Ohio · Nonprofit
AMERICA MENTORS
AMERICA MENTORS (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,920,000 to it, the largest being THE BUSINESS OF GOOD FOUNDATION ($1,670,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $555k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $782
What America Mentors does
Mission
To help first-generation, low-income college students successfully persist to college graduation through a comprehensive mentoring programs provided at no cost to colleges, universities and community organizations
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Purchase of MentorcliQ's mentoring software and product updates to provide a platform for guiding interaction through mentoring pairs, fostering relationships and help students get the support they need.
$355,000 spent64% of program spendingOutreach and marketing to colleges, product demos, proposal planning, sales collateral, website and social media.
$163,636 spent29% of program spendingManagement- Communicate with Contributors, meet with Stakeholders and customers, manage the America Mentors team and create a plan for sustainability
$36,495 spent7% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $555,131.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $8 to $50k (+625013%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 60% · 2021 67% · 2022 62% · 2023 62% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of AMERICA MENTORS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Phil George
President and Chair of Board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $150k → $310k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICA MENTORS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICA MENTORS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 67% · 2020 60% · 2021 67% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of AMERICA MENTORS's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $250k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AMERICA MENTORS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like AMERICA MENTORS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICA MENTORS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICA MENTORS?
- AMERICA MENTORS (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,920,000 to it, the largest being THE BUSINESS OF GOOD FOUNDATION ($1,670,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICA MENTORS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,920,000 in grants to AMERICA MENTORS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICA MENTORS?
- THE BUSINESS OF GOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,670,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICA MENTORS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing