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.

Smile 180 Foundation

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· 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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$505k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$22MEducation$2.8MHousing & Shelter$482kArts & Culture$382kHuman Services$273kScience & Tech$75kCommunity Improvement$34kReligion$25kOther$0

02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 42 grants below total $3,301,477, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,483,206 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $181,729 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k24 grants · $662k
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.2M
$250k+4 grants · $1.5M

$43,550

Median grant

States reached

$40M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$25M · 52 repeat orgs$348k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$25M

$253k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+45%

Still filing today

88%

86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

TU
THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +178%
CH
CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +54%
ID
INTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +191%

Funded once

WT
WEST TENNESSEE HEALTHCARE INC
one grant, 2017 · $64k
American Diabetes Association
one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -4%
BH
BALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
2× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +97%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

HealthFirst Bluegrass Inc

Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.

Health

Revive Dental Tennessee

To provide high quality dental work at a low cost to low income households.

Health

Hill Country Medical Ministriesinc

To provide high-quality patient-centered services that support healthy living among the uninsured and the under-served families in the greater williamson county.

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Henderson County Rural Health Center Inc

To provide medical and dental care to under and uninsured patients

Health

Methodist Medical Center

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.

Health

Healthcaretn

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…

Health

University Community Health Service

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,…

Health

Cumberland Medical Center

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.

Health

Baptist Community Health Services Inc

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.

Health

Appalachian Miles for Smiles

To provide quality dental care and eye examinations at no cost to uninsured residents of east tennessee and southwest virginia

Health

Ut Medical Group Inc

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…

Health

Volunteers in Medicine Chattanooga Inc

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

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Tn Healthcare Foundation Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

66/67

Grantees still filing

49/67

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$15,105,305Other$5,242,757Education$3,976,575Housing & Shelter$501,888Arts & Culture$421,500Human Services$396,881Religion$271,725

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Southern Health Plan IncTN34.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Smile 180 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smile 180 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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