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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| GEORGIA CYCLING ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN | $2,500 |
| PAHRUMP DISABILITY OUTREACH PROGRAM | $2,500 |
| PALS PROGRAM | $2,500 |
| UNITED CARING SHELTERS | $2,500 |
| TIM'S CLUB | $2,500 |
| PLAYER'S PHILANTHROPY FUND LONG LIVE | $2,500 |
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.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NINational Inclusion Project Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $200k · revenue +36%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +26%
RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $50k
- NANATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE HEAD INJURY ADMINISTRATORSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +114%
- UCUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.
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.
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…
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Developmental services center (dsc) supports people with disabilities in living a rich and meaningful life.
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.
Community support for Developmentally Disabled Adults, with a main emphasis on helping people to obtain and maintain real jobs in local businesses.
We empower adults with disabilities to lead fulfilling lives. We are committed to creating a community where all people are valued and accepted.
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for the Study of Social Policy and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds National Inclusion Project Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY BELONGS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL POLICY ↗
- Who funds RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE HEAD INJURY ADMINISTRATORS ↗
- Who funds The Association for Successful Parenting ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM EMPLOYMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PERFECT PAIR ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds SIBLING CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds Cedar Rapids Bmx ↗
- Who funds PAHRUMP DISABILITY OUTREACH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CITY BOXING & BARBELL INC ↗
- Who funds Magdalene Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds MARSHALLTOWN COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds NOEL ALEXANDRIA FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
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 organization The Mentor Network Charitable Foundation 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.
- 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
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 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.
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