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Lear Mentoring Inc

Lear Mentoring Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $511,754 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($511,754). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2026
$40k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$512k
Net assets
$17k
1/1 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Lear Mentoring Inc does

Mission

to provide services to under-resourced organizations

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provided management and technical services to under-resourced, emerging, distressed, minority-led and other organizations, particularly where such services are not available and/or not otherwise affordable

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($212k) Expenses 100 ($80k) Net assets 100 ($134k)2021 Revenue 62 ($131k) Expenses 113 ($90k) Net assets 99 ($133k)2022 Revenue 12 ($25k) Expenses 116 ($93k) Net assets 48 ($65k)2023 Revenue 24 ($51k) Expenses 117 ($94k) Net assets 16 ($22k)2024 Revenue 22 ($46k) Expenses 47 ($38k) Net assets 25 ($33k)2025 Revenue 22 ($47k) Expenses 64 ($51k) Net assets 22 ($29k)2026 Revenue 19 ($40k) Expenses 66 ($52k) Net assets 12 ($17k)
2019202120222023202420252026
Revenue (19)Expenses (66)Net assets (12)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 2021 to 2022, from $148k to $65k (−56%).

$139k
$148k
$65k
$22k
$33k
$29k
$17k
2019202120222023202420252026
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.

2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Lear Mentoring Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$132k
’19
$41k
’21
−$68k
’22
−$43k
’23
$8k
’24
−$4k
’25
−$12k
’26
0.7
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

Ann Langston

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $65k → $93k.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Lear Mentoring 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.

Where its funders are

100% of Lear Mentoring 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $512k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Lear Mentoring Inc's revenue fell 81% between 2019 and 2026.

Operating margin−31% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−21% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 435 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2026

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05Profile & governance

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 Lear Mentoring Inc: 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 Lear Mentoring Inc?
Lear Mentoring Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $511,754 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($511,754). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Lear Mentoring Inc have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $511,754 in grants to Lear Mentoring Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Lear Mentoring Inc?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $511,754 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Lear Mentoring Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2019–2026), and the filings of 1 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