Illinois · Nonprofit
COLLEGE MENTORING EXPERIENCE
COLLEGE MENTORING EXPERIENCE (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,940 to it, the largest being ADVOCATE HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORP ($57,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $0
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $181k
- Net assets
- $0
What College Mentoring Experience does
Mission
College Mentoring Experience is a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit corporation incorporated May 6, 2014, in Chicago, Illinois to provide resources to help youth enter college and graduate via college tour, scholarships, tutoring and mentorship. The Organization prepares students with academic and soft skills needed to succeed in the 21st century academic and workplace environments. It is the belief of College Mentoring Experiences belief that when students are supported, families and communities are impacted. Over nearly a decade, College Mentoring Experience has exposed youth to college tours, cultural and sporting events, scholarship opportunities and most importantly, a great mentor. The Organization is focused on ensuring that it addresses the social and academic needs of our youth through Experience, Mentoring and Exposure.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
College Mentoring Experience has over 60 mentors in the community. The organization takes youth on many educational trips acroos the country which exposes them to many other cultures outside their own. Youth are exposed to college tours, summer camp and bowling.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2021 to 2022, from $125k to $14k (−89%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2022 17% · 2023 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of COLLEGE MENTORING EXPERIENCE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $45k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 COLLEGE MENTORING EXPERIENCE’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
COLLEGE MENTORING EXPERIENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 COLLEGE MENTORING EXPERIENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 78% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% — 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
25% of COLLEGE MENTORING EXPERIENCE's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% 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
99% of COLLEGE MENTORING EXPERIENCE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
COLLEGE MENTORING EXPERIENCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like COLLEGE MENTORING EXPERIENCE
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
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 COLLEGE MENTORING EXPERIENCE: 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 COLLEGE MENTORING EXPERIENCE?
- COLLEGE MENTORING EXPERIENCE (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,940 to it, the largest being ADVOCATE HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORP ($57,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLLEGE MENTORING EXPERIENCE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $180,940 in grants to COLLEGE MENTORING EXPERIENCE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLLEGE MENTORING EXPERIENCE?
- ADVOCATE HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORP is the largest funder on record, with $57,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLLEGE MENTORING EXPERIENCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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