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CITY OF SMILE - USA INC

CITY OF SMILE - USA INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $499,444 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($131,364). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$403k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$499k
Net assets
$214k
6/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What City of Smile - USA Inc does

Mission

City of smile - usa's mission is to improve the lives of children diagnosed with cancer in armenia by raising awareness and funds to provide life- saving treatments as well as emotional, nutritional, and psychological support for affected children and their families.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Raise funds to improve the lives of children diagnosed with cancer in Armenia

    $180,000 spentof which $180,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $180,000.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 0 ($0)2021 Revenue 100 ($199k) Expenses 100 ($105k) Net assets 100 ($124k)2022 Revenue 79 ($158k) Expenses 207 ($217k) Net assets 53 ($66k)2023 Revenue 181 ($360k) Expenses 184 ($193k) Net assets 188 ($233k)2024 Revenue 203 ($403k) Expenses 404 ($423k) Net assets 172 ($214k)
20192021202220232024
Revenue (203)Expenses (404)Net assets (172)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 2022 to 2023, from $66k to $233k (+256%).

$0
$124k
$66k
$233k
$214k
20192021202220232024
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.

2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

67% of CITY OF SMILE - USA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 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.

$0
’19
$94k
’21
−$59k
’22
$168k
’23
−$20k
’24
6.1
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.

2019202120232024
Listed33312
Joined···+10
No longer listed···1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $48k → $46k.

6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 CITY OF SMILE - USA INC’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

CITY OF SMILE - USA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

72% 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 CITY OF SMILE - USA INC.

26%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 63% · 2022 58% · 2023 72% — growing more concentrated.

“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

72% of CITY OF SMILE - USA INC'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 $141k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states.

NY
MA
NJ

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

’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $358k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

CITY OF SMILE - USA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · below the median
Months of reserve6.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)27% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like CITY OF SMILE - USA INC

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In Massachusetts

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

74%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

MA
CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds CITY OF SMILE - USA INC?
CITY OF SMILE - USA INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $499,444 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($131,364). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CITY OF SMILE - USA INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $499,444 in grants to CITY OF SMILE - USA INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CITY OF SMILE - USA INC?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $131,364 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CITY OF SMILE - USA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 12 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