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Grant recipient EIN 94-3165640

Who funds Be A Mentor Inc?

11 private foundations gave Be A Mentor Inc in Hayward, CA $198,779 across 27 grants, in tax years 2018 to 2025.

Grants listed on funders’ 990-PF returns for tax years 2018 to 2025, read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

Grants received by year

Grants from private foundations by the funder’s tax year. The latest year is in blue; it is not complete until all its returns reach the IRS.

Every foundation grant, by year

27 grants

Each line as the funder listed it on its return, newest year first, then largest.

  1. The Nicholson Family FoundationPetaluma, CA 2025

    General operating expenses. Multi-year grant. Education programs.

    $10,000
  2. Lowell Berry FoundationLafayette, CA 2025

    Foster Youth Mentoring Initiative

    $5,500
  3. Bosch Community FundFarmington Hills, MI 2024

    STEM

    $12,500
  4. The Nicholson Family FoundationPetaluma, CA 2024

    General operating expenses. Social & education programs.

    $5,000
  5. Alaska Airlines FoundationAnchorage, AK 2024

    Be A Mentor offers mentoring services to under-served youth in California. The programs offered by BAM are designed to improve academic performance, reduce risk factors, develop workforce skills, and provide guidance to underserved youth, including youth impacted by substance misuse, youth in foster care, and youth otherwise systems impacted. BAM recruits, trains, and oversees mentors who work with youth to improve academic, social, and career outcomes. BAM's Youth Mentoring Program focuses on creating supportive one-to-one relationships between youth from challenging circumstances and adult volunteers from the community. As a community-based mentoring program, mentors and mentees meet in person and participate in activities out in the community.

    $5,000
  6. Lowell Berry FoundationLafayette, CA 2024

    Foster Youth Mentoring Initiative

    $5,000
  7. Sustainable Grant Making Partners FundTiburon, CA 2023

    Virtual Mentoring - Mentor Recruitment

    $15,000
  8. Bosch Community FundFarmington Hills, MI 2023

    STEM

    $13,620
  9. The James Joseph Ford FoundationLas Vegas, NV 2023

    To strengthen mentors' capacity to help children and youth who come from challenging circumstances to develop the assets they need to create successful lives for themselves.

    $2,500
  10. Amazonsmile FoundationSeattle, WA 2023

    General support

    $24
  11. Ross Stores FoundationDublin, CA 2022

    Youth program

    $20,000
  12. Bosch Community FundFarmington Hills, MI 2022

    STEM

    $14,077
  13. The Nicholson Family FoundationPetaluma, CA 2022

    General operating expenses. Social & education programs.

    $5,000
  14. Alaska Airlines FoundationAnchorage, AK 2022

    Be A Mentor offers mentoring services to under-served youth in the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout California. We are a leader in advancing and strengthening mentoring for at-promise and low-performing youth. Originally founded in 1992, we have managed numerous mentoring projects with cities, counties, and schools, providing direct mentoring services and pairing thousands of youth with caring adult role models. Our programs reduce gang violence, prevent alcohol and drug abuse, and improve academic performance, and have served marginalized youth including foster youth, children with parents in prison and transitional youth. Working with partners, we help to recruit, train, and oversee mentors as they work with youth to improve academic, social, and career outcomes.

    $5,000
  15. Lowell Berry FoundationLafayette, CA 2022

    Foster Youth Mentoring Initiative

    $5,000
  16. The Deville Foundation IncMarietta, GA 2022

    Unrestricted

    $1,000
  17. Amazonsmile FoundationSeattle, WA 2022

    General support

    $27
  18. Ross Stores FoundationDublin, CA 2021

    Youth program

    $20,000
  19. Charis FundNewberg, OR 2021

    Mentoring collaborative project

    $6,000
  20. Lowell Berry FoundationLafayette, CA 2021

    Foster Youth Mentoring Initiative

    $3,000
  21. The Deville Foundation IncMarietta, GA 2021

    Unrestricted

    $2,500
  22. Amazonsmile FoundationSeattle, WA 2021

    General support

    $20
  23. Sustainable Grant Making Partners FundTiburon, CA 2020

    Virtual Tutoring

    $27,000
  24. Amazonsmile FoundationSeattle, WA 2020

    General support

    $11
  25. Lowell Berry FoundationLafayette, CA 2019

    Foster Youth Mentoring Initiative

    $3,000
  26. Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable FoundationBerkeley, CA 2018

    Other programs

    $10,000
  27. Lowell Berry FoundationLafayette, CA 2018

    Foster Youth Mentoring Initiative

    $3,000

About this match

Funders write a recipient’s name and address, not its EIN. We matched these grants to EIN 94-3165640 by name and ZIP code, or by name, city and State against the IRS list of exempt organizations and our list of filers. Grants we could not tie to one organization are not counted here.