California · Nonprofit
CURA SMILES INC
CURA SMILES INC (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $369,257 to it, the largest being LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION ($85,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $469k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $369k
- Net assets
- $223k
What Cura Smiles Inc does
Mission
Cura smiles, inc. Exists to expand sustainable dental services to the under-served, both locally and globally. Theses efforts are accomplished through a system of training and equipping local dentists and students to provide the important oral health care services. The dental procedures are provided by licensed dentists and dental professionals with the assistance of those in training. These are 100% volunteer services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Cura smiles operates a free dental clinic in the under-served community of city heights, located in san diego, ca. The clinic was constructed and equipped with five dental chairs and provides basic dental care, including examinations, x-rays, extractions, fillings and cleaning. The cura smiles dental professionals performed over 510,000 in free procedures. 1,870 procedures were performed for the patients. 305 patients were treated at cura smiles clinic during 2025. 111 dentures were provided for patients during 2025. There were 46 volunteer dentist, dental assistants, hygienists, and students throughout 2025. These volunteers completed over 1,247 hours of service at the cura smiles clinic.
$281,515 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $281,515.
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 2024 to 2025, from $135k to $224k (+66%).
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: 2022 2% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of CURA SMILES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $23k.
From the IRS filings of CURA SMILES 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
CURA SMILES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
26% 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 CURA SMILES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2021 65% · 2022 26% · 2023 40% — 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
40% of CURA SMILES INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 46% 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
59% of CURA SMILES INC's grant income comes from California 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
CURA SMILES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CURA SMILES INC
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.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CURA SMILES INC: 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 CURA SMILES INC?
- CURA SMILES INC (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $369,257 to it, the largest being LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION ($85,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CURA SMILES INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $369,257 in grants to CURA SMILES INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CURA SMILES INC?
- LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CURA SMILES INC 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 13 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing