Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
FRESH START CAFE
FRESH START CAFE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $35k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $500
- Net assets
- $242k
What Fresh Start Cafe does
Mission
The fresh start mission is to create a place of community outreach with a focus on student-youth providing a place to facilitate blessings in a backpack, student tutoring, parent mentoring, and helping student-youth families in need. This is a locally-based, grass-roots effort to help those most in need within our community. In addtion, fresh start will also facilitate a positive learning and nurturing environment that teaches young people how to run a small business by engaging with local school districts' vocational curriculum and volunteer programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The fresh start mission is to create a place of community outreach with a focus on student-youth providing a place to facilitate blessings in a backpack, student tutoring, parent mentoring, and helping student-youth families in need. This is a locally-based, grass-roots effort to help those most in need within our community. In addtion, fresh start will also facilitate a positive learning and nurturing environment that teaches young people how to run a small business by engaging with local school districts' vocational curriculum and volunteer programs.
$59,893 spent100% of program spendingThe fresh start mission is to create a place of community outreach with a focus on student-youth providing a place to facilitate blessings in a backpack, student tutoring, parent mentoring, and helping student-youth families in need. This is a locally-based, grass-roots effort to help those most in need within our community. In addtion, fresh start will also facilitate a positive learning and nurturing environment that teaches young people how to run a small business by engaging with local school districts' vocational curriculum and volunteer programs.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $59,893.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $168k to $273k (+63%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
144% of FRESH START CAFE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of FRESH START CAFE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
FRESH START CAFE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
FRESH START CAFE is better cushioned than half of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like FRESH START CAFE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRESH START CAFE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRESH START CAFE?
- FRESH START CAFE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRESH START CAFE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500 in grants to FRESH START CAFE.
- Who is the largest funder of FRESH START CAFE?
- VERIZON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRESH START CAFE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing