Ohio · Nonprofit
FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION
FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $356,478 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($241,530). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $356k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $356k
- Net assets
- $137k
What Family Mentor Foundation does
Mission
We believe that no child should ever go hungry and that every child deserves access to the nutrition they need to reach their full potential. Our mission is to serve food-insecure children in our community by ensuring they have dependable, consistent access to food over the weekends, when school-provided meals are not available.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Buddy boxes that are filled with nonperishable, nutritional, individual-sized foods are assembled by volunteer groups. These buddy boxes are delivered to schools by volunteers, schools then distribute these boxes to children in needs. These boxes with meals and snacks are to help sustain the children in needs on the weekends when they are not in school and thus school provided food is not available. All program expenses are funded through contributions or grants. Expenses include direct food expenses, direct salaries related to the program, as well as a small allocation of key employee salaries, facility and other overhead costs.
$187,636 spentof which $81,000 as grants$368,257 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $187,636.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $70k to $137k (+97%).
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: 2021 28% · 2022 42% · 2023 0% · 2024 2% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% 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.
Chief executive
Meegan Jesuele
Executive Director
Board chair
Carrie Browning
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $33k → $74k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION’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
FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 97% · 2019 92% · 2020 75% · 2021 80% · 2022 65% · 2023 74% — 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
67% of FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
74% of FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION'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 $91k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $265k 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
FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION
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
65% 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 FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION: 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 FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION?
- FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $356,478 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($241,530). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $356,478 in grants to FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $241,530 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 15 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