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VIP MENTORING INC

VIP MENTORING INC (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $352,511 to it, the largest being FORD PHILANTHROPY ($187,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2019
$100k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$353k
Net assets
$71k
6/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 65%
01What it does

What Vip Mentoring Inc does

Mission

To create sustainable, meaningful mentoring relationships for children in the state of michgian, especially detroit, whose difficult circumstances seriously impacts their ability to succeed.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.

Program

Mentoring children dealing with difficult circumstances like parental incarceration and high levels of poverty.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

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 ($579k) Expenses 100 ($495k) Net assets 100 ($382k)2018 Revenue 81 ($468k) Expenses 99 ($491k) Net assets 94 ($358k)2019 Revenue 17 ($100k) Expenses 78 ($387k) Net assets 19 ($71k)
201720182019
Revenue (17)Expenses (78)Net assets (19)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 2018 to 2019, from $370k to $78k (−79%).

$389k
$370k
$78k
201720182019
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of VIP MENTORING INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,020 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$84k
’17
−$24k
’18
−$287k
’19
8.3
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.

20172018
Listed1112
Joined·+1
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $76k → $40k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'23
'24*
total
Amachi Incunclassified
$102k
$21k
funders
3
3
2
1
2
3
1

1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 VIP MENTORING 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

VIP MENTORING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

47% 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 VIP MENTORING INC.

53%
largest funder
90%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 65% · 2019 77% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 63% — 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.

Where its funders are

61% of VIP MENTORING INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI
PA
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’21
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

VIP MENTORING INC's revenue fell 83% between 2017 and 2019.

Operating margin−288% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−59% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,157 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2019

Organizations like VIP MENTORING 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 Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

61%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VIP 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds VIP MENTORING INC?
VIP MENTORING INC (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $352,511 to it, the largest being FORD PHILANTHROPY ($187,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VIP MENTORING INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $352,511 in grants to VIP MENTORING INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VIP MENTORING INC?
FORD PHILANTHROPY is the largest funder on record, with $187,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VIP MENTORING INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 6 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