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SOUTHCOAST MENTORING INITIATIVE FOR LEARNING EDUCATION AND SERVICE INC

SOUTHCOAST MENTORING INITIATIVE FOR LEARNING EDUCATION AND SERVICE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,933 to it, the largest being Global Impact ($63,405). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$700
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$141k
Net assets
$-1627
5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Southcoast Mentoring Initiative for Learning Education and Service Inc does

Mission

Advancing mentoring of school children in the southcoast region of massachusetts as a primary strategy for reducing the school drop-out rate.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Reduce school drop-out rate by matching quality adult mentors with identified at-risk youth.

    $22,567 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $22,567.

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 ($201k) Expenses 100 ($210k) Net assets 100 ($71k)2018 Revenue 118 ($237k) Expenses 92 ($194k) Net assets 160 ($114k)2019 Revenue 83 ($167k) Expenses 76 ($160k) Net assets 171 ($121k)2020 Revenue 53 ($107k) Expenses 68 ($143k) Net assets 119 ($85k)2021 Revenue 37 ($74k) Expenses 33 ($69k) Net assets 126 ($90k)2022 Revenue 29 ($59k) Expenses 21 ($43k) Net assets 148 ($105k)2023 Revenue 0 ($580) Expenses 15 ($31k) Net assets 105 ($75k)2024 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 17 ($35k) Net assets 56 ($40k)2025 Revenue 0 ($700) Expenses 20 ($42k) Net assets -2 ($-1627)
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Revenue (0)Expenses (20)Net assets (-2)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 2021 to 2022, from $209k to $116k (−44%).

$80k
$151k
$152k
$159k
$209k
$116k
$115k
$115k
$116k
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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 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of SOUTHCOAST MENTORING INITIATIVE FOR LEARNING EDUCATION AND SERVICE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$9k
’17
$43k
’18
$8k
’19
−$37k
’20
$5k
’21
$16k
’22
−$31k
’23
−$35k
’24
−$41k
’25
33
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

Megan Stirk

President/CEO

Board chair

Jason Rua

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.

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Listed161920171716151616
Joined·+3+3+1+0+0+0+2+0
No longer listed·02401110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $22k.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 SOUTHCOAST MENTORING INITIATIVE FOR LEARNING EDUCATION AND SERVICE INC’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

SOUTHCOAST MENTORING INITIATIVE FOR LEARNING EDUCATION AND SERVICE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

91% 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 SOUTHCOAST MENTORING INITIATIVE FOR LEARNING EDUCATION AND SERVICE INC.

45%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 57% · 2019 59% · 2020 88% — growing more concentrated.

“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

60% of SOUTHCOAST MENTORING INITIATIVE FOR LEARNING EDUCATION AND SERVICE INC'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 $57k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

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

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’20
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

SOUTHCOAST MENTORING INITIATIVE FOR LEARNING EDUCATION AND SERVICE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5910% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve33.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−51% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like SOUTHCOAST MENTORING INITIATIVE FOR LEARNING EDUCATION AND SERVICE INC

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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

54% of spending goes to programs.

Program 54%Management 46%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

MA

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • People Incorporated · exempt
  • Property Innovations Inc · exempt
  • Diabetes Association Inc · exempt
  • People Improving Communities and Neighborhoods · exempt
  • People Incorpation Nmtc Support Corporation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOUTHCOAST MENTORING INITIATIVE FOR LEARNING EDUCATION AND SERVICE INC?
SOUTHCOAST MENTORING INITIATIVE FOR LEARNING EDUCATION AND SERVICE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,933 to it, the largest being Global Impact ($63,405). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SOUTHCOAST MENTORING INITIATIVE FOR LEARNING EDUCATION AND SERVICE INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $140,933 in grants to SOUTHCOAST MENTORING INITIATIVE FOR LEARNING EDUCATION AND SERVICE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTHCOAST MENTORING INITIATIVE FOR LEARNING EDUCATION AND SERVICE INC?
Global Impact is the largest funder on record, with $63,405 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTHCOAST MENTORING INITIATIVE FOR LEARNING EDUCATION AND SERVICE 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.

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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 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