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The Smile Trust

The Smile Trust has taken on the task to provide resources, education, jobs, and housing to combat poverty and homelessness.

$237k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Human Services$98kCommunity Improvement$83kEducation$19kReligion$18kHousing & Shelter$8kFood & Nutrition$7kCivil Rights$7kHealth$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $114,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $237,140 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $122,640 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

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $102k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Struggle for Miami's Affordable$52,000
National Coalition of 100 Black Women$50,000
Black Monday Project$12,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MIRACLE OF LOVE INC: $2k → 13%TOTAL RESTORATION TRANSFORMATION CENTER INC: $2k → 13%AFRO PRIDE: $4k → 13%ROOTS COLLECTIVE: $17k → 15%TRANSSOCIAL INC: $2k → 15%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.
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 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
Trans Women in Need of Services Inc

We advocate to protect and defend equality for Transgender and LGBQ individuals in South Florida by building trust and relationships with community providers to end discrimination, stigma, and racial disparities to decrease social…

Education
2
Transformative Organizational Consulting

Transformative Organizational Consulting (TOC) provides training, coaching, convening, and consulting services that enable organizers to effectively navigate the complexities of community-building and effectively navigate power dynamics to…

Human Services
3
H Collective

is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Florida, reimagining how care, stability, and joy show up for people navigating life after crisis. We create culturally grounded, community-powered programs for individuals impacted by…

Education
4
Black Seeds

prove asset to organic food

Food & Nutrition
5
Code for Miami Inc

Supporting Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion through open and transparent governments. Building infrastructures connecting people, businesses, and non-profits through localized data. Equipping institutions and communities with modern tools…

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6
Antioch Carol City Community Devel
Human Services
7
Latinos Salud Inc

Latinos Salud exists to provide client-centered, culturally competent health education and integrated preventive, screening, and healthcare services throughout South Florida to reduce the burden of communicable diseases and improve health…

Education
8
The Black Collaborative Inc
Community Improvement
9
Hogar Crea International of Florida
Health
10
Central Miami Intergroup
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11
The Womens Care Florida Foundation
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12
Seeds of the Beloved Community
Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Miracle of Love Inc; the most unlike its peers is Afro Pride Federation Inc. 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

17 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. 17 of the 38 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)
15/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALIANZA CENTER: $80,000 · OtherALIANZA CENTERDADE COUNTY STREET RESPNSE: $58,100 · OtherDADE COUNTY STREET RESPNSENATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN CENTRAL FL: $52,000 · OtherNATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN CENTRAL FLIndividual grant recipient: $39,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGLOBAL IMAGE FOUNDATION: $19,200 · OtherGLOBAL IMAGE FOUNDATIONBlack Monday Project: $12,500 · Other+17 more: $49,500 · Other+17 moreStruggle for Miamis Affordable and Sustainable Housing Incorporated: $53,500 · Community ImprovementStruggle for Mia…MOUNT OLIVE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $2,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $3,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ROOTS COLLECTIVE CORP: $16,637 · Human ServicesAfro Pride Federation Inc: $4,000 · Human ServicesTOTAL RESTORATION TRANSFORMATION CENTER INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesMIRACLE OF LOVE INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesMAYFAIRE MEDICAL INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesTHE GREEN HAVEN PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionVILLAGE FREEDGE INC THE ROOTS COLLEVTIVE CORP: $2,000 · Food & NutritionMedicine Bowl Giving Circle Inc: $5,050 · EnvironmentSOZO WELLNESS CENTER INC: $2,000 · HealthRENACER EN VIDA NUEVA INC: $1,500 · ReligionMiami Workers Center Inc: $1,400 · Employment
Other$310,300Community Improvement$58,500Human Services$26,137Food & Nutrition$7,000Environment$5,050Health$2,000Religion$1,500Employment$1,400

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetStruggle for Miamis Affordable and Sustainable Housing Incorporated: $53,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMedicine Bowl Giving Circle Inc: $5,050 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetONE BY ONE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMOUNT OLIVE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTOTAL RESTORATION TRANSFORMATION CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMIRACLE OF LOVE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE FREEDGE INC THE ROOTS COLLEVTIVE CORP: $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetQUALITY LIFE CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRENACER EN VIDA NUEVA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE BLACK COLLECTIVE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAYFAIRE MEDICAL INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMiami Workers Center Inc: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Miami Foundation …Groundswell FundAllegany Franciscan M…Borealis PhilanthropyOur Fund Foundation I…Proteus Fund IncCommon Counsel Founda…Amalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationThe Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Miami Foundation IncFL22.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Miami Foundation Inc · Groundswell Fund · Allegany Franciscan Ministries Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Our Fund Foundation Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 The Smile Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Smile Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Green Haven Project Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Miracle of Love Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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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How do I get to The Smile Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Smile Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 38 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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