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Windsor County Mentors Inc

Windsor County Mentors Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $442,025 to it, the largest being MENTOR Vermont Inc ($197,440). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$204k
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$442k
Net assets
$164k
14/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 53%
01What it does

What Windsor County Mentors Inc does

Mission

The mission of Windsor County Mentors is to create and support mentoring relationships between caring adults and youth to help them thrive. By doing so, we create opportunities for the youth of Windsor County, Vermont to realize their potential as healthy, responsible decision-makers. Mentoring offers vulnerable youth opportunities to share experiences with reliable adults to widen their vision of themselves, helping them to become confident, contributing members of their community.Our vision is that these youth will have the confidence and skills to direct their futures wisely.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Windsor County Mentors furthers its vision by creating and nurturing both school and community-based mentoring partnerships, free of charge, to any Windsor County child between 5 and 18 who could benefit from a long-term, trusting relationship with an adult in their community. In WCM's 50-year history, we have created more than 1,500 mentoring partnerships.Windsor County Mentors serves children across the largest county in the state, which is mostly rural. Most of the children in our programs are already at risk for stress-related issues throughout their lives. Our referrals come from school guidance counselors, and more than half of the children in our program are in kinship care with a non-parent relative and nearly all are low-income. We focus our efforts on quality, continuity, and geographic distribution. We maintain nationally recognized quality standards in our mentoring practice, including offering informational gatherings for our mentors.

    $140,373 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $140,373.

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 ($94k) Expenses 100 ($99k) Net assets 100 ($14k)2018 Revenue 136 ($129k) Expenses 112 ($111k) Net assets 225 ($31k)2019 Revenue 158 ($149k) Expenses 161 ($160k) Net assets 144 ($20k)2021 Revenue 146 ($138k) Expenses 116 ($115k) Net assets 567 ($79k)2022 Revenue 204 ($193k) Expenses 146 ($144k) Net assets 891 ($124k)2023 Revenue 155 ($146k) Expenses 154 ($152k) Net assets 873 ($121k)2024 Revenue 166 ($157k) Expenses 157 ($156k) Net assets 904 ($126k)2025 Revenue 216 ($204k) Expenses 175 ($174k) Net assets 1177 ($164k)
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Revenue (216)Expenses (175)Net assets (1177)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 $79k to $124k (+57%).

$15k
$36k
$29k
$79k
$124k
$122k
$126k
$164k
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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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 24% · 2018 17% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of Windsor County Mentors Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
$17k
’18
−$11k
’19
$23k
’21
$49k
’22
−$6k
’23
$2k
’24
$31k
’25
6.2
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.

201720182025
Listed779
Joined·+0·
No longer listed·0·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $12k → $73k.

4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Windsor County Mentors 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

Windsor County Mentors Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

72% 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 Windsor County Mentors Inc.

45%
largest funder
67%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 99% · 2019 97% · 2020 50% · 2021 67% · 2022 44% · 2023 40% — 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

71% of Windsor County Mentors Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

71% of Windsor County Mentors Inc's grant income comes from Vermont funders.

VT
NH
MA
NJ
TX

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

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Vermont out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

Windsor County Mentors Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve6.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Windsor County Mentors 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 15%Fundraising 4%

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

91%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Windsor County Mentors Inc?
Windsor County Mentors Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $442,025 to it, the largest being MENTOR Vermont Inc ($197,440). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Windsor County Mentors Inc have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $442,025 in grants to Windsor County Mentors Inc, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Windsor County Mentors Inc?
MENTOR Vermont Inc is the largest funder on record, with $197,440 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Windsor County Mentors Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 21 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