Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SILVER LINING MENTORING INC
SILVER LINING MENTORING INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 107 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,892,779 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($3,000,000). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SILVER LINING MENTORING INC has grown faster than half of the 922 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 922 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Bain Capital Children's Charity Ltdshared funderslocal
- One Percent for Educationportfolio match
- Chase Alice P Tr Uindportfolio match
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.
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 9% · 2018 6% · 2019 1% · 2020 14% · 2021 11% · 2022 2% · 2023 8% · 2024 11% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of SILVER LINING MENTORING INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $641k → $2.1M.
16 of 107 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 SILVER LINING MENTORING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 107 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
SILVER LINING MENTORING INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
55% 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 SILVER LINING MENTORING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 13% · 2019 15% · 2020 12% · 2021 18% · 2022 62% · 2023 13% — 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
60% of SILVER LINING MENTORING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
81% of SILVER LINING MENTORING INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 107 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Bain Capital Children's Charity Ltdshared funderslocalMA · backs 54 organizations that share your funders · funds 79 organizations near you
- One Percent for Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chase Alice P Tr Uindportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fay Eugene F Tr Uwillportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The John H and H Naomi Tomfohrde Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 49 organizations that share your funders
- Ac Ratshesky Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 36 organizations that share your funders
- Boston After School & Beyond Incshared funderslocalMA · backs 64 organizations that share your funders · funds 170 organizations near you
- New Balance Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 43 organizations that share your funders
- Life Science Cares Incshared fundersMA · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
- Rowland Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
- Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- Lawrence J and Anne Rubenstein Charitable Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding SILVER LINING MENTORING INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$1.2M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$364k
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.
Organizations like SILVER LINING MENTORING INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SILVER LINING MENTORING INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SILVER LINING MENTORING INC?
- SILVER LINING MENTORING INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 107 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,892,779 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($3,000,000). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SILVER LINING MENTORING INC have?
- IRS filings report 107 organizations giving $14,892,779 in grants to SILVER LINING MENTORING INC, 72 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SILVER LINING MENTORING INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SILVER LINING MENTORING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 107funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing