The Collective Generational Mentoring Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
471491105
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Houston, TX, USA
Phone
2813527561
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$42,193
Expenses
$20,496
Assets
$82,600

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Eric R Lyons (President)
  • Errol D Allen II (Vice President)
  • Christopher J Shuler (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Eric R Lyons (President)
  • Errol D Allen II (Vice President)
  • Christopher J Shuler (Vice President)

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

The Collective Generational Mentoring Foundation TCGMF is a 501c3 non-profit organization which aims to increase and scale the effectiveness of mentoring relationships which prepare youth and young adults in the areas of college preparation, career exposure, professional development and leadership. The organization was created to address the needs of individuals in a mentoring relationship to improve the positive outcomes associated with productive mentoring relationships. The foundation's board of directors, advocates and partners unite with the shared desire of multi-generations to improve the condition of African-American males by providing educational and development initiatives and scholarships.

What it reported doing in 2025

The College Success Scholarship Program provides scholarships to junior and senior college students. It is a merit-based eassay competition focused on highlighting mentoring efforts.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 64% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 64
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 72
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 45.8%; rating input score 46
  • Program expense ratio: 94.2%; rating input score 94

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 51.4%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.03; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 45.8% of revenue deployed · 94.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $19K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.