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Smiling Eyes Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$500
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$500
Largest grant, FY2021
$500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 11
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$998
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations Smiling Eyes Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21
Civil RightsHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20211$500100%
FY20201$5k100%
FY20184$8k75%
FY201711$27kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Civil Rights$15kCrime & Legal$8kHealth$8kArts & Culture$3kEnvironment$3kEducation$930Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
NY
PA
CA
MD
DC
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Smiling Eyes Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaldef - Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOficina Legal del Pueblo Unido Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPro Publica Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRefugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFree to Breathe: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Prader-Willi Research Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBucks County World Language Academy: $930 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDown Syndrome Foundation: $500 over 1y, 2.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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About Smiling Eyes Foundation

How much does Smiling Eyes Foundation give?
Smiling Eyes Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $500 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Smiling Eyes Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Civil Rights (37%), Crime & Legal (20%), Health (19%).
Who are Smiling Eyes Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Equal Justice Initiative ($5k), Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($4k), Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc ($3k).
Does Smiling Eyes Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Smiling Eyes Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Smiling Eyes Foundation based?
Smiling Eyes Foundation is based in PA.

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 16 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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