Puerto Rico · Nonprofit
Mentes Puertorriquenas en Accion
Mentes Puertorriquenas en Accion (Puerto Rico) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $867,253 to it, the largest being GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ($305,206). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $887k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $867k
- Net assets
- $653k
What Mentes Puertorriquenas en Accion does
Mission
To build a community of young change agents who make Puerto Rico their life project. This means we recruit engage and support young people who work on social projects in Puerto Rico. We do this through a fellowship program citizen education internship placement and supporting the projects of change agents.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
PARACa is a training program for young university students and recent graduates known for their leadership. The program seeks to train the next generation of conscious sensitive and effective Changemakers willing to work for a better Puerto Rico. PARACa has two annual sessions: the summer session consists of an 8-week internship program that supports their professional development strengthens their leadership and sensitizes their perspective over Puerto Ricos issues. The year-long session consists of a 12-month internship program which promotes the progression of leadership development by strengthening skills deepening knowledge and career development by focusing on specific functional areas.
$612,493 spent85% of program spending#EnAccin is a civic action program aimed at young university students and professionals with a social commitment to Puerto Rico. The program seeks to develop a systematic perspective among participants to form leaders capable of carrying out social initiatives and projects of impact for Puerto Rico. The main components of #EnAccin are the intensive advocacy and organizing training curriculum connection to a peer network and mentorship through the process of incubating an advocacy project.
$37,973 spent5% of program spendingEvents - Our events bring together individuals from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to learn contribute and exchange experiences and ideas about the realities of Puerto Rico. Within these events our organization has a series of events known as Cafe Conciencia. Cafe Conciencia brings together students young professionals and the general public to discuss local and global relevant topics. Using local restaurants coffee shops book stores and other inclusive locations the program reunites each month. Educational and advocacy campaigns - We hold campaigns to educate the public about our mission. The campaigns have included the Agents of Change campaign which visualizes the social engagement of young leaders in Puerto Rico and #EsMiTurno which seeks to amplify the voice of young leaders in the election periods.
$66,540 spent9% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $717,006.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $519k to $725k (+40%).
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: 2020 18% · 2021 50% · 2022 45% · 2023 48% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of Mentes Puertorriquenas en Accion’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Carolina Mejias Rivera
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $201k.
7 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 Mentes Puertorriquenas en Accion’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
Mentes Puertorriquenas en Accion leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 Mentes Puertorriquenas en Accion.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 64% · 2020 57% · 2021 83% · 2022 62% · 2023 83% — 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
0% of Mentes Puertorriquenas en Accion's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
56% of Mentes Puertorriquenas en Accion'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 $374k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Puerto Rico, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $485k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Mentes Puertorriquenas en Accion has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,130 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Mentes Puertorriquenas en Accion receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $281k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$281k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Mentes Puertorriquenas en Accion
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 Puerto Rico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Mentes Puertorriquenas en Accion?
- Mentes Puertorriquenas en Accion (Puerto Rico) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $867,253 to it, the largest being GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ($305,206). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Mentes Puertorriquenas en Accion have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $867,253 in grants to Mentes Puertorriquenas en Accion, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mentes Puertorriquenas en Accion?
- GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $305,206 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mentes Puertorriquenas en Accion find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Puerto Rico. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 12 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