California · Nonprofit
MENTORS DRIVING CHANGE FOR BOYS MEN AND DADS
MENTORS DRIVING CHANGE FOR BOYS MEN AND DADS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,780 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ($51,550). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $238k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $70k
- Net assets
- $85k
What Mentors Driving Change for Boys Men and Dads does
Mission
MENtors provides educational programs, supportive networks, system navigation, access to resources and services, and self-awareness groups for boys, young men, men, and fathers. Through a focus on social-emotional learning and the 41 Developmental Assets, we help participants strengthen their relationships with themselves, their families, and their communities while building confidence, resilience, accountability, communication skills, and a stronger sense of purpose. Our programs create safe and supportive spaces where participants can reflect on their lived experiences, develop healthy relationship skills, increase emotional awareness, access positive mentorship, and receive guidance navigating systems such as schools, child support, family court, child welfare, probation, workforce development, and community-based services. These supports help participants build the tools needed to thrive at home, in school, at work, and in the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
MENtors provides father involvement and co-parenting groups for fathers in Santa Cruz County who are involved with the Probation, Child Welfare, and Family Court systems. The program is designed to support fathers in strengthening their role as parents, improving their relationships with their children and co-parents, and increasing their ability to navigate complex systems that impact their families. Through weekly group sessions and individual consultations, fathers receive education, guidance, and practical tools related to fatherhood, parent-child relationships, co-parenting, communication, accountability, emotional awareness, and family engagement. The program creates a supportive and structured space where fathers can reflect on their experiences, identify barriers to healthy involvement, build parenting confidence, and develop skills that promote safety, stability, and connection within their families. In addition to group-based learning, MENtors provides individualized support to help fathers better understand expectations and requirements connected to probation, child welfare, family court, visitation, case plans, child support, and reunification or co-parenting goals.…
$95,828 spent$144,247 earned by the program57% of program spendingMENtors provides boys and young men's groups for middle and high school students in Santa Cruz County. The program offers weekly group sessions and individual consultations focused on boyhood, healthy manhood, parent-child relationships, family connection, social-emotional learning, and positive identity development. To date, the program has served more than 50 youth, with 80% demonstrating significant positive changes in behavior, attitude, and engagement with their families. The program uses the 41 Developmental Assets framework and The Mask You Live In curriculum to help boys and young men explore identity, emotions, relationships, communication, respect, accountability, and the pressures connected to boyhood and manhood. In each session, boys and young men are invited to participate in pre- and post-reflective assessments that support mindfulness, emotional awareness, and self-reflection. These reflections help participants identify the state of their emotions and feelings, engage in introspective conversations connected to key developmental assets, and strengthen their social and emotional regulation and development. Through this process, participants build greater…
$41,777 spent$44,994 earned by the program25% of program spendingMENtors provides community engagement activities, including conferences, trainings, presentations, workshops, and collaborative learning opportunities for organizations, agencies, schools, and community partners serving boys, young men, men, fathers, and families. These activities are designed to increase awareness, strengthen professional knowledge, and promote more effective, father-friendly, youth-centered, and culturally responsive practices across systems and communities.** **In addition to community education and training, MENtors offers organizational technical support to agencies that serve or interact with boys, young men, men, and dads. This support may include consultation, program design guidance, father-friendly organizational assessments, staff training, curriculum development, referral pathway support, and strategies for improving engagement with fathers, male caregivers, and young men.** **Through these efforts, MENtors helps organizations build their capacity to create welcoming, inclusive, and responsive environments that recognize the important role of fathers, father figures, mentors, and positive male relationships in the lives of children, youth, families,…
$30,551 spent$48,821 earned by the program18% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $168,156.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $33k to $62k (+86%).
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: 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of MENTORS DRIVING CHANGE FOR BOYS MEN AND DADS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Deutron Kebebew
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $17k → $14k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 DRIVING CHANGE FOR BOYS MEN AND DADS’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 DRIVING CHANGE FOR BOYS MEN AND DADS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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 MENTORS DRIVING CHANGE FOR BOYS MEN AND DADS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 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
74% of MENTORS DRIVING CHANGE FOR BOYS MEN AND DADS'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 $18k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 DRIVING CHANGE FOR BOYS MEN AND DADS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MENTORS DRIVING CHANGE FOR BOYS MEN AND DADS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MENTORS DRIVING CHANGE FOR BOYS MEN AND DADS?
- MENTORS DRIVING CHANGE FOR BOYS MEN AND DADS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,780 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ($51,550). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MENTORS DRIVING CHANGE FOR BOYS MEN AND DADS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $69,780 in grants to MENTORS DRIVING CHANGE FOR BOYS MEN AND DADS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MENTORS DRIVING CHANGE FOR BOYS MEN AND DADS?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $51,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MENTORS DRIVING CHANGE FOR BOYS MEN AND DADS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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