California · Nonprofit
SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART)
SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART) (California) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,994,091 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,271,540). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 75
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Schools Mentoring and Resources Team Inc (Smart) does
Mission
Schools, mentoring and resource team, inc. Provides targeted academic and developmental support to help students successfully transition to higher education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Middle school achievement program (map):schools, mentoring and resource team,inc.s 32week after school program equips scholars with the skills to succeed in school and in life through tutoring, mentoring, and a curriculum designed to bolster them academically, socially, and emotionally. Lesson plans address issues related to identity exploration, academic skills, social emotional learning and selfcare, high school and college prep, career exposure, social justice and leadership. Through the middle school achievement program: 100% of scholars received social, emotional and academic support; 100% of eight grade scholars received high school enrollment support and graduated from middle school.grades served 6th through 8th.
$952,951 spent$12,169 earned by the program34% of program spendingCollege achievement program (cap):college achievement program: the college achievement program advances schools, mentoring and resource team,inc. Scholars through high school graduation and towards a college education. Weekly programming supports our scholars through college and career exploration and assists with the college and financial aid application processes, while emphasizing community engagement and selfadvocacy. Since 2019, schools, mentoring and resources team,inc. Has expanded student services to include comprehensive college persistence support, including college and financial aid advising, college success support, and career and graduate school readiness.
$1,033,616 spent37% of program spendingRecruitment and school enrollment:schools, mentoring and resources team,inc. Identifies curious and motivated 4th grade students who have the drive to learn, but face barriers to opportunity. Students accepted into the program come from low income households and will be the first generation in their family to graduate from college. Once acceptedinto the program, schools, mentoring and resources team,inc. Guides our families through the middle school and high school enrollment processes.
$304,177 spent11% of program spendingSummer academic enrichment program:schools, mentoring and resource team,inc.'s summer academic enrichment program serves rising 5th and 6th grade students to prevent and reduce instances of summer learning loss, while providing enriching activities to develop and strengthen the positive bonds of youth to their peers and communities. The programs academic curriculum is centered around literacy and math curricula, and offers enrichment courses in areas such as science, media, dance, coding, sports and more. Furthermore, each friday scholars participate in stembased field trips designed to expose them to the sciences outside of the classroom environment.
$531,911 spent19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,822,655.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $4.5M to $7.7M (+72%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART)’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Sandy Zweifach
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $491k → $1.4M.
25 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART)’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 funders by total. 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.
How concentrated its funding is
SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART) has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
77% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 41% · 2019 30% · 2020 27% · 2021 25% · 2022 42% · 2023 13% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
49% of SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
71% of SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART)'s grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.5M that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART)'s revenue grew 66% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART)
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART)?
- SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART) (California) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,994,091 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,271,540). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART) have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $11,994,091 in grants to SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART), 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART)?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,271,540 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART) find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 75 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