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Who funds youth mentoring programs? Grant data from tax filings and live federal listings

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From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 303 grants totaling $27.4 million went to youth mentoring programs-related work. The largest funders, the typical grant size, and what is open at the federal level right now, all from public records.

The largest private funders of youth mentoring programs, from their own tax filings

Funder	Grants	Total
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC	3	$12.7 million
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TENNESSEE INC	4	$5.7 million
THE MASS MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC	47	$1.3 million
Catholic Charities Maine	2	$902,399
WEINGART FOUNDATION	3	$500,000
FISHERS YOUTH ASSISTANCE INC	1	$357,204
THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION	1	$326,000
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND	1	$297,000
THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION	2	$252,000
HEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INC	2	$239,674

Across all funders: 303 grants, $27.4 million total, median grant $15,000.

Where the money went

State	Grants	Total
KY	9	$13.0 million
MD	5	$3.4 million
TN	3	$2.4 million
CA	36	$1.7 million
MA	50	$1.3 million
ME	6	$1.0 million

Open federal opportunities addressing youth mentoring programs (nonprofit-eligible)

Matched against the full synopsis text of every posted opportunity, not the listing title alone; restricted to opportunities open to nonprofit applicants. Federal programs rarely use the phrase "youth mentoring"; this table also matches the agency vocabulary: youth development, mentoring, after-school, afterschool.

Number	Title	Agency	Award range	Closes
PAR-24-235	Tribal Undergraduate to Graduate Research Training and Leadership Experiences (T	National Institutes of Health	unspecified to unspecified	01/25/2027
PAR-24-236	Tribal Undergraduate to Graduate Research Training and Leadership Experiences (T	National Institutes of Health	unspecified to unspecified	01/25/2027
PAR-24-128	Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) (T32)	National Institutes of Health	unspecified to unspecified	01/25/2027
RFA-DK-26-310	Diabetes Research Centers (P30 Clinical Trial Optional)	National Institutes of Health	unspecified to $1.0 million	01/27/2027
PAR-27-032	Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigat	National Institutes of Health	unspecified to unspecified	02/06/2029
24-598	Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1	U.S. National Science Foundation	$4.0 million to $20.0 million	02/08/2027
RFA-HL-26-002	NHLBI Outstanding Investigator Award (OIA) (R35 Clinical Trial Optional)	National Institutes of Health	unspecified to unspecified	04/28/2027
PA-27-035	NIH Research Educational Program - Mentoring Activities & Networks (Parent R	National Institutes of Health	unspecified to unspecified	05/05/2029

grants.gov's own loose keyword search returns 213 listings mentioning "youth mentoring programs" anywhere (retrieved 2026-08-03); the table above is our stricter relevance cut.

What these numbers do not say

Private-funder figures come from 990 and 990-PF filings as released by the IRS; filings lag reality by one to two years, and organizations below the e-file thresholds are not represented.
A funder appearing here funded this cause historically. It is not a statement that they are accepting applications.
Cause matching is keyword-based against grant purpose text and recipient names; it undercounts grants described in other words.

Grant Graph is an independent, free index built from public data: IRS Form 990 series e-file releases and the grants.gov API. It is not affiliated with grants.gov or any federal agency. Every figure above is reproducible from the cited public sources.