Mentor Nebraska

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
470840952
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Omaha, NE, USA
Phone
4027154176
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$916,581
Expenses
$1,123,862
Assets
$275,842
Liabilities
$102,092

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KARI BRASHEAR (PAST PRESIDENT)
  • AMANDA LEVOS (PRESIDENT)
  • JUSTIN FRAUENDORFER (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • MELISSA MAYO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • MELISSA MAYO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $137,195 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Mentor Nebraska is a backbone organization that seeks to increase the number and quality of mentoring opportunities available for youth.

What it reported doing in 2024

Mentor Nebraska has consistently sought to bring innovation to the mentoring sector by helping to establish "new models" of mentoring that reach audiences in unique and supportive ways. We introduced a new evidenced-based mentoring model, called success mentors, and the model is being used to support nearly 200 chronically absent youth in omaha public schools, millard public schools, eight years ago, we were the first in the country to initiate another new mentoring model, called youth initiated mentoring (yim) to support juvenile justice youth. National resesarchers and evaluators have called our model "game changing" for supporting this audience. This program is funded with public dollars to prevent youth from recidivating with the justice system.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 13
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 83.3%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 68%; rating input score 68
  • Fundraising efficiency: $8.98 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -22.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12.2%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 83.3% of revenue deployed · 68% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $764K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $137K · 15 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.