474,500Other$469,000Recreation & Sports$155,000Public Benefit$110,000Health$67,500Employment$25,000Community Improvement$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Inclusion Project Inc: $200,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $150,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDISABILITY BELONGS: $125,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL POLICY: $110,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE HEAD INJURY ADMINISTRATORS: $40,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetThe Association for Successful Parenting: $30,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAUTISM EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIBLING CONNECTIONS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOVE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLISBON-MOUNT VERNON AMBULANCE SERVICE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPHANTOMS CHARITIES: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMagdalene Hope Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCENTRAL CITY BOXING & BARBELL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNOEL ALEXANDRIA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWINDOM YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope worldwide Massachusetts Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetADAPTIVE RECREATIONAL SERVICES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetPALS Programs: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOLIDARITY BRIDGE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCedar Rapids Bmx: $2,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetDAVID ORTIZ CHILDREN'S FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN LIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KING'S HARVEST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMission of Hope: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

Alliant Energy Founda…Hawkeye Area Communit…Greater Cedar Rapids …Boston Foundation IncVerizon FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Network for GoodCharities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…The Blackbaud Giving …
Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI15.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 The Mentor Network Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mentor Network Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Dove Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Rise Above Foundation Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Sibling Connections Inc: 10% of income from government
  • The Association for Successful Parenting: 9% of income from government
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Washington College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Mentor Network Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Mentor Network Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 104 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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