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BLACK GIRLS SMILE INC

BLACK GIRLS SMILE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,259,890 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($605,336). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.5M
Funders on record
43
Grants received
$3.3M
Net assets
$946k
15/43 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 57%
01What it does

What Black Girls Smile Inc does

Mission

Black girls smile, inc.'s mission is grounded in research, focus group findings, and personal experiences highlighting the under-served and underrepresented mental health needs of young black women. The organization envisions a society that through the normalization and dialogue surrounding mental wellness, all individuals, including young black females, areprovided education, support and resources necessary to lead mentally healthy lives.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization envisions a society that through the normalization and dialogue surrounding mental wellness, all individuals, including young black females, are provided education, support and resources necessary to lead mentally healthy lives.

    $364,802 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $364,802.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($181k) Expenses 100 ($52k) Net assets 100 ($136k)2021 Revenue 457 ($826k) Expenses 679 ($353k) Net assets 447 ($609k)2022 Revenue 1055 ($1.9M) Expenses 3983 ($2.1M) Net assets 328 ($447k)2023 Revenue 781 ($1.4M) Expenses 3029 ($1.6M) Net assets 209 ($285k)2024 Revenue 835 ($1.5M) Expenses 1631 ($848k) Net assets 694 ($946k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (835)Expenses (1631)Net assets (694)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $342k to $965k (+182%).

$139k
$618k
$488k
$342k
$965k
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of BLACK GIRLS SMILE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$129k
’20
$473k
’21
−$162k
’22
−$162k
’23
$661k
’24
13
months of
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.

Chief executive

Lauren Carson

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2021202220232024
Listed8889
Joined·+2+1+2
No longer listed·211
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $49k → $741k.

11 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of BLACK GIRLS SMILE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 funders by total. 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

BLACK GIRLS SMILE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

59% 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 BLACK GIRLS SMILE INC.

19%
largest funder
43%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 39% · 2021 54% · 2022 38% · 2023 20% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

22% of BLACK GIRLS SMILE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

BLACK GIRLS SMILE INC draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 16 states in all.

VT
WA
MN
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
MO
MD
DE
GA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BLACK GIRLS SMILE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin44% · top quartile
Months of reserve13.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)70% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like BLACK GIRLS SMILE INC

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In Georgia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

43% of spending goes to programs.

Program 43%Management 49%Fundraising 8%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

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Questions and answers

Who funds BLACK GIRLS SMILE INC?
BLACK GIRLS SMILE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,259,890 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($605,336). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BLACK GIRLS SMILE INC have?
IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $3,259,890 in grants to BLACK GIRLS SMILE INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BLACK GIRLS SMILE INC?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $605,336 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BLACK GIRLS SMILE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 43 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