Washington · Nonprofit
MENTORING URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS
MENTORING URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS (Washington) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,266,496 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($815,485). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $972k
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $638k
What Mentoring Urban Students & Teens does
Mission
To find responsible African American men in their early to mid 20s to help spring kids free from the hardest generational cycles of poverty through long-term mentoring.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mentoring - 6 African American Mentors are being coached through college by meeting with their Coach during the month. Only 11% of first generation low income students finish college. All MUST Mentors are on track to finish college. These mentors are working with 14 vulnerable African American high school students through weekly one-on-one breakfasts. These students also go on group outings twice a month. The outings are designed for fun, to stretch the youth and mentors and also to give them life skills that will help them succeed. About 1/2 of the youth we serve would drop out of high school without our intervention. All but one youth is on track to graduate high school. The younger guys watch the older for four years and begin to think, 'If he can do it... so can I!'
$711,351 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $711,351.
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 2021 to 2022, from $537k to $863k (+61%).
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: 2018 28% · 2019 22% · 2020 4% · 2021 12% · 2022 7% · 2023 49% · 2024 20% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of MENTORING URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Robert Fulton
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $20k → $261k.
8 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS’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 URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 81% · 2019 53% · 2020 26% · 2021 26% · 2022 50% · 2023 39% — 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
21% of MENTORING URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
75% of MENTORING URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $565k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
MENTORING URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MENTORING URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MENTORING URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS: 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 MENTORING URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS?
- MENTORING URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS (Washington) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,266,496 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($815,485). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MENTORING URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $2,266,496 in grants to MENTORING URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MENTORING URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $815,485 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MENTORING URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS 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.
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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 28 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