North Carolina · Nonprofit
Hard Grinderz Kings Growing Kings Mentoring
Hard Grinderz Kings Growing Kings Mentoring (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,023 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($45,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $45k
- Net assets
- $370
What Hard Grinderz Kings Growing Kings Mentoring does
Mission
We are committed to empowering at-risk youth through dynamic programs that foster personal growth skill development and leadership. Our initiatives provide hands-on learning experiences that help youth develop essential life skills while creating opportunities for mentorship and community engagement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Our 7-on-7 Travel Football program offers high-quality coaching and competitive play in travel leagues. This experience goes beyond the game teaching youth teamwork discipline and sportsmanship while exposing them to broader opportunities. Participation is completely free for families as we cover the costs of transportation lodging and meals for weekend competitions. Total Number of People Served: 35
$5,000 spent45% of program spendingEntrepreneurship & Public Speaking Workshops: We prepare youth for leadership and self-sufficiency through targeted workshops. We provided entrepreneurship teaching by covering such topics as: the fundamentals of business creation financial literacy and problem-solving to inspire innovation and self-reliance. Public Speaking Workshops: Helping youth develop confidence articulation and leadership skills through effective communication training. Total Number of People Served: 20
$3,000 spent27% of program spendingWorkforce Development Program: We equip youth with practical skills for future career success through hands-on job experiences. Participants develop professionalism responsibility and a strong work ethic-key attributes for workforce readiness. Total Number of People Served: 15
$3,000 spent27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $11,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 at each year end, in dollars.
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 Hard Grinderz Kings Growing Kings Mentoring’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Howard Glover
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $12 → $11.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Hard Grinderz Kings Growing Kings 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
Hard Grinderz Kings Growing Kings Mentoring leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Hard Grinderz Kings Growing Kings Mentoring.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of Hard Grinderz Kings Growing Kings Mentoring's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Hard Grinderz Kings Growing Kings Mentoring's revenue fell 30% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Hard Grinderz Kings Growing Kings 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hard Grinderz Kings Growing Kings 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Hard Grinderz Kings Growing Kings Mentoring?
- Hard Grinderz Kings Growing Kings Mentoring (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,023 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($45,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hard Grinderz Kings Growing Kings Mentoring have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $45,023 in grants to Hard Grinderz Kings Growing Kings Mentoring, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hard Grinderz Kings Growing Kings Mentoring?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hard Grinderz Kings Growing Kings Mentoring find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Hard Grinderz Kings Growing Kings Mentoring →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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