Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SMART FUTURES
SMART FUTURES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $766,619 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($500,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $767k
- Net assets
- $259k
What Smart Futures does
Mission
Smart Futures mission is to provide pennsylvania's educators with technology solutions that help kids to get real about who they are, where they are going and how to get there.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Toolkit unlimited - an online career planning and portfolio platform for k-12 students in pennsylvania. Smart Futures has engaged with the pennsylvania department of education to guide the development of smartfutures.org. Smartfutures.org is an accessible web-based career planning and portfolio platform that enables schools to seamlessly deliver the cew standards in a way that is engaging for students and generates the career readiness indicators required by pde.to pennsylvania school districts and charter schools, smartfutures.org is a drop-in future ready career plan and portfolio solution that provides a k-12 curriculum aligned to all 23 elements across the four strands of the career education and work standards. Smartfutures.org supports school districts and charter schools with artifact creation, data collection, student badging, and compliance monitoring and reporting. The platform is currently being used by districts and charter schools across pennsylvania through an affordable annual subscription/donation. Smart Futures continues to operate pa ementoring, an online career mentoring program, and hopes to build the capacity of the program so its ementor volunteers can serve…
$1,659,963 spent$1,850,083 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,659,963.
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 2020 to 2021, from $123k to $580k (+371%).
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.
0% of SMART FUTURES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
David J Mosey
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $40k → $22k.
From the IRS filings of SMART FUTURES’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 FUTURES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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: 2017 63% · 2018 50% · 2019 48% · 2020 54% · 2021 85% · 2022 94% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of SMART FUTURES's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
SMART FUTURES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SMART FUTURES
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
42%
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 FUTURES: 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 FUTURES?
- SMART FUTURES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $766,619 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($500,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SMART FUTURES have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $766,619 in grants to SMART FUTURES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SMART FUTURES?
- RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SMART FUTURES 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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