Mentee

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
824458239
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
7086471542
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Foundations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$79,537
Expenses
$88,932
Assets
$61,841
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Letitia Zwickert (Chief Executive Officer)
  • Mohammad Salem (President)

People named in this filing

  • Letitia Zwickert (Chief Executive Officer)
  • Mohammad Salem (President)
  • Sumi Somaskanda (Secretary)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide a global mentor network, education, and support. MENTEE offers people disadvantaged by our local and global systems opportunities to help them overcome their challenges. Through a vast and responsive online global mentor network, we offer guidance, education, professional development, personal enrichment & support, language training, and more. Our various programs respond to our community's needs. Combined our ecosystem offers lifelong support to help our mentees reach their full potential.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Global Mentor Hub operates year-round, connecting over 3,000 individuals, including trained global mentors and mentees, to provide support in areas such as higher education, professional development, and personal growth through an online platform.

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 82% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 47
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 48.9%; rating input score 49
  • Program expense ratio: 43.7%; rating input score 44

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -11.8%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.5%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 49.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -31.1% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -14.1% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 48.9% of revenue deployed · 43.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $39K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 44/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.