Tennessee · Nonprofit
APPALACHIAN MILES FOR SMILES
APPALACHIAN MILES FOR SMILES (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,000 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC ($72,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $131k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $82k
- Net assets
- $296k
What Appalachian Miles for Smiles does
Mission
To provide quality dental care and eye examinations at no cost to uninsured residents of east tennessee and southwest virginia
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provided expanded quality dental care and eye examinations at no cost to uninsured residents of east tennessee and southwest virginia. Worked with regional university to assist with them with the sucessful gaining accreditation for new dental school. Completed renovations opened dental and vision services in a 1,600 sq ft suite in conjunction with the new dental school and new homeless shelter. Served over 4,300 in person encounters in the clinic alone. Mobile clinic numbers are not included
$153,638 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $153,638.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $4k to $200k (+4568%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 83% · 2022 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of APPALACHIAN MILES FOR SMILES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $24k.
From the IRS filings of APPALACHIAN MILES FOR SMILES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
APPALACHIAN MILES FOR SMILES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund APPALACHIAN MILES FOR SMILES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of APPALACHIAN MILES FOR SMILES's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
APPALACHIAN MILES FOR SMILES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like APPALACHIAN MILES FOR SMILES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for APPALACHIAN MILES FOR SMILES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds APPALACHIAN MILES FOR SMILES?
- APPALACHIAN MILES FOR SMILES (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,000 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC ($72,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does APPALACHIAN MILES FOR SMILES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $82,000 in grants to APPALACHIAN MILES FOR SMILES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of APPALACHIAN MILES FOR SMILES?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC is the largest funder on record, with $72,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like APPALACHIAN MILES FOR SMILES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing