Utah · Public charity
Smiles for Life Foundation
To support medical & dental treatment, prevention of childhood diseases and promote health education for poor children in the inner cities of this nation.
- $642k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $507k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,581
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $160,241
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $722k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Smiles for Life Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $507k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $507k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $526k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $115k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $209k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $349k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $647k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $705k | 44% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The O Wayne and Glenda Sue Mortenson Charitable Foundation Inc | $1,219,928 | 7 | 56% |
| Esperanza International | $482,681 | 5 | n/a |
| Smiles for Hope Foundation | $361,809 | 3 | 100% |
| The Dustin J Wells Foundation | $235,184 | 4 | 100% |
| Esperanza International Foundation | $206,456 | 3 | 7% |
| Eagle U Inc | $153,209 | 4 | 22% |
| Koltael Inc | $108,618 | 2 | 19% |
| Boxes of Basics | $95,177 | 2 | 7% |
| Center for Humanitarian Outreach and Intercultural Exchange | $92,485 | 3 | 1% |
| University of Utah | $87,001 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 92 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Smiles for Life Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 73 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: The Gap Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · International Paper Company Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Equitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Global Impact
How this is measured
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About Smiles for Life Foundation
- How much does Smiles for Life Foundation give?
- Smiles for Life Foundation reported 15 itemized grants totaling $506,919, out of $642,447 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Smiles for Life Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (61%), International (27%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are Smiles for Life Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The O Wayne and Glenda Sue Mortenson Charitable Foundation Inc ($1.2M), Esperanza International ($483k), Smiles for Hope Foundation ($362k).
- Does Smiles for Life Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Smiles for Life Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Gap Foundation, Enterprise Holdings Foundation, Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc.
- Where is Smiles for Life Foundation based?
- Smiles for Life Foundation is based in UT.
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