California · Nonprofit
MENDING MATTERS
MENDING MATTERS (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,034,115 to it, the largest being PRICE PHILANTHROPIES FOUNDATION ($861,571). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $624k
What Mending Matters does
Mission
Engage, connect, and empower youth through mental health services. We believe that every youth deserves access to mental health support, and services should be accessible and adaptable to their needs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Mending Matters provided direct mental health services to more than 1,300 students across middle and high schools, delivering over 3,500 individual, group, and crisis services. Students engaged in 8-10 session treatment cycles, with an average 82-84% completion of treatment goals, meeting benchmarks for effectiveness.through youth engagement and empowerment programs, over 10,000 students participated in community events, classroom presentations, and surveys, including 7,417 who accessed mental health awareness content. These programs increased student knowledge of available supports, with over 90% of participants reporting greater ability to manage challenges and identify resources.the pause program delivered prevention workshops to more than 1,400 students, focusing on stress management, boundaries, and communication. Post-workshop surveys showed that 91% of youth learned strategies to handle difficult situations and 96% knew how to access support. The life student leadership program trained nearly 100 youth advisors across schools, providing leadership development and peer support opportunities that strengthened student voice and engagement.family inclusion remained a core…
$3,182,405 spentof which $36,100 as grants$3,107,495 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,182,405.
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 2019 to 2020, from $80k to $566k (+608%).
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 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of MENDING MATTERS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income rose $310k → $356k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 MENDING MATTERS’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
MENDING MATTERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% 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
44% 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 MENDING MATTERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 64% · 2021 100% · 2022 37% · 2023 49% — 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
40% of MENDING MATTERS's funders are still giving 3 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
100% of MENDING MATTERS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $769k 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.
Against its field
MENDING MATTERS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MENDING MATTERS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% 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 MENDING MATTERS: 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 MENDING MATTERS?
- MENDING MATTERS (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,034,115 to it, the largest being PRICE PHILANTHROPIES FOUNDATION ($861,571). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MENDING MATTERS have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,034,115 in grants to MENDING MATTERS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MENDING MATTERS?
- PRICE PHILANTHROPIES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $861,571 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MENDING MATTERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 13 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