Missouri · Nonprofit
MENTORS 4 COLLEGE
MENTORS 4 COLLEGE (Missouri) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,465 to it, the largest being Jewish Federation of St Louis ($42,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $74k
- Net assets
- $74k
What Mentors 4 College does
Mission
The purpose of the "Mentors 4 College" corporation is to provide free mentoring to high school students with the goal of helping them find their "ideal" post-secondary educational path and institution, and then apply to that institution. We aim to level the playing field for all high school students interested in college, regardless of income or ethnicity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Founded in 2011 with initial sponsorship from Parkway North High School in St. Louis County, Mentors 4 College (M4C) operates entirely through volunteers. Since its inception, M4C has assisted almost 2,000 students and families, experiencing significant growth from 60 students and 20 mentors in 2011 to 400 students and 65 mentors in 2024. We have provided services to 7,000 individual clients, including students, parents and guardians, as well as school counselors and administrators in dozens of St Louis area high schools and many more across the country. Given the overwhelming demands on high school counselors, M4C's mission is to supplement their efforts and extend their reach, working with students and parents to identify post-high school educational programs aligning with career interests, academics, social factors, and financial considerations. With a robust mentoring program, a comprehensive, scalable training curriculum and a full range of mentor support systems, M4C is expanding into the St. Louis Promise Zone. Our diversity initiative aims to serve at-risk communities and BIPOC students across the region. Currently, 35% of our students are minorities or from distressed…
$23,369 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $23,369.
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.
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 $66k to $74k (+11%).
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.
100% of MENTORS 4 COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $500 → $6k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 MENTORS 4 COLLEGE’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
MENTORS 4 COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 MENTORS 4 COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 39% · 2023 91% — 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.
Where its funders are
77% of MENTORS 4 COLLEGE'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 $17k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k 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
MENTORS 4 COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MENTORS 4 COLLEGE
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MENTORS 4 COLLEGE: 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 MENTORS 4 COLLEGE?
- MENTORS 4 COLLEGE (Missouri) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,465 to it, the largest being Jewish Federation of St Louis ($42,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MENTORS 4 COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $74,465 in grants to MENTORS 4 COLLEGE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MENTORS 4 COLLEGE?
- Jewish Federation of St Louis is the largest funder on record, with $42,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MENTORS 4 COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 7 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