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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $1,788,851, the rows itemized in this filing. The $52,628,163 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $50,839,312 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 · 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
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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 (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 its 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
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.

Which US states its 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

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+8%
+14%

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

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HealthEducationInternationalPhilanthropyReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • 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%
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.

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
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
3
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
4
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
5
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

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

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6
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
7
Ucsf Health Medical Foundation

See schedule othe mission of ucsf health medical foundation is threefold: 1) to establish, operate and maintain medical clinics for the provision of healthcare services in california; 2) to promote health by providing, coordinating,…

Health
8
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
9
Unmc Physicians

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health
10
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
11
Stony Brook Childrens Services 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
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carilion Clinic Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
20/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetWorldwide Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetGLOBAL INITIATIVE FOR CHILDRENS SURGERY: $15,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC: $14,426 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarilion Clinic Foundation: $5,990 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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

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 Train Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smile Train Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
    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.

    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 40 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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