Home Office minister Fiona Mactaggart announced that 31 groups across England would benefit.
The cash will be used to improve services by, for example, upgrading IT equipment, carrying out renovations or improving security at premises.
Mactaggart said: "Having a personal mentor can give socially excluded people the skills and determination to change their lives."
One beneficiary, Sova, has about 1,500 mentors at schemes around the country for young offenders, young people in care, care-leavers, young unemployed and young people with education problems or who are disaffected with school.
It was given 35,000 for office equipment and to buy computers for young people to use at a centre in Lincoln.
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