Tennessee · 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…
- $3.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 42
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $3.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $43,550
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $505,162
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 38
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $40M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Smile 180 Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 41 | $3.3M | 5% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $3.0M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $4.4M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $3.1M | 6% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $3.3M | 24% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $2.4M | 14% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $3.8M | 18% |
| FY2017 | 32 | $2.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Tennessee Foundation Inc | $3,056,497 | 8 | 1% |
| Church Health Center of Memphis Inc | $3,040,906 | 8 | 2% |
| Interfaith Dental Clinic of Nashville | $2,995,915 | 8 | 8% |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | $1,760,112 | 8 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $1,638,488 | 7 | 0% |
| United Neighborhood Health Services Inc | $1,352,650 | 8 | 2% |
| Erlanger Foundation | $1,290,160 | 8 | 7% |
| Keystone Dental Care Inc | $851,444 | 8 | 17% |
| Meharry Medical College | $785,078 | 7 | 0% |
| Karis Community Health | $772,720 | 8 | 18% |
Show all 67 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($202k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Smile 180 Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
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About Smile 180 Foundation
- How much does Smile 180 Foundation give?
- Smile 180 Foundation reported 42 itemized grants totaling $3,301,477, out of $3,483,206 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Smile 180 Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (84%), Education (11%), Housing & Shelter (2%).
- Who are Smile 180 Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The University of Tennessee Foundation Inc ($3.1M), Church Health Center of Memphis Inc ($3.0M), Interfaith Dental Clinic of Nashville ($3.0M).
- Does Smile 180 Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Smile 180 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Southern Health Plan Inc, Tennessee Charitable Care Network, Delta Dental of Tennessee Inc.
- Where is Smile 180 Foundation based?
- Smile 180 Foundation is based in TN.
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