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START OFF SMART INC

START OFF SMART INC (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $331,884 to it, the largest being OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($314,824). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$815k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$332k
Net assets
$149k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Start Off Smart Inc does

Mission

To effectively and efficiently guide individuals, children and families towards independence and safety and to improve the quality of life for the residents living and playing in the community using strong community collaboration.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization works in conjunction with the city of homestead, florida police department and integrates law enforcement and human services personnel to provide community-based services in the southern part of miami-dade county, homestead, and florida city, florida. The organization and the homestead police department were the first in the state of florida to provide law enforcement and social services interventions, utilizing a collaborative response.

    $684,980 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $684,980.

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 ($600k) Expenses 100 ($575k) Net assets 100 ($72k)2018 Revenue 95 ($573k) Expenses 107 ($613k) Net assets 45 ($32k)2019 Revenue 128 ($768k) Expenses 131 ($753k) Net assets 138 ($100k)2020 Revenue 126 ($755k) Expenses 123 ($706k) Net assets 206 ($148k)2021 Revenue 131 ($789k) Expenses 138 ($793k) Net assets 201 ($145k)2022 Revenue 122 ($735k) Expenses 128 ($733k) Net assets 203 ($146k)2023 Revenue 138 ($831k) Expenses 145 ($831k) Net assets 203 ($146k)2024 Revenue 150 ($899k) Expenses 154 ($883k) Net assets 225 ($162k)2025 Revenue 136 ($815k) Expenses 144 ($829k) Net assets 206 ($149k)
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Revenue (136)Expenses (144)Net assets (206)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 2018 to 2019, from $50k to $122k (+144%).

$87k
$50k
$122k
$172k
$153k
$158k
$183k
$202k
$181k
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 94% · 2020 88% · 2021 94% · 2022 92% · 2023 91% · 2024 88% · 2025 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of START OFF SMART INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,778 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$26k
’17
−$40k
’18
$15k
’19
$48k
’20
−$4k
’21
$1k
’22
$93
’23
$16k
’24
−$14k
’25
1.2
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.

Board chair

Harold Marrero

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed44101087796
Joined·+0+8+0+0+2+0+2+0
No longer listed·02023003
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $47k → $7k.

Funder
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'22
'23
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'25*
total
funders
1
2
1
2
2
1
2
1
1

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 START OFF SMART 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

START OFF SMART INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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

97% 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 START OFF SMART INC.

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 81% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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

95% of START OFF SMART INC'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 $17k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 2 states.

NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $315k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

START OFF SMART INC's revenue grew 36% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like START OFF SMART INC

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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 14%Fundraising 3%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for START OFF SMART INC: 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 START OFF SMART INC?
START OFF SMART INC (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $331,884 to it, the largest being OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($314,824). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does START OFF SMART INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $331,884 in grants to START OFF SMART INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of START OFF SMART INC?
OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $314,824 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like START OFF SMART INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing