Form 990 for tax year 2025

Totals

Total revenue

$6,327,354

Total expenses

$8,398,853

Contributions and grants received

$5,357,944

Grants paid

$464,626

Program service revenue

$938,950

Investment income

$95,931

Other revenue

-$65,471

Total assets, end of year

$4,658,608

Total liabilities, end of year

$696,074

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$3,962,534

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$7,168,158

Management and general expenses

$477,385

Fundraising expenses

$753,310

Program service expenses (Part III)

$7,168,158

Program services were 85.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2025

• AFFILIATE NETWORK SUPPORT & DEVELOPMENTIN 2025, MENTOR ADVANCED LOCAL FIELD LEADERSHIP BY SUPPORTING AND EXPANDING 23 MENTOR AFFILIATES. IN THIS WORK, MENTOR PARTNERED WITH, SUPPORTED, AND PROVIDED PASS-THROUGH FUNDING TO ITS NETWORK OF 23 AFFILIATES. MENTOR SUPPORTED 100% OF AFFILIATES IN DEVELOPING AN ORGANIZATIONAL OPERATING AND EVALUATION PLAN AND HOSTED ITS ANNUAL GATHERING OF AFFILIATES AND WELCOMED ATTENDEES FROM ACROSS THE AFFILIATE NETWORK FOR TRAINING, PEER LEARNING, AND COMMUNITY BUILDING.

  Expenses $1,241,267 · Grants $451,626

• PRODUCT AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENTONE OF MENTOR'S CORE OBJECTIVES IS TO IDENTIFY, PROMOTE, AND DRIVE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES COMBINED WITH COMMUNITY WISDOM TO INCREASE THE QUALITY OF MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. MENTOR PURSUES THIS WORK BY ENSURING THAT LEADING-EDGE RESEARCH, EVIDENCE FROM THE FIELD, COMMUNITY INSIGHTS, AND EFFECTIVE TRAINING CONVERGE TO INCREASE, SUSTAIN, AND EVALUATE THE QUALITY OF MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. THROUGH THIS WORK, MENTOR ALSO PARTNERS WITH KEY THOUGHT LEADERS IN THE YOUTH-SERVICES FIELD TO BUILD THE EVIDENCE BASE AND SUPPORT FOR MENTORING AS A SYSTEMIC SOLUTION FOR IMPROVED YOUTH OUTCOMES IN AMERICA. A FEW EXAMPLES OF 2025 ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN THIS WORK INCLUDE THAT MENTOR: 1) LED THE NATIONAL MENTORING RESOURCE CENTER TO PROVIDE MORE THAN 11,000 HOURS OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO MENTORING PROGRAMS SERVING YOUNG PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY; 2) LAUNCHED A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE U.S. SOCCER FOUNDATION TO DEVELOP RESOURCES AND TRAININGS TO SUPPORT YOUTH SPORT AND RECREATION VOLUNTEERS, STAFF, AND LEADERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN ADOPTING MENTORING PRACTICES; 3) CONDUCTED A FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND NATIONAL SURVEY FOCUSED ON THE EXPERIENCES AND CAREER PATHS OF MENTORING PROFESSIONALS, PUBLISHING AND DISSEMINATING KEY FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS IN MOVEMENT MAKERS: A REPORT ON THE STATE OF THE YOUTH MENTORING WORKFORCE; AND 4) PUBLISHED THE MENTORING PROGRAM'S GUIDE TO YOUTH PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH: INTEGRATING MEANINGFUL RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES INTO MENTORING SERVICES, LAUNCHED A COMPANION ONLINE RESOURCE HUB, AND HOSTED A FOUR-PART VIRTUAL TRAINING SERIES.

  Expenses $3,789,345 · Revenue $413,770

• PROMOTION, PUBLIC EDUCATION & POLICY MENTOR PROMOTES THE YOUTH MENTORING FIELD BY MOTIVATING CIVIC LEADERS, EMPLOYEES, AND INDIVIDUALS TO PRIORITIZE AND INVEST IN ENSURING ALL YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE ACCESS TO MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS. IN 2025, MENTOR PROMOTED THE USE OF THE MENTORING CONNECTOR, THE SINGLE NATIONAL DATABASE OF QUALITY MENTORING VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES. IN 2025, THERE WERE 16,054 SEARCHES FOR LOCAL MENTORING OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH THE MENTORING CONNECTOR. MENTOR HOSTED THE ANNUAL CAPITOL HILL DAY DURING NATIONAL MENTORING MONTH IN JANUARY, BRINGING TOGETHER OVER 280 YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND MENTORING PROGRAM STAFF, ADVOCATES, RESEARCHERS, YOUTH, AND OTHERS TO SHARE WITH CONGRESS THE VALUE AND POSITIVE IMPACT MENTORING HAS ON YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR RESPECTIVE COMMUNITIES.IN 2025, MENTOR RECEIVED FUNDING FROM THE OFFICE OF JUVENILE JUSTICE AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION TO CONTINUE OPERATING ITS NATIONAL MENTORING RESOURCE CENTER, OFFERING TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FROM THE MENTORING FIELD. MENTOR ALSO CONTINUED TO CO-LEAD ADVOCACY EFFORTS TO PROTECT AND GROW IN FY25 FOR THE YOUTH MENTORING GRANT, THE ONLY MENTORING-SPECIFIC LINE ITEM IN THE FEDERAL BUDGET.

  Expenses $974,885

• MENTOR ANNUALLY HOSTS THE NATIONAL MENTORING SUMMIT IN WASHINGTON DC, THE ONLY NATIONAL CONVENING OF YOUTH MENTORING PROFESSIONALS, RESEARCHERS, CORPORATE PARTNERS, AND GOVERNMENT AND CIVIC LEADERS FOCUSED ON STRENGTHENING AND EXPANDING QUALITY MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE NATIONWIDE. IN JANUARY 2025, MENTOR HOSTED THE NATIONAL MENTORING SUMMIT, WHICH WELCOMED 1,369 PEOPLE FROM 48 STATES AND TERRITORIES AND 6 COUNTRIES.

  Expenses $1,162,661 · Grants $13,000 · Revenue $566,172

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• MENTOR MD DC

  $150,000

  GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• ENTERPRISE PALM BEACH INC DBA COLABRIA

  $98,346

  GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• UNITED WAYS OF TEXAS FOR MENTOR TEXAS

  $75,000

  GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• MENTOR GEORGIA INC

  $51,654

  GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• VIRGINIA MENTORING PARTNERSHIP

  $50,000

  GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• MENTORING PARTNERSHIP OF NEW YORK

  $12,250

  GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2025

Filed

29 July 2026

IRS schema version

2025v4.2

Source object

202622119349301592

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