Illinois · Nonprofit
AUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP INC
AUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP INC (Illinois) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,072,972 to it, the largest being GEORGE AND CINDY RUSU FAMILY FOUND ($707,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $527k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $250k
What Automotive Mentoring Group Inc does
Mission
The automotive mentoring groups mission is achieved by training interesting individuals who enroll in the program the skill of automobile restoration. The program also builds confidence an character, by mentoring enrollees through discipline and building self esteem. More than 30 individuals enroll in the program annually. In addition, 25 to 30 enrollees graduate from the program each year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mentoring program services: as stated above, the automotive mentoring group had 41 individuals complete the 7 month program of automobile restoration. The automotive mentoring group complete the restoration of classic cars, which are donated. (exterior and interior). Minor engine work is taught and preformed. Major engine work/issues are sent to outside shops for servicing.
$342,798 spent$527,410 earned by the program100% of program spendingProgram service activity # 2- fees for services:the automotive mentoring group provides classroom and hands on instructions to individuals in auto restoration. The services are provided through the menta foundation. The menta foundation is a tax exempt organization under irc 501(c)(3). The organization did not have any fees for services in 2022.
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$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
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The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $342,798.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $164k to $348k (+112%).
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.
100% of AUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (55% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Kenneth A Levesque
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $157k → $280k.
10 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 AUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP INC’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
AUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
37% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 46% · 2019 50% · 2020 91% · 2021 54% · 2022 54% · 2023 36% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
38% of AUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP INC draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $555k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states 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
AUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,526 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,526 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like AUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP INC
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP INC: 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 AUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP INC?
- AUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP INC (Illinois) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,072,972 to it, the largest being GEORGE AND CINDY RUSU FAMILY FOUND ($707,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,072,972 in grants to AUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP INC?
- GEORGE AND CINDY RUSU FAMILY FOUND is the largest funder on record, with $707,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 23 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing