Mentor Me Ministries

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
223792160
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Irvine, CA, USA
Phone
9493940150
Rating
96
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Adult, Child Matching Programs
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$140,701
Expenses
$139,505
Assets
$17,540

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Robert Drake (President & CEO)

People named in this filing

  • Robert Drake (President & CEO)
  • Jana Halverson (Secretary)
  • Hamilton Charlie (Director)

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

Operate a christian ministry and provide mentors to over 50 fatherless children, through speaking engagements and the training of christian men through their churches, to start their own mentor programs for fatherless children. These new church mentor programs immediately provide christian father figures to fatherless

What it reported doing in 2025

Operate a christian ministry and provide mentors to over 50 fatherless children.Also operatins a thrift store for the benefit of the organization and provides workexperience and job training for the mentored children. Summer camps provide a safe environment.

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 100% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 99.1%; rating input score 99
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: 0.9%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 99.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $140K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.