· Public charity
Smile 180 Foundation
Our mission is to provide supporting, sponsoring, and funding programs and initiatives that promote oral healthcare and educational programs to clincs and hospitals that extend the benefits of dentistry to the indigent and other groups found to be dentally deprived or underserved, and also provides educational research programs that…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 42 grants below total $3,301,477 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,483,206 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $181,729 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k24 grants · $662k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHURCH HEALTH CENTER | $505,162 |
| CHRIST COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES | $386,500 |
| INTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC | $332,800 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION | $261,200 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES | $145,850 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $126,237 |
| KEYSTONE DENTAL | $110,400 |
| FRIENDS IN NEED HEALTH CENTER INC | $96,150 |
| EAST TENNESSEE PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION | $96,000 |
| KARIS DENTAL CLINIC | $81,950 |
| HEALING HANDS HEALTH CENTER | $78,900 |
| ADVENTURE SCIENCE CENTER | $75,000 |
| SMILES INC | $68,200 |
| INTERFAITH HEALTH CLINIC | $67,500 |
| SERVOLUTION HEALTH SERVICES | $55,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $397k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
52 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +178%
- CHCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +54%
- IDINTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +191%
Funded once
- WTWEST TENNESSEE HEALTHCARE INCone grant, 2017 · $64k
American Diabetes Associationone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -4%- BHBALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated2× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +97%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.
To provide high quality dental work at a low cost to low income households.
To provide high-quality patient-centered services that support healthy living among the uninsured and the under-served families in the greater williamson county.
To provide medical and dental care to under and uninsured patients
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Healthcaretn is a non-profit, member driven organization committed to improving the quality and cost of healthcare in tennessee and the surrounding region. healthcaretn believes only cooperative relationships between employers, health…
To provide accessible affordable, holistic healthcare to patients across the lifespan with a special focus on vulnerable populations, within a financially sustainable delivery model. further, uchs supports health professions education,…
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Motivated by the love and compassion of christ and in keeping with our baptist heritage, bchs provides quality primary healthcare and behavioral healthcare to individuals in medically underserved communities.
To provide quality dental care and eye examinations at no cost to uninsured residents of east tennessee and southwest virginia
To be a successful physician led, professionally managed medical practice that benefits our patients and our community, while supporting the UT Health Science Center's mission through clinical excellence, financial responsibility and a…
Our mission is to understand and serve the health and wellness needs of the medically underserved in our community by providing quality, compassionate, personal care in a faith-based environment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Tn Healthcare Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 70 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ERLANGER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE DENTAL CARE INC ↗
- Who funds MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KARIS COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Christ Community Health Services Inc ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HEALTH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Friends in Need Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON RURAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Free Medical Clinic of America ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CLINIC OF SHELBYVILLE AND BEDFORD COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SMILES INC ↗
- Who funds Reelfoot Rural Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds SERVOLUTION HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Helping Hands of Middle & West Tennessee ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS DENTAL SOCIETY CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds FIRST LOVE MINISTRIES OF MORRISTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE DENTAL ASSOCIATION DBA MEMPHIS DENTAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOPE SMILES ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN HOPE GOOD SHEPHERD CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BEERSHEBA SPRINGS MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds NISWONGER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Tennessee Dental Wellness Fndn Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Southern Health Plan Inc · Tennessee Charitable Care Network · Delta Dental of Tennessee Inc · Tennessee Health Foundation Inc · Tennessee Rural Health Recruitment & Retention Center Inc · East Tennessee Foundation · Sostento Inc · Food City Charitable Foundation · Direct Relief · Americares Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Smile 180 Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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