Small Business Mentorship Initiative Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 320677383
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Maple Shade, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 8565333041
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Small Business Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,109
- Expenses
- $74,257
- Assets
- $58,307
- Liabilities
- $60
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JON KOZESKY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- ROGER BRAUNFELD (BOARD MEMBER)
- PHILIP PANZARELLA (VICE CHAIRMAN)
- MARK LENSKI (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
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.
What it reported doing in 2025
Sbmi helps underserved entrepreneurs achieve success and independence by providing: mentorship with seasoned business professionals, business education and avenues to access capital.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.8%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -34.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -15.9% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.