California · Nonprofit
Big Smiles
Big Smiles (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being KENNETH RAININ FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $135k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $44k
What Big Smiles does
Mission
Temporary Sober Housing and education and training
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Assisting residents in training and education to maintain soberity
$0 spentTraining and motivation for employment
$0 spentEmployment motivation
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Big 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Big Smiles's grant income comes from California funders.
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
Big Smiles runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Big 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Big 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 Big Smiles?
- Big Smiles (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being KENNETH RAININ FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Big Smiles have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to Big Smiles, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Big Smiles?
- KENNETH RAININ FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Big Smiles find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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