New Jersey · Nonprofit
SMALL BUSINESS MENTORSHIP INITIATIVE INC
SMALL BUSINESS MENTORSHIP INITIATIVE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,000 to it, the largest being BEATTY HELEN D GROOME UW ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $64k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $65k
- Net assets
- $58k
What Small Business Mentorship Initiative Inc does
Mission
At smbi, our mission transcends the ordinary. We are more than a mentorship program; we are an ecosystem dedicated to igniting the entrepreneurial spirit, building businesses, and uplifting communities. In a world teeming with dynamic challenges and boundless possibilities, smbi stands as the vanguard, providing the guidance and support needed for small businesses within underserved communities to navigate the complexities of the entrepreneurial landscape.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Sbmi helps underserved entrepreneurs achieve success and independence by providing: mentorship with seasoned business professionals, business education and avenues to access capital.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $68k to $58k (−15%).
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.
100% of SMALL BUSINESS MENTORSHIP INITIATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Jon Kozesky
Executive director
Board chair
Harold Levenson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 SMALL BUSINESS MENTORSHIP INITIATIVE INC’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.
How concentrated its funding is
SMALL BUSINESS MENTORSHIP INITIATIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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.
Where its funders are
SMALL BUSINESS MENTORSHIP INITIATIVE INC draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SMALL BUSINESS MENTORSHIP INITIATIVE INC's revenue fell 29% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,647 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SMALL BUSINESS MENTORSHIP INITIATIVE INC?
- SMALL BUSINESS MENTORSHIP INITIATIVE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,000 to it, the largest being BEATTY HELEN D GROOME UW ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SMALL BUSINESS MENTORSHIP INITIATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $65,000 in grants to SMALL BUSINESS MENTORSHIP INITIATIVE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SMALL BUSINESS MENTORSHIP INITIATIVE INC?
- BEATTY HELEN D GROOME UW is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SMALL BUSINESS MENTORSHIP INITIATIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing