Washington · Nonprofit
MENTOR Washington
MENTOR Washington (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $662,805 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ($402,645). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $663k
- Net assets
- $841k
What MENTOR Washington does
Mission
To promote, support and expand quality mentoring that fosters postive youth development, academic success, and job and career readiness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mentor Washington is the unifying leader for expanding quality mentoring relationships for youth in Washington State, collaborating with the private, public and nonprofit sectors so that youth have the support they need to succeed at home, school and ultimately, work. For over 20 years, MW has helped start new programs, assisted programs to expand and trained and coached programs in implementing research-based best practices that are essential for attaining positive outcomes for youth. MW supports nearly 150 youth mentoring and youth development programs statewide. Primary services: Training and consultation, quality assurance, marketing for volunteer mentor recruitment, grant making, and partnerships to incubate innovative program models.
$1,173,333 spentof which $353,308 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,173,333.
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. 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 2020 to 2021, from $524k to $713k (+36%).
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: 2021 8% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of MENTOR Washington’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Harriette Bryant
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $16k → $68k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Washington’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 Washington leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 Washington.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 65% · 2019 71% · 2020 100% · 2021 84% · 2022 53% · 2023 55% — 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
13% of MENTOR Washington'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
MENTOR Washington draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k 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 Washington is better cushioned than half of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MENTOR Washington
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- College Success Foundation · exempt
- College Success Foundation-DC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MENTOR Washington: 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 Washington?
- MENTOR Washington (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $662,805 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ($402,645). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MENTOR Washington have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $662,805 in grants to MENTOR Washington, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MENTOR Washington?
- TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $402,645 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MENTOR Washington find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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