California · Nonprofit
Smart & Final Charitable Foundation
Smart & Final Charitable Foundation (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,999 to it, the largest being CACIQUE FOUNDATION ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Smart & Final Charitable Foundation does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization made grants to community organizations, such as food banks, youth sports organizations, programs for at-risk youth, health and nutrition programs, educational programs and institutions, community development activities, emergency and disaster relief, and other organizations that are tax exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
$1,554,510 spentof which $1,410,915 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,554,510.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2023 to 2024, from $2.3M to $4.7M (+103%).
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 Smart & Final Charitable Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (69% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Suzanne Mullins
President & Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $5.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Smart & Final Charitable Foundation’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
Smart & Final Charitable Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Smart & Final Charitable Foundation draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5 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
Smart & Final Charitable Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Smart & Final Charitable Foundation
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Smart & Final Charitable Foundation: 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 Smart & Final Charitable Foundation?
- Smart & Final Charitable Foundation (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,999 to it, the largest being CACIQUE FOUNDATION ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Smart & Final Charitable Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $25,999 in grants to Smart & Final Charitable Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Smart & Final Charitable Foundation?
- CACIQUE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Smart & Final Charitable Foundation 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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