Grants for adult / child mentoring programs

Name: Top 25 grants made to adult / child mentoring and big brother and sister programs
Creator: Cause IQ
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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

Out of all grants made to adult / child mentoring programs, 71% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 10% of the dollar-value of grants to mentoring programs. Foundations funding mentoring programs also made grants to multiservice human service organizations, food banks, youth development programs, emergency assistance programs, and boys and girls clubs.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	392
Medium	77
Large	76

Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type	Number of grantmakers
Community	34
Private	399
Corporate	43
Other	70

Grants made

Grants made to mentoring programs	Number of grantmakers
1	487
2-3	38
4-10	14
11+	7

Top 10 foundations supporting adult / child mentoring and big brother and sister programs

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to mentoring programs	Number of grants made to mentoring programs	Median grant size
JP Morgan Chase Foundation	NY	National	0.0%	24	$250
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT)	TN	Metro	0.1%	19	$250
Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines	IA	State	0.0%	14	$500
Alliant Energy Foundation	WI	State	0.7%	12	$1,297
Shell Oil Company Foundation	TX	National	0.1%	11	$250
Carmax Foundation	VA	National	0.0%	11	$250
Westrock Foundation	GA	National	0.0%	11	$67
Baird Foundation	WI	National	0.2%	10	$250
Charity Partners Foundation	MA	National	0.6%	10	$7
Salesforce Com Foundation	CA	National	0.0%	10	$100

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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
<$10k	767
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	0

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$480
$100k-$500k	$1,500
$500k-$1M	$2,000
$1M-$5M	$1,500
>$5M	$1,500

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
Florida	70
California	59
Wisconsin	57
Texas	43
Other	538

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
New York City	40
Boston	35
Tampa	26
San Francisco	23
Other	583

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

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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.