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

From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 50 grants totaling $1.3 million went to youth mentoring programs-related work in Massachusetts. 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 in Massachusetts, from their own tax filings

FunderGrantsTotal
THE MASS MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC46$1.3 million
THE DWYER FOUNDATION1$14,546
GARDINER HOWLAND SHAW FOUNDATION1$10,000
CORNELIUS A WOOD 1969 CHAR TR1$9,000
DEMARCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION1$500

Across all funders: 50 grants, $1.3 million total, median grant $25,331.

Largest recipients in Massachusetts

RecipientGrantsTotal
BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC1$72,154
STRONG WOMEN STRONG GIRLS INC1$41,650
PARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES1$41,650
LUK INC1$41,650
GIRLS INC OF LYNN1$41,650
FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION1$41,650
EVKIDS1$41,650
BIG SISTER ASSOC1$41,650
BBBS OF EASTERN MA1$41,650
RAILROAD ST YOUTH PROJECT1$38,160

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

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in Massachusetts can apply to any of them, so this table is not filtered by state.

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.

NumberTitleAgencyAward rangeCloses
PAR-24-235Tribal Undergraduate to Graduate Research Training and Leadership Experiences (TNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified01/25/2027
PAR-24-236Tribal Undergraduate to Graduate Research Training and Leadership Experiences (TNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified01/25/2027
PAR-24-128Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) (T32)National Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified01/25/2027
RFA-DK-26-310Diabetes Research Centers (P30 Clinical Trial Optional)National Institutes of Healthunspecified to $1.0 million01/27/2027
PAR-27-032Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage InvestigatNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified02/06/2029
24-598Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1U.S. National Science Foundation$4.0 million to $20.0 million02/08/2027
RFA-HL-26-002NHLBI Outstanding Investigator Award (OIA) (R35 Clinical Trial Optional)National Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified04/28/2027
PA-27-035NIH Research Educational Program - Mentoring Activities & Networks (Parent RNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified05/05/2029

grants.gov's own loose keyword search returns 214 listings mentioning "youth mentoring programs" anywhere (retrieved 2026-08-03); the table above is our stricter relevance cut.

What these numbers do not say

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.