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MENTORING VIABLE PROSPECTS

MENTORING VIABLE PROSPECTS (Georgia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,700 to it, the largest being THE PLAYERS ALLIANCE INC ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$92k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$73k
Net assets
$49k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Mentoring Viable Prospects does

Mission

The mission of Mentoring Viable Prospects (mvp) is to provide opportunities and exposure for young athletes pursuing a college education. Our objective is to positively mentor each player in the areas of character development, social and emotional growth, academic achievement and physical well being. Mentoring Viable Prospects will set a foundation for success on and off the field.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Premier high school tournament baseball players have the possibility of getting reviewed by college and university coaches and scouts from the ncaa and mlb association.

    $55,987 spent
    91% of program spending
  2. Inspiration and guidance exposing players to the knowledge of how to: -set realistic aspirations -develop a baseball resume and video profile -network with collegiate baseball players and coaches -interpret data concerning baseball recruitment

    $4,390 spent
    7% of program spending
  3. Academic encouragement encourage players to maintain good habits, which can lead to "eye catching" gpa's and standardized test scores for collegiate applications and baseball scholarships.

    $1,000 spent
    2% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $61,377.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($91k) Expenses 100 ($99k) Net assets 100 ($22k)2024 Revenue 102 ($92k) Expenses 67 ($66k) Net assets 220 ($49k)
20232024
Revenue (102)Expenses (67)Net assets (220)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 2023 to 2024, from $22k to $49k (+120%).

$22k
$49k
20232024
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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 100% · 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of MENTORING VIABLE PROSPECTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,075 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

−$8k
’23
$27k
’24
8.9
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.

20232024
Listed44
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $25k.

Funder
'17
'18
'23
'24*
total
$40k
funders
1
3
1
1

From the IRS filings of MENTORING VIABLE PROSPECTS’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 VIABLE PROSPECTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 VIABLE PROSPECTS.

55%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 79% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

MENTORING VIABLE PROSPECTS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 2 states in all.

NY
NJ

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

’17
’18
’23
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 VIABLE PROSPECTS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin29% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like MENTORING VIABLE PROSPECTS

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 Georgia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
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.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MENTORING VIABLE PROSPECTS: 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 VIABLE PROSPECTS?
MENTORING VIABLE PROSPECTS (Georgia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,700 to it, the largest being THE PLAYERS ALLIANCE INC ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MENTORING VIABLE PROSPECTS have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $72,700 in grants to MENTORING VIABLE PROSPECTS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MENTORING VIABLE PROSPECTS?
THE PLAYERS ALLIANCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MENTORING VIABLE PROSPECTS 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 4 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