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Mentors International

Mentors International (Utah) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,765,797 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,634,385). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.4M
Funders on record
65
Grants received
$9.8M
Net assets
$5.1M
41/65 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 53%
01What it does

What Mentors International does

Mission

Lifting families and entrepreneurs around the world from poverty to self-reliance and economic prosperity through personal and business mentoring.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. During our 2025 fiscal year, Mentors International served 43,160 families across 12 developing countries. When including dependents and employees, we estimate that 258,960 individuals benefited from our programs. During this fiscal year, our Mentors provided 173,582 mentoring sessions and 72% of our participants were women. During this reporting period, the individuals served by Mentors International experienced notable financial growth, with an average income increase of 53%, a 65% rise in personal savings, and a 22% reduction in consumer debt.

    $5,985,920 spentof which $244,613 as grants$797,035 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,985,920.

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 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($259k)2018 Revenue 94 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 148 ($383k)2019 Revenue 93 ($1.7M) Expenses 80 ($1.2M) Net assets 311 ($805k)2020 Revenue 134 ($2.4M) Expenses 123 ($1.9M) Net assets 1037 ($2.7M)2021 Revenue 251 ($4.4M) Expenses 133 ($2.0M) Net assets 2070 ($5.4M)2022 Revenue 208 ($3.7M) Expenses 192 ($3.0M) Net assets 2214 ($5.7M)2023 Revenue 234 ($4.1M) Expenses 276 ($4.3M) Net assets 2286 ($5.9M)2024 Revenue 248 ($4.4M) Expenses 337 ($5.2M) Net assets 2098 ($5.4M)2025 Revenue 361 ($6.4M) Expenses 435 ($6.7M) Net assets 1968 ($5.1M)
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Revenue (361)Expenses (435)Net assets (1968)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 2020 to 2021, from $2.9M to $5.7M (+96%).

$846k
$654k
$866k
$2.9M
$5.7M
$6.2M
$6.9M
$6.7M
$6.2M
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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: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

84% of Mentors International’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,680 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$228k
’17
$124k
’18
$422k
’19
$471k
’20
$2.4M
’21
$726k
’22
−$119k
’23
−$811k
’24
−$318k
’25
5.5
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

Peter Sturgeon

CEO

Board chair

Elizabeth Mumford

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed20171614131314913
Joined·+1+2+10+2+0+6+2+4
No longer listed·431230570
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $726k → $2.1M.

14 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 International’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 funders by total. 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 International has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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

51% 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 International.

17%
largest funder
38%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 52% · 2019 39% · 2020 30% · 2021 21% · 2022 22% · 2023 24% — 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

44% of Mentors International's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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

97% of Mentors International's grant income comes from Utah funders.

ID
WI
MI
CA
UT
CO
MD
AZ
KS
AR
NC
OK
TX
FL

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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

Mentors International is better cushioned than half of the 798 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Mentors International

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 Utah

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 4%Fundraising 7%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

80%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Mentors International?
Mentors International (Utah) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,765,797 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,634,385). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Mentors International have?
IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $9,765,797 in grants to Mentors International, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Mentors International?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,634,385 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Mentors International find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 65 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing