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Michigan · Public charity

Making Our Children Smile

We are organized exclusively for the charitable purpose including but not limited to raising & distributing funds to benefit children, veterans, as well as the poor, caring for the sick, and supporting charitable, educational, civic & other 501(c)(3)organizations doing good work.

$150k
Granted FY2017
7
Itemized grants FY2017
7
Organizations funded FY2017
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Itemized, FY2017
$94k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2017
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$24,210
States reached, FY2017
1
Total assets, FY2017
$5

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ennis Center for Children Inc$24,21010%
Maggie's Wigs4kids of Michigan Inc$16,5001n/a
Food Bank of Eastern Michigan$15,00010%
The Christ Child Society of Detroit$10,00010%
Arthritis Foundation Inc$10,00010%
VFW National Home$10,00010%
Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan$8,58910%

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About Making Our Children Smile

How much does Making Our Children Smile give?
Making Our Children Smile reported 7 itemized grants totaling $94,299, out of $150,157 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Making Our Children Smile fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Health (28%), Youth Development (26%), Food & Nutrition (25%).
Who are Making Our Children Smile's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Ennis Center for Children Inc ($24k), Maggie's Wigs4kids of Michigan Inc ($17k), Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ($15k).
Where is Making Our Children Smile based?
Making Our Children Smile is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 7 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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