Georgia · Nonprofit
Mentor Me - North Georgia Inc
Mentor Me - North Georgia Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $478,088 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC ($260,701). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $335k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $478k
- Net assets
- $377k
What Mentor Me - North Georgia Inc does
Mission
The mission of Mentor Me is to serve at-risk school age children and youth, in need of positive role models; to help them grow into healthy and productive members of our society and community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
One-to-One Mentoring Program: Served 55 children ages 6-17. 58 volunteers contributed 2,860 of service hours. 85% of matches reached a one year milestone. 90% of mentees report better social and peer interactions. 75% improved with academic achievements. 82% are more self-confident.Mentoring After School (MAS): 250 children participated in MAS. 265 volunteers contributed 3,182 service hours. 95% have advanced by one reading grade level. 98% passed their grade. 100% of Forsyth County teachers report benefits from participating in the program.Connect Clubs: 515 middle and high school students participated in club programming. 26 volunteers provided 728 hours of student connections and support. Forsyth County School Counselor Feedback: Connect Clubs provide a safe and nurturing space for our students. Clubs provide invaluable assistance in ensuring that ALL students have a positive, meaningful relationship with a caring role model. Connect Clubs provided essential resources and curriculum that support students social and emotional well-being.
$272,755 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $272,755.
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.
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 $290k to $370k (+28%).
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: 2017 21% · 2018 18% · 2019 15% · 2020 19% · 2021 15% · 2022 12% · 2023 12% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Kerry Carithers
Executive director
Board chair
Jerry Frasso
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $21k → $82k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $109k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest North Georgia Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Mentor Me - North Georgia Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Mentor Me - North Georgia Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 funders by total. 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 Me - North Georgia Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 Me - North Georgia Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 61% · 2019 60% · 2020 80% · 2021 71% · 2022 73% · 2023 71% — growing more concentrated.
“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
60% of Mentor Me - North Georgia Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
97% of Mentor Me - North Georgia Inc's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $103k 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.
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In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mentor Me - North Georgia 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 Mentor Me - North Georgia Inc?
- Mentor Me - North Georgia Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $478,088 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC ($260,701). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mentor Me - North Georgia Inc have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $478,088 in grants to Mentor Me - North Georgia Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mentor Me - North Georgia Inc?
- UNITED WAY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $260,701 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mentor Me - North Georgia Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 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