The National Mentoring Partnership Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Product and program developmentone of mentor's core objectives is to identify, promote, and drive the implementation of evidence-based practices combined with community wisdom to increase the quality of mentoring relationships for young people. Mentor pursues this work by ensuring that leading-edge research, evidence from the field, community insights, and effective training converge to increase, sustain, and evaluate the quality of mentoring relationships for young people. Through this work, mentor also partners with key thought leaders in the youth-services field to build the evidence base and support for mentoring as a systemic solution for improved youth outcomes in america. A few examples of 2025 accomplishments in this work include that mentor: 1) led the national mentoring resource center to provide more than 11,000 hours of technical assistance to mentoring programs serving young people across the country; 2) launched a partnership with the u.s. Soccer foundation to develop resources and trainings to support youth sport and recreation volunteers, staff, and leaders across the country in adopting mentoring practices; 3) conducted a first-of-its-kind national survey focused on the experiences and career paths of mentoring professionals, publishing and disseminating key findings and recommendations in movement makers: a report on the state of the youth mentoring workforce; and 4) published the mentoring program's guide to youth participatory action research: integrating meaningful research opportunities into mentoring services, launched a companion online resource hub, and hosted a four-part virtual training series.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 85.3%; rating input score 85
• Fundraising efficiency: $7.11 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Pass
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
  • Written employment contract: Pass
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 34th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -32.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 18.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings