Minnesota · Nonprofit
MENTOR NORTH
MENTOR NORTH (Minnesota) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,865,163 to it, the largest being ORDEAN FOUNDATION ($511,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $506k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $355k
What Mentor North does
Mission
The mission of Mentor North is to celebrate youth and support their families through one-on-one mentorship and community engagement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mentor North's integrated core programs, mentor duluth and mentor superior, provide professionally supported one-to-one mentoring for youth ages 7-18. Mentor North's individualized, relationship-centered approach strengthens each young person's circle of support while helping youth build lasting connections, confidence, and familiarity with their own communities. Mentor North's mentoring model is community-based rather than site-based. Youth are matched with trained, screened adult volunteer mentors based on personality, interests, and goals. Mentors commit to meeting with youth at least four hours per month for a minimum of one year; matches average more than two years. To promote safe, stable, and effective relationships, Mentor North staff recruit and screen mentors, conduct interviews and reference checks, complete background checks, provide mentor training, facilitate thoughtful matching, and conduct annual evaluations of program participants. Each match is supported by a program advocate who provides ongoing guidance, regular check-ins, monitoring, and troubleshooting support to mentors, youth, and caregivers. Staff work to strengthen matches when challenges arise and to…
$286,599 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $286,599.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $291k to $374k (+29%).
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: 2019 1% · 2020 4% · 2022 3% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of MENTOR NORTH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
Dan Rossow
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $36k → $310k.
4 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 NORTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 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 NORTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 NORTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 83% · 2019 62% · 2020 51% · 2021 42% · 2022 37% · 2023 33% — 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
71% of MENTOR NORTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
93% of MENTOR NORTH's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $128k 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 NORTH runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,734 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,734 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MENTOR NORTH
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% 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 MENTOR NORTH: 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 NORTH?
- MENTOR NORTH (Minnesota) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,865,163 to it, the largest being ORDEAN FOUNDATION ($511,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MENTOR NORTH have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,865,163 in grants to MENTOR NORTH, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MENTOR NORTH?
- ORDEAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $511,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MENTOR NORTH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 24 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing