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Operation Smile Inc

Operation smile, inc. (operation smile or osi) is a 501c(3) not-for-profit voluntary health and welfare organization whose purpose includes providing life-changing surgery for people born with cleft lip and cleft palate and other surgical conditions. The organization provides medical education and supports health system strengthening…

$10M
Granted FY2021
1
Itemized grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$11k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$11,398
Largest grant, FY2021
$11,398
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$115M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations Operation Smile Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21
HealthPhilanthropy
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20211$11k0%
FY20201$228k0%
FY20192$344k50%
FY20182$179k50%
FY20171$157kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Health$921k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$845,62250%
Children's Surgical Associates Ltd$65,00010%
Charitable Fund of the Rotary Club of Koreatown$10,000113%

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About Operation Smile Inc

How much does Operation Smile Inc give?
Operation Smile Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $11,398, out of $10,112,252 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Operation Smile Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Health (100%).
Who are Operation Smile Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Children's Hospital Los Angeles ($846k), Children's Surgical Associates Ltd ($65k), Charitable Fund of the Rotary Club of Koreatown ($10k).
Does Operation Smile Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Operation Smile Inc based?
Operation Smile Inc is based in VA.

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 3 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $21M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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