Mega Mentors
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371700539
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Midlothian, VA, USA
- Phone
- 8046398774
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adult, Child Matching Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $73,824
- Expenses
- $94,545
- Assets
- $9,956
- Liabilities
- $3,829
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FINIS COOK (PRESIDENT)
- DEBORAH HILLMAN (VICE PRESIDENT OF ADMINIST)
- MARY GORDON (VICE PRESIDENT OF PROGRAMM)
- C DALESA MACK-GRISBY (VICE PRESIDENT OF RECRUITMENT & TRA)
People named in this filing
- FINIS COOK (PRESIDENT)
- DEBORAH HILLMAN (VICE PRESIDENT OF ADMINIST)
- MARY GORDON (VICE PRESIDENT OF PROGRAMM)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of this organization is to teach life skills, provide meaningful learning experiences and build leadership skills in at-risk students in chesterfield county public schools through mentoring, life skills training, experiential field trips and recognition.
What it reported doing in 2024
Mentoring involves our mentorship programs for grades 6-8 where emphasis is placed on character development and life skills, and grades 9-12 career/college exposure and preparation. Also, reading programs for grades 3-5 focus on foundational literacy, and combine reading and relationships to give students a solid basis from which to grow.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.2%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 66.5%; rating input score 67
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -28.1%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.1% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.2% of revenue deployed · 66.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.