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Grants for adult / child mentoring programs
409 adult / child mentoring and big brother and sister programs received at least $1.7 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 767 grants made from 546 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,500. Of these 546 foundations, 89% made just a single grant to mentoring programs, and 3% made grants to four or more mentoring programs. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.
$1,651,949
Total grant dollars given to adult / child mentoring programs
767
Number of grants made annually to adult / child mentoring programs
546
Number of grantmakers funding adult / child mentoring programs
$1,500
Median grant size to adult / child mentoring programs
Foundations that support adult / child mentoring and big brother and sister programs
Foundation size
| Foundation size | Number of grantmakers |
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| Small | |
| Medium | |
| Large | |
Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.
Grants made
| Grants made to mentoring programs | Number of grantmakers |
|---|
| 1 | |
| 2-3 | |
| 4-10 | |
| 11+ | |
Top 10 foundations supporting adult / child mentoring and big brother and sister programs
Adult / child mentoring and big brother and sister programs grantees
Adult / child mentoring programs with more than $5 million in total revenues received 15% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 15% of all mentoring programs.
Grant amounts
| Size of grant | Number of grants |
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| <$10k | |
| $10k-$25k | |
| $25k-$100k | |
| $100k+ | |
Grant amount by grantee size
| Grantee annual revenue | Median grant size |
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| <$100k | |
| $100k-$500k | |
| $500k-$1M | |
| $1M-$5M | |
| >$5M | |
Top 25 grants made to adult / child mentoring programs
| Grantee | Grant size | Purpose | Grantmaker |
|---|
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago | $5,000 | Unrestricted General | The A Montgomery Ward Foundation |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star | $5,000 | General Support | Little Big Shot |
| Kinship Partners | $5,000 | Youth Support Activities | The Anderson Family Legacy Foundation |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta | $5,000 | Metro Atl Eat-Cook-Grow | TW Price Gilbert JR Charitable Fund |
| Ohuddle Incorporated | $5,000 | Shared Transportation Cost | Charles W and Laura B Frick Irr |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Lowcountry | $5,000 | General Purpose | Patrick Family Foundation |
| Women of Tomorrow Mentor and Scholarship Program | $5,000 | Education | The Detroit Public Schools Foundation |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kentuckiana | $5,000 | Charitable | Larson Foundation |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeastern Wisconsin | $5,000 | Community Impact Grant | M3 Insurance Foundation |
| N H N T X | $5,000 | Funding Programs Dedicated To Helping At-Risk Children and Teens Growing Up in Environments of Poverty, Academic Failure and Hopelessness | Overflowing Hands Belarussian Outreach |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Carolinas | $5,000 | Unrestricted | Jena and Bob Gallagher Foundation |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Sun Coast | $5,000 | Entreprenuership | The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation |
| Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters Association of Los Angeles | $5,000 | General Support | David Geffen Foundation |
| Big City Mountaineers | $5,000 | Collaboration Grant With the the Cairn Project | Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Elkhart County | $5,000 | Exempt Purpose of the Organization | Bill Deputy Foundation |
| Women of Tomorrow Mentor and Scholarship Program | $5,000 | Education | DTE Energy Foundation |
| Developing Relationship through Education Athletics and Mentoring | $5,000 | North Omaha Building Brains in Barbershops | The Lozier Foundation |
| Women of Tomorrow Mentor and Scholarship Program | $5,000 | Program Support | The Miami Foundation |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City | $5,000 | Program Support | The Miami Foundation |
| National Cares Mentoring Movement | $5,000 | The Hbcu Rising: A Campus-Public Schools Literacy and Stem Mentoring Initiative | Georgia Power |
| Mid-Ohio Youth Mentoring | $5,000 | General Fund | Richard and Arline Landers Foundation |
| Drink at the Well | $5,000 | Unrestricted | Cape Foundation |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio (BBBS) | $5,000 | Social Services | The Columbus Foundation |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Gallatin County | $5,000 | Social Services | The Columbus Foundation |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio (BBBS) | $5,000 | Social Services | The Columbus Foundation |
Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Adult / child mentoring programs" category for this page is determined by the "O30: Adult, Child Matching Programs" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.