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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of THE SMILE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $119,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $248,470 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $129,470 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $39k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALIANZA CENTER | $80,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $39,000 |
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.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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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…
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…
Ubuntu Black Family Wellness Collective is a free and charitable clinic and social safety net. Ubuntu Black Family Wellness Collective serves Black pregnant and parenting mamas, their babies and children through community-based, holistic…
Our Mission is to provide innovative HIV/AIDS health education workshops and prevention programs for children and adults to increase HIV awareness, reduce transmission of new HIV infections, and improve therapeutic outcomes among those…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Miracle of Love Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 6 years old; the field is 11. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 29% of your grantees by number, and just 38% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
17 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. 17 of the 37 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE ROOTS COLLECTIVE CORP ↗
- Who funds Medicine Bowl Giving Circle Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE BY ONE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN HAVEN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Afro Pride Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT OLIVE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TOTAL RESTORATION TRANSFORMATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOZO WELLNESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE FREEDGE INC THE ROOTS COLLEVTIVE CORP ↗
- Who funds RENACER EN VIDA NUEVA INC ↗
- Who funds QUALITY LIFE CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLACK COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Struggle for Miamis Affordable and Sustainable Housing Incorporated ↗
- Who funds MAYFAIRE MEDICAL INC ↗
- Who funds Miami Workers Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Power U Center for Social Change Inc ↗
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.
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
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 The Smile Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Green Haven Project Inc — 1% of income from government
- Miracle of Love Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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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.