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Smile Train Inc

Smile train, inc.'s primary purpose is to provide people born with clefts the same opportunities in life as those born without clefts.

$53M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$587k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$5.6MInternational$4.6MScience & Tech$208kEducation$109kEmployment$49k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $1,788,851 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $52,628,163 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $50,839,312 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $146k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
$46,701
Median grant
10
States reached
$424M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BE TEAM INTERNATIONAL INC$586,500
LIFEBOX FOUNDATION INC$542,953
GHAYOUR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (FBM LAZER ESTETIK PLASTIK CERRAHI KLINIGI SA$375,550
APROQUEN INC$65,585
AMERICAN CLEFT PALATE CRANIOFACIAL ASSOC$64,852
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL DBA SEATTLE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH$46,701
PLASTIC SURGERY FOUNDATION$40,360
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS$26,750
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DENTAL RESEARCH$17,000
CLEAR GLOBAL INC (TRANSLATORS WITHOUT BORDERS)$15,600
CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC$7,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SPOON Foundation: $20k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
WA
ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
UT
CO
WV
VA
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
GA
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $30M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, $29M to organizations and $322k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$13M · 44% · 214 grants · 44 people

Stated purpose: CLEFT SURGERIES & COMPREHENSIVE CARE · CLEFT TREATMENT TRAINING

South Asia$5.1M · 17% · 38 grants

Stated purpose: CLEFT SURGERIES & COMPREHENSIVE CARE

East Asia and the Pacific$4.0M · 14% · 86 grants · 4 people

Stated purpose: CLEFT SURGERIES & COMPREHENSIVE CARE · CLEFT TREATMENT TRAINING

Middle East and North Africa$2.8M · 9% · 36 grants

Stated purpose: CLEFT SURGERIES & COMPREHENSIVE CARE

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$1.9M · 6% · 11 grants

Stated purpose: CLEFT SURGERIES & COMPREHENSIVE CARE

South America$1.4M · 5% · 32 grants

Stated purpose: CLEFT SURGERIES & COMPREHENSIVE CARE

North America (Canada and Mexico)$1.1M · 4% · 34 grants

Stated purpose: CLEFT SURGERIES & COMPREHENSIVE CARE

Russia and Neighboring States$206k · 1% · 4 grants · 1 person

Stated purpose: CLEFT SURGERIES & COMPREHENSIVE CARE · CLEFT TREATMENT TRAINING

Central America and the Caribbean$193k · 1% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: CLEFT SURGERIES & COMPREHENSIVE CARE

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.9M · 21 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
16

Total granted

$7.9M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+24%

Still filing today

86%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationInternationalPhilanthropyReligionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • LF
    Lifebox Foundation Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $4.4M · revenue +45% · 41% of their budget
  • BT
    BE TEAM INTERNATIONAL INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +5%
  • SC
    Seattle Children's Foundation
    4× · 2021–2024 · $302k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2.3M · revenue +35%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
3
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

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4
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
6
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
Chmc Surgical Foundation Inc

The Foundation provides surgical services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the field of surgery by…

Health
9
Usc Care Medical Group Inc

To promote health by engaging in the practice of medicine for patients of hospitals affiliated with the university of southern california keck school of medicine and elsewhere. to provide medical care to the sick and injured who may come…

Health
10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc and the most unlike its peers is Utah Smiles Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%18%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%16%5–10yr19%74%10–20yr16%4%20–35yr13%2%35–55yr16%4%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/40
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,525

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 40 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
18/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Lifebox Foundation Inc — $4,426,849 · PhilanthropyLifebox Foundation IncVanderbilt University Medical Center — $2,265,110 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Cen…PLASTIC SURGERY FOUNDATION — $269,520 · HealthPLASTIC SURGERY FOUNDATIONBRIGHT FACES INC — $210,500 · HealthBRIGHT FACES INCAPROQUEN INC — $112,152 · Health+10 more — $288,140 · Health+10 moreBE TEAM INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,138,500 · InternationalBE TEAM INTERNA…GLOBAL SMILE FOUNDATION INC — $286,370 · InternationalGLOBAL SMILE FO…GHAYOUR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $509,800 · OtherGHAYOUR CHARI…Seattle Children's Foundation — $302,230 · OtherSeattle Child…AMERICAN CLEFT PALATE - CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION — $111,934 · OtherAMERICAN CLEF…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — $107,899 · OtherREGENTS OF TH…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF…LATICFA INC — $49,000 · Other+6 more — $107,364 · Other+6 moreWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $44,712 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $39,762 · EducationCLEAR GLOBAL INC — $33,960 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $29,867 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $22,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC — $14,426 · Education+1 more — $7,000 · EducationSPOON FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Human ServicesWorldwide Foundation — $15,000 · ReligionCORE INC — $7,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$4,426,849Health$3,145,422International$1,424,870Other$1,288,227Education$222,227Human Services$20,000Religion$15,000Youth Development$7,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLifebox Foundation Inc — $4,426,849 over 5y, 41% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $2,265,110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBE TEAM INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,138,500 over 2y, 18% of budgetGHAYOUR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $509,800 over 2y, 39% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation — $302,230 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL SMILE FOUNDATION INC — $286,370 over 3y, 12% of budgetPLASTIC SURGERY FOUNDATION — $269,520 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetBRIGHT FACES INC — $210,500 over 2y, 34% of budgetAPROQUEN INC — $112,152 over 2y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN CLEFT PALATE - CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION — $111,934 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $92,542 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $44,712 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew Mexico Medical Foundation — $40,352 over 3y, 42% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $39,762 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION — $37,636 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAR GLOBAL INC — $33,960 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $29,867 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS — $26,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DENTAL RESEARCH — $25,973 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC — $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPOON FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUTAH SMILES FOUNDATION — $17,687 over 1y, 10% of budgetGLOBAL INITIATIVE FOR CHILDRENS SURGERY — $15,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetWorldwide Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC — $14,426 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORE INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCarilion Clinic Foundation — $5,990 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Bank of America C…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Train Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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