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MENTOR LIVINGSTON

MENTOR LIVINGSTON (Michigan) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $322,487 to it, the largest being LIVINGSTON COUNTY UNITED WAY ($242,488). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
$91k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$322k
Net assets
$0
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%
01What it does

What Mentor Livingston does

Mission

To provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported 1-to-1 relationships that change their lives for better, forever.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.

Program

The Mentor Livingston program is a partnering with parents/guardians, volunteers, and others in the community and hold ourselves accountable for each child in our program achieving: higher aspirations, greater confidence, and better relationships.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($225k) Expenses 100 ($197k) Net assets 100 ($58k)2018 Revenue 92 ($206k) Expenses 101 ($200k) Net assets 110 ($64k)2020 Revenue 81 ($181k) Expenses 82 ($163k) Net assets 63 ($37k)2021 Revenue 41 ($91k) Expenses 65 ($128k) Net assets 0 ($0)
2017201820202021
Revenue (41)Expenses (65)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $37k to $0 (−100%).

$61k
$68k
$37k
$0
2017201820202021
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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$27k
’17
$6k
’18
$19k
’20
−$37k
’21
2.4
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.

2017201820202021
Listed81255
Joined·+4·+0
No longer listed·0·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $60k → $16k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 LIVINGSTON’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 LIVINGSTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

92% 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 LIVINGSTON.

75%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 72% · 2019 81% · 2020 71% · 2021 100% · 2023 66% — 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

17% of MENTOR LIVINGSTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

93% of MENTOR LIVINGSTON's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI
MA
OH
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like MENTOR LIVINGSTON

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 Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

51% of spending goes to programs.

Program 51%Management 32%Fundraising 18%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

54%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MENTOR LIVINGSTON: 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 LIVINGSTON?
MENTOR LIVINGSTON (Michigan) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $322,487 to it, the largest being LIVINGSTON COUNTY UNITED WAY ($242,488). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MENTOR LIVINGSTON have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $322,487 in grants to MENTOR LIVINGSTON, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MENTOR LIVINGSTON?
LIVINGSTON COUNTY UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $242,488 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MENTOR LIVINGSTON find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 9 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