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SMART FOOD MARKET INC DBA SMART FOOD FOUNDATION

SMART FOOD MARKET INC DBA SMART FOOD FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$264k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$5k
Net assets
$104k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Smart Food Market Inc Dba Smart Food Foundation does

Mission

Smart Food Foundation's mission is to end the interconnected epidemic of hunger, obesity and diabetes rampant in low income communities in America by providing the healthiest food and the tools to turn it into great tasting, healthy meals.

As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.

Program

  1. Food distribution - the smart food foundation provides whole grains, dried beans, healthy oil, seasonal fruits and vegetables, and cooking spices, along with cooking and nutrition education, to help recipients turn these natural foods into healthy and delicious meals. In 2024, the foundation provided 158 pallets of dry food and 63 cases of spices to three schools directly and through partnering with south bay community services in low income and food insecure communities in the san diego area.

    $363,169 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($246k) Expenses 100 ($246k) Net assets 100 ($117k)2018 Revenue 85 ($210k) Expenses 104 ($256k) Net assets 60 ($71k)2019 Revenue 110 ($270k) Expenses 131 ($322k) Net assets 15 ($18k)2020 Revenue 155 ($382k) Expenses 101 ($249k) Net assets 129 ($151k)2021 Revenue 118 ($291k) Expenses 121 ($296k) Net assets 124 ($145k)2022 Revenue 111 ($273k) Expenses 80 ($197k) Net assets 189 ($221k)2023 Revenue 157 ($385k) Expenses 164 ($402k) Net assets 174 ($204k)2024 Revenue 107 ($264k) Expenses 148 ($364k) Net assets 88 ($104k)
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Revenue (107)Expenses (148)Net assets (88)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $18k to $151k (+732%).

$117k
$71k
$18k
$151k
$145k
$221k
$204k
$104k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of SMART FOOD MARKET INC DBA SMART FOOD FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,373 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$43
’17
−$46k
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
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’24
0.5
months of
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.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
total
funders
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $2.3M from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Dennis and Pamela Mudd Charitable Foundation C/O Baker Tilly US LLP). These are real filings, and they are not money SMART FOOD MARKET INC DBA SMART FOOD FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of SMART FOOD MARKET INC DBA SMART FOOD 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.

Where its funders are

100% of SMART FOOD MARKET INC DBA SMART FOOD FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SMART FOOD MARKET INC DBA SMART FOOD FOUNDATION receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5k to it.

Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SMART FOOD MARKET INC DBA SMART FOOD FOUNDATION?
SMART FOOD MARKET INC DBA SMART FOOD FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SMART FOOD MARKET INC DBA SMART FOOD FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to SMART FOOD MARKET INC DBA SMART FOOD FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of SMART FOOD MARKET INC DBA SMART FOOD FOUNDATION?
JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SMART FOOD MARKET INC DBA SMART FOOD 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 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