California · Public charity
Smart & Final Charitable Foundation
The Smart & Final Charitable Foundation is committed to giving back, improving quality of life, and nourishing the communities we serve. We focus our giving on Health & Wellness, Education, Hunger Relief, Team Sports & Youth Development, and Disaster Relief.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 33
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $520k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $67,449
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 40
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Smart & Final Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 32 | $511k | 66% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $226k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $166k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $172k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $116k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $248k | 53% |
| FY2018 | 40 | $639k | 98% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $271k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Hope | $425,198 | 8 | 0% |
| The Scga Foundation | $130,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Olive Crest | $120,310 | 6 | 0% |
| California Creativity Association | $89,433 | 1 | n/a |
| Beckman High School Education Fund | $77,000 | 1 | n/a |
| San Joaquin County Child Abuse Prevention Council | $77,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $74,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Scholastic Book Fairs | $73,195 | 3 | n/a |
| Tustin Public Schools Foundation | $71,549 | 5 | 1% |
| Caterinas Club | $49,545 | 5 | 1% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Smart & Final Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Sempra Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Food Forward Inc · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation · Henry L Guenther Foundation · In-N-Out Burgers Foundation · Shelter Partnership Inc · The Rose Hills Foundation
How this is measured
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About Smart & Final Charitable Foundation
- How much does Smart & Final Charitable Foundation give?
- Smart & Final Charitable Foundation reported 33 itemized grants totaling $519,995, out of $1,410,915 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 40 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Smart & Final Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (30%), Food & Nutrition (22%), Education (12%).
- Who are Smart & Final Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: City of Hope ($425k), The Scga Foundation ($130k), Olive Crest ($120k).
- Does Smart & Final Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Smart & Final Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sempra Foundation, Orange County Community Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.
- Where is Smart & Final Charitable Foundation based?
- Smart & Final Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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