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CONNECTIONS MENTOR INC

CONNECTIONS MENTOR INC (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,529,436 to it, the largest being CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$594k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$791k
5/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 67%
01What it does

What Connections Mentor Inc does

Mission

The mission of Connections Mentor Inc is to work in partnership with young people, families, organizations, and volunteers to curate long-lasting, supportive mentoring relationships that improve self-worth for young people with past, current, or peripheral contact with the child welfare or juvenile justice systems in new york city or westchester county.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Mentoring underprivileged youth in new york city and westchester county

    $281,878 spent
    78% of program spending
  2. Mentoring underprivileged youth in new york city and westchester county

    $80,361 spent
    22% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $362,239.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($919k) Expenses 100 ($335k) Net assets 100 ($641k)2023 Revenue 48 ($445k) Expenses 111 ($371k) Net assets 111 ($715k)2024 Revenue 50 ($459k) Expenses 131 ($440k) Net assets 114 ($733k)2025 Revenue 65 ($594k) Expenses 160 ($537k) Net assets 123 ($791k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (65)Expenses (160)Net assets (123)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $726k to $799k (+10%).

$726k
$799k
$818k
$791k
2022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

83% of CONNECTIONS MENTOR INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$583k
’22
$73k
’23
$19k
’24
$57k
’25
18
months of
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

Paul Muratore

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed6656
Joined·+1+1+3
No longer listed·122
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $480k → $298k.

4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 CONNECTIONS MENTOR 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

CONNECTIONS MENTOR INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

72% 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 CONNECTIONS MENTOR INC.

65%
largest funder
86%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 52% · 2022 82% · 2023 84% — 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

70% of CONNECTIONS MENTOR INC'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 $458k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 5 states.

IL
NY
PA
DE
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CONNECTIONS MENTOR INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve17.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−14% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CONNECTIONS MENTOR 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 New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 16%Fundraising 17%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

78%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds CONNECTIONS MENTOR INC?
CONNECTIONS MENTOR INC (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,529,436 to it, the largest being CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CONNECTIONS MENTOR INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,529,436 in grants to CONNECTIONS MENTOR INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CONNECTIONS MENTOR INC?
CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CONNECTIONS MENTOR INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 11 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