New York · Nonprofit
National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc
National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc (New York) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,050,169 to it, the largest being THE OPRAH WINFREY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,600,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $8.1M
What National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc does
Mission
We are a community-mobilization movement that recruits, trains and places mentors; and builds programs that provide wellness and academic support for children from low-income communities. Since 2006, we have recruited more than 150,000 volunteer mentors.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The rising: elevating education, expectations and self-esteemin place-based settings, during school hours, young people are led through an interactive curriculum by facilitators who are psychologists, counselors, and social workers. Community volunteers and skills-based mentors provide additional supports. The students learn to unearth their innate power to make positive life-propelling choices. The interactive activities build social-emotional skills, self-confidence, critical thinking skills and self-efficacy. Our model blends a holistic approach to self-efficacy with workforce readiness and career exploration activities that meet young people where they are without judgment. In wellness mentoring circles (wmc), cares facilitators lead students through a curriculum designed to help middle- and high-school participants identify their stressors and prepare for post-secondary success. The students learn coping strategies, self-regulation, how to soothe anxiety and unearth self-awareness and critical thinking. Our curriculum is comprised of ten pillars that include stress management, wellness and financial education. Wmcs are compassionate spaces, they are safe and intimate groups…
$1,624,868 spent54% of program spendingAffiliate development and mentor recruitment and training: our work is only possible because of our local cares affiliate leaders, a volunteer army of caring and committed adults who recruit, train and deploy loving mentors, and our national community impact partners, from whom we recruit mentors and leverage reseach and healing-centered practices. We support and strengthen the leadership capacity of our affiliate network through monthly group teleconferences, weekly one-on-one support calls, dedicated staff support and annual all-affiliate training conference, which was held at columbia university in nyc in 2024. United by our principles and mission, our leaders across 58 u.s. Cities effectively recruit adults to serve as mentors and deploy them to schools and youth-support organizations that are in need of black volunteer mentors. Cultural competency is embedded in all affiliate activities and is necessary for volunteer engagement, education, and retention, and supported via community wellness and wealth-building circles (community circles).community circles provide a compassionate place for reflection and connection, where our mentors and other community leaders can learn to…
$553,245 spent$30,920 earned by the program18% of program spendingUniversity for parents:the university for parents (u4p) is designed to assist parents in overcoming systemic and self-imposed barriers to self-sufficiency and sustainability. The university for parents is a curricula-based, workforce-development and healing initiative that provides spaces for parent-learners to process trauma, re-awaken hope and learn a variety of skills that enhance their ability to secure fulfilling jobs with livable wages and engage in transforming their community. U4p works with community and corporate partners to provide wraparound services to parent-learners and their families and enrichment classes in literacy, parenting, money management, entrepreneurship, computer training and civic engagement. By participating in u4p, parent-learners develop job skills and are connected to programs that advance their ability to become employed. In 2024, over 220 parents enrolled in the virtual program, allowing us to reach more participants. And 80% of parent learners in the workforce development achievement track successfully obtained new or improved employment, allowing them to earn liveable wages. Signature events such as the annual empowerme conference, and classes…
$405,348 spent13% of program spendingThe hbcu rising: a community schools-campus stem initiative: the hbcu rising aims to fill the pipeline of jobs which use stem skills, for which the representation of african american participation is by far the lowest of any ethnic or racial group. The three-tiered mentoring program uses corporate volunteers in stem-related professions to coach college students from historically black colleges and universities (hbcus), who in turn, mentor middle and elementary school students. The program helps to propel them toward social and economic mobility and instills critical-thinking skills, discipline, self-confidence, and a love for learning. Over 600 students, in atlanta, were served both in person and then virtually. Additionally, wellness mentoring circles and referrals to mental health resources were provided to the college-student mentors to help them to manage the stress created by the pandemic. A new program partnership with southern university-new orleans (suno) allowed us to recruit college mentors and pilot our hbcu rising programmatic expansion.
$286,797 spent10% of program spendingExpansion Projects
$134,309 spent4% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,004,567.
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 2020 to 2021, from $4.0M to $6.8M (+72%).
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: 2017 4% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 2% · 2023 7% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
102% of National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Susan L Taylor
Founder & CEO
Board chair
Reginald Van Lee
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $1.2M.
22 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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
National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
34% 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 National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 48% · 2019 36% · 2020 18% · 2021 16% · 2022 48% · 2023 23% — 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
20% of National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc'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
National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of Justice$2.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc?
- National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc (New York) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,050,169 to it, the largest being THE OPRAH WINFREY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,600,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $10,050,169 in grants to National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc?
- THE OPRAH WINFREY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 70 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