Colorado · Nonprofit
CLEAR DIRECTION MENTORING
CLEAR DIRECTION MENTORING (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,878 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($21,770). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $46k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $18k
What Clear Direction Mentoring does
Mission
Clear Direction Mentoring exists to address our nations need to diversify science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine (stemm) education programs and work forces. Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows provide long-term mentorship to underrepresented minority students in stemm from their sophomore year in high school to their first-ever paid stemm internships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provided long-term support and mentoring to fellows during key transition periods through thousands of hours of one-on-one mentorship support. Providing paid internships in collaboration with nyu and cu anschutz leading to over 140 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows trained in underrepresented minority tailored mentorship.
$54,710 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $54,710.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $33k to $20k (−39%).
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.
70% of CLEAR DIRECTION MENTORING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $22k → $13k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 CLEAR DIRECTION MENTORING’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
CLEAR DIRECTION MENTORING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 CLEAR DIRECTION MENTORING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 57% — 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.
Where its funders are
91% of CLEAR DIRECTION MENTORING's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CLEAR DIRECTION MENTORING has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CLEAR DIRECTION MENTORING
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLEAR DIRECTION MENTORING: 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 CLEAR DIRECTION MENTORING?
- CLEAR DIRECTION MENTORING (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,878 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($21,770). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CLEAR DIRECTION MENTORING have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $54,878 in grants to CLEAR DIRECTION MENTORING.
- Who is the largest funder of CLEAR DIRECTION MENTORING?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $21,770 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLEAR DIRECTION MENTORING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 5 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