Connecticut · Nonprofit
BRADYS SMILE
BRADYS SMILE (Connecticut) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,614 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($81,992). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $67k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $147k
- Net assets
- $121k
What Bradys Smile does
Mission
Brady's Smile, Inc. was organized exclusively for charitable purposes. Specifically, Brady's Smile, Inc. will promote, improve, protect and sustain the health, emotional well-being and social development of children in need, including children suffering from illness or disability, children at risk and under served children. It is our goal to help in the following ways: 1) Help make life easier in the newborn and pediatric intensive care facilities for patients and their families; 2) Provide financial assistance to defray medical expenses; and 3) Establish and grant scholarships to educational institutions benefiting children in need. In 2025, Brady's Smile's programs serve patients mainly in pediatric and newborn Intensive Care Units ("ICU") in 41 pediatric hospitals across 18 states.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Our Comfort Bags program provides basic essentials to caregivers and toys to babies and children who are in the ICU of children's hospitals. Our bags include items such as toiletries, a pen, paper, snacks, stuffed animals and toys. In 2025, we also added a new "Arts and Crafts" bag for the Emergency Departments which includes playdoh, coloring book, crayons, slime and a craft. Our comfort bag program also includes special holiday bags as well. We provide holiday bags for Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween and stockings for Christmas. During 2025, Brady's Smile distributed 1,947 comfort bags to families in the hospital.
$25,852 spentof which $25,496 as grants43% of program spendingOur Meals program provides breakfast, lunch and/or dinner to children and their parents while in the hospital. We have also expanded to include free breakfast items, cups of coffee and delivery from restaurants. We found that many people appreciated free coffee and breakfast items. During 2025, Brady's Smile served 8,850 meals, cups of coffee or breakfast to people in the hospitals.
$11,065 spentof which $11,065 as grants18% of program spendingOur Brady Blankets program provides homemade fleece blankets to babies and children during their time in the hospital. During 2025, Brady's Smile distributed 1,052 blankets to children in the ICU.
$10,421 spentof which $10,261 as grants17% of program spendingThis year is our tenth year in a partnership with Bridgeport Hospital to help provide toys and other services to their 'Toy Closet.' We consider this to be similar to our comfort bag program, but this program provides toys to babies in the NICU/PICU as needed throughout their stay, as well as inpatient children who complete various procedures during their stay. In 2025, we provided 655 toys/books for children/babies at Bridgeport Hospital in CT.
$7,950 spentof which $7,950 as grants13% of program spendingThis year is our fourth year of distributing "Teen Totes." This program is very similar to our Comfort Bag program but focuses on the needs of teens in the hospital. Each tote runs approximately $25-30 and includes items such as yoga mats, wireless ear buds, slime, journals, gel pens, candy, puzzles, make up and chapstick, cozy socks, soft 'balls' for them to throw in their rooms plus more. In 2025, we provided 154 Teen Totes to our partnering hospitals.
$3,381 spentof which $3,381 as grants6% of program spendingOur PICU and NICU Wishlist program is where we purchase things the child life department or nurses are directly requesting for the smallest patients. This year the request included grief bags which included grief books, tissues, heart stones and more for families who lost their child at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital. In 2025, we granted 12 wishes to our partnering children's hospitals.
$1,310 spentof which $1,310 as grants2% of program spendingThis year our Smiles in a Box program helped provide enhanced 'comfort bags' to children who were not in our partnering children's hospitals. This included helping 1 family out with items they needed to help assist their critically ill children. We distributed items like gas cards and holiday gifts and dinners to help families during this hardship.
$250 spentof which $250 as grants0% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $60,229.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2019 to 2020, from $186k to $158k (−15%).
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.
100% of BRADYS SMILE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $200 → $29k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 BRADYS SMILE’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
BRADYS SMILE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
63% 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 BRADYS SMILE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 63% · 2019 100% · 2020 92% · 2021 52% · 2022 51% · 2023 34% — 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
100% of BRADYS SMILE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
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
56% of BRADYS SMILE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $64k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
BRADYS SMILE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BRADYS SMILE
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRADYS SMILE?
- BRADYS SMILE (Connecticut) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,614 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($81,992). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRADYS SMILE have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $146,614 in grants to BRADYS SMILE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRADYS SMILE?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $81,992 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRADYS SMILE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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