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The Smiles Family 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.

$138k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
36%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 11
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$381k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations The Smiles Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
InternationalYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalHealthOther
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
FY2024still arriving11$138k27%
FY202311$106k36%
FY202210$23k50%
FY20217$9kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

International$139kReligion$95kRecreation & Sports$20kYouth Development$10kHealth$6kHousing & Shelter$3kCrime & Legal$3kEmployment$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
OR
IA
MO
TN
OK
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mully Childrens Family USA Inc$102,81231%
Each One Feed One-International Inc$35,985320%
Hope Ranch Inc$5,50036%
Join Hands Esl$5,02030%
Life Community Church$5,0001n/a
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwestern Illinois$3,54020%
R3 Development Nfp$2,56220%
Teen Court Foundation of St Clair County$2,50032%
4 Him Ministries$2,0001n/a
Boone Center Inc$1,36220%
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All grantees of The Smiles Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mully Childrens Family USA Inc$102,81231%
Each One Feed One-International Inc$35,985320%
Hope Ranch Inc$5,50036%
Join Hands Esl$5,02030%
Life Community Church$5,0001n/a
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwestern Illinois$3,54020%
R3 Development Nfp$2,56220%
Teen Court Foundation of St Clair County$2,50032%
4 Him Ministries$2,0001n/a
Boone Center Inc$1,36220%
Equus Rescue and Therapy Inc$1,00013%
Paradise Ranch Inc$20010%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($109k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Smiles Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMully Childrens Family USA Inc: $102,812 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetEach One Feed One-International Inc: $35,985 over 3y, 20% of budgetHope Ranch Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetJoin Hands Esl: $5,020 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Southwestern Illinois: $3,540 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetR3 Development Nfp: $2,562 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTeen Court Foundation of St Clair County: $2,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBoone Center Inc: $1,362 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEquus Rescue and Therapy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetParadise Ranch Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.5% 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 10.

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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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.

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About The Smiles Family Foundation

How much does The Smiles Family Foundation give?
The Smiles Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $138,477 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 11 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does The Smiles Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (50%), Religion (34%), Recreation & Sports (7%).
Who are The Smiles Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Mully Childrens Family USA Inc ($103k), Each One Feed One-International Inc ($36k), Hope Ranch Inc ($6k).
Does The Smiles Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Smiles Family 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Smiles Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Network for Good, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is The Smiles Family Foundation based?
The Smiles Family Foundation is based in IL.

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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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