Colorado · Nonprofit
MENTOR COLORADO
MENTOR COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $251,219 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($52,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $211k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $251k
- Net assets
- $70k
What Mentor Colorado does
Mission
At Mentor Colorado, our goal is clear: to ensure every young person in colorado will have a quality mentoring relationship. We're on a mission to transform the quality and significantly increase the quantity of mentoring relationships for colorado's young people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mentor Colorado was founded in 2014 by organizations implementing mentoring programs. Today, it is the unifying champion expanding quality youth mentoring statewide. Mcs mission is to advance the quality and extend the reach of youth mentoring organizations in colorado. Its vision is that every young person will have the supportive relationships they need to grow, connect, and thrive. Our key accomplishments this past year included: strengthening our communities through mentoring with expanded no-cost consulting and contracted services (ta and nqms) that align with evidence- based practices for private, public, and nonprofit sectors. Serving as the states convener and hub for the mentoring community where relationships and building connections are the focus. We hosted the annual colorado mentoring summit in november of 2024, where over 160 practitioners from around the state joined forces to elevate the movement with renewed inspiration and collaboration. Our highest attended summit to date continuing to grow the Mentor Colorado partnership that provides a platform where mentoring programs can voice and address interests, challenges, and opportunities that exist within our state.…
$128,288 spent$17,642 earned by the program40% of program spendingThe national quality mentoring system (nqms) creates recognized standards and procedures for the operation of high-quality mentoring programs based on evidence and a process for continuous improvement within a program to better serve its youth. Mentoring works best when steps are taken to ensure program practices meet quality standards that are safe and effective. Nqms provides a structured, systematic process for assessing the quality of a mentoring program's practices in alignment with the elements of effective practice for mentoring, fourth edition (eepm). The nqms will provide a meaningful indicator of quality for youth mentoring programs and lend credibility to individual programs to attract resources and support. It will also help families and volunteers feel confident about participating in a mentoring program that meets national quality standards.
$189,735 spent$121,463 earned by the program60% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $318,023.
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 2024 to 2025, from $339k to $79k (−77%).
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: 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of MENTOR COLORADO’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Vernon Jones Jr
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $3k → $40k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 MENTOR COLORADO’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
MENTOR COLORADO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
84% 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 MENTOR COLORADO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 41% · 2021 42% · 2022 55% · 2023 51% — 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
63% of MENTOR COLORADO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
64% of MENTOR COLORADO'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, 56% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k 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
MENTOR COLORADO's revenue fell 46% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MENTOR COLORADO
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 MENTOR COLORADO: 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 MENTOR COLORADO?
- MENTOR COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $251,219 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($52,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MENTOR COLORADO have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $251,219 in grants to MENTOR COLORADO, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MENTOR COLORADO?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $52,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MENTOR COLORADO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2020–2025), 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