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MENTORING PLUS INC

MENTORING PLUS INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $257,151 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($42,400). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$247k
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$257k
Net assets
$3k
9/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Mentoring Plus Inc does

Mission

To provide mentoring, structured programming and case management services to high-risk youth and their families.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Main objectives include improve youth attitudes toward drugs and alcohol, decreaseusage of drugs and alcohol, improve family relationships, improve attitudes towardschool and education, assist with job readiness skills and engage youth in communityactivities

    $15,136 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $15,136.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($186k) Expenses 100 ($196k) Net assets 100 ($43k)2018 Revenue 151 ($280k) Expenses 122 ($239k) Net assets 194 ($84k)2019 Revenue 128 ($238k) Expenses 126 ($247k) Net assets 172 ($75k)2020 Revenue 121 ($224k) Expenses 132 ($259k) Net assets 91 ($40k)2021 Revenue 167 ($311k) Expenses 120 ($236k) Net assets 264 ($114k)2022 Revenue 139 ($258k) Expenses 130 ($254k) Net assets 272 ($118k)2023 Revenue 131 ($243k) Expenses 145 ($284k) Net assets 180 ($78k)2024 Revenue 125 ($232k) Expenses 140 ($274k) Net assets 79 ($34k)2025 Revenue 133 ($247k) Expenses 142 ($278k) Net assets 8 ($3k)
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Revenue (133)Expenses (142)Net assets (8)Peer revenue range

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 $65k to $20k (−69%).

$46k
$85k
$76k
$106k
$143k
$148k
$109k
$65k
$20k
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2018 10% · 2019 6% · 2020 9% · 2021 41% · 2022 14% · 2023 49% · 2024 65% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

57% of MENTORING PLUS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$11k
’17
$41k
’18
−$10k
’19
−$35k
’20
$75k
’21
$3k
’22
−$41k
’23
−$43k
’24
−$31k
’25
0.9
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.

Chief executive

Chris Saunders

Executive director

Board chair

Larry Brown

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed14119111112121214
Joined·+2+1+5+3+2+0+3+6
No longer listed·53331034
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $31k → $8k.

6 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 MENTORING PLUS INC’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

MENTORING PLUS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 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 MENTORING PLUS INC.

16%
largest funder
41%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 30% · 2019 56% · 2020 30% · 2021 41% · 2022 71% · 2023 62% — 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

27% of MENTORING PLUS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

MENTORING PLUS INC draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 8 states in all.

MI
MA
IN
OH
PA
KY
DE
NC

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $121k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Against its field

MENTORING PLUS INC's revenue grew 33% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−12% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like MENTORING PLUS INC

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 Kentucky

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

5% of spending goes to programs.

Program 5%Management 91%Fundraising 3%

Governance

14
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 2 states

OH
KY

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Questions and answers

Who funds MENTORING PLUS INC?
MENTORING PLUS INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $257,151 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($42,400). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MENTORING PLUS INC have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $257,151 in grants to MENTORING PLUS INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MENTORING PLUS INC?
THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $42,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MENTORING PLUS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 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