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The Smiles Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $69k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$3,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$381k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MULLY CHILDRENS FAMILY USA$50,000
ST PATRICK CHURCH IMOGENE$39,000
EACH ONE FEED ONE INTERNATIONAL$30,000
Individual grant recipient$5,720
LIFE COMMUNITY CHURCH$5,000
TREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION$3,500
BOONE CENTER INC$1,257
JOIN HANDS ESL$1,000
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$1,000
TEEN COURT FOUNDATION OF ST CLAIR COUNTY$1,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SW IL$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%4 HIM MINISTRIES: $2k → 14%EACH ONE FEED ONE INTERNATIONAL: $30k → 15%TREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%ST PATRICK CHURCH IMOGENE: $40k → 11%BE A ROSE INC: $250 → 11%BOONE CENTER INC: $1k → 5%GOOD SEED GOOD SOIL MINISTRIES: $500 → 8%PARADISE RANCH: $200 → 9%MULLY CHILDRENS FAMILY USA: $50k → 13%LIFE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $5k → 6%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS: $3k → 16%EACH ONE FEED ONE INTERNATIONAL: $6k → 15%TREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%ST PATRICK CHURCH IMOGENE: $39k → 11%BE A ROSE INC: $250 → 11%BOONE CENTER INC: $105 → 5%MULLY CHILDRENS FAMILY USA: $50k → 13%HOPE RANCH INC: $4k → 16%EACH ONE FEED ONE INTERNATIONAL: $410 → 15%TREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%MULLY CHILDRENS FAMILY USA: $3k → 13%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS: $1k → 16%HOPE RANCH INC: $1k → 16%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SW IL: $1k → 16%HOPE RANCH INC: $500 → 16%EQUUS RESCUE AND THERAPY: $1k → 16%ROYALE RANCH: $6k → 16%ROYALE RANCH: $6k → 16%ROYALE RANCH: $6k → 16%ROYALE RANCH: $1k → 16%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $1k → 16%TEEN COURT FOUNDATION OF ST CLAIR COUNTY: $1k → 16%TEEN COURT FOUNDATION OF ST CLAIR COUNTY: $1k → 16%TEEN COURT FOUNDATION OF ST CLAIR COUNTY: $500 → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
OR
IA
MO
TN
OK
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$265k · 12 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
4

Total granted

$265k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+285%

Still filing today

58%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
InternationalYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalHealthAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MC
    MULLY CHILDRENS FAMILY USA INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $103k · revenue +65%
  • EO
    EACH ONE FEED ONE-INTERNATIONAL INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $36k · revenue +10%
  • RD
    R3 DEVELOPMENT NFP
    2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • 4H
    4 HIM MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • ER
    EQUUS RESCUE AND THERAPY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +285%
  • GS
    GOOD SEED GOOD SOIL MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2023 · $500
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Epona Equine Rescue & Rehab
Animals
2
White Horse Youth Ranch
Animals
3
Eagle Ridge Youth Ranch

Equine services offered to disadvantaged youth.

Human Services
4
Rainfall Ranch Rescue

Equine rescue and rehabilitation

Animals
5
Raven Rock Ranch

Recovering children and rescuing horses to begin a bond of healing.

Animals
6
Believe Ranch and Rescue
Animals
7
Horses That Heal Inc

Committed to helping youth with behavioral problems and the issues that face wounded warriors and their families.

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8
Great Results Equine Assisted Therapies
Health
9
Redemption Ranch

Our mission is to help hurting children and teens through equine and agriculture assisted activities

Animals
10
Veteran Equine Therapy Stables
Public Benefit
11
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
12
Redemption Academy Inc

Mentoring troubled youths

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Join Hands Esl; the most unlike its peers is Equus Rescue and Therapy 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

10 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. 10 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MULLY CHILDRENS FAMILY USA INC: $102,812 · InternationalMULLY CHILDRENS FAMILY USA INCEACH ONE FEED ONE-INTERNATIONAL INC: $35,985 · InternationalEACH ONE FEED ONE-INTERNATIONAL INCST PATRICK CHURCH IMOGENE: $78,592 · OtherST PATRICK CHURCH IMOGENEIndividual grant recipient: $19,524 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherTREE OF LIFE FOUNDATIONHOPE RANCH INC: $5,500 · OtherLIFE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $5,000 · Other+7 more: $9,902 · Other+7 moreJOIN HANDS ESL: $5,020 · Youth DevelopmentR3 DEVELOPMENT NFP: $2,562 · Housing & ShelterTEEN COURT FOUNDATION OF ST CLAIR COUNTY: $2,500 · Crime & LegalEQUUS RESCUE AND THERAPY INC: $1,000 · AnimalsParadise Ranch Inc: $200 · Health
International$138,797Other$126,018Youth Development$5,020Housing & Shelter$2,562Crime & Legal$2,500Animals$1,000Health$200

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

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
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.

  • Who funds MULLY CHILDRENS FAMILY USA INC ↗
  • Who funds EACH ONE FEED ONE-INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds JOIN HANDS ESL ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds R3 DEVELOPMENT NFP ↗
  • Who funds TEEN COURT FOUNDATION OF ST CLAIR COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds BOONE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUUS RESCUE AND THERAPY INC ↗
  • Who funds Paradise Ranch Inc ↗

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 Fo…Network for GoodNatl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Smiles Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Smiles Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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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