California · Nonprofit
GLOBAL GRINS
GLOBAL GRINS (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,588 to it, the largest being THE HEXBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION ($43,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $11k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $66k
- Net assets
- $0
What Global Grins does
Mission
Global Grins mission is to distribute toothbrushes, oral hygiene information and other oral care materials to as many impoverished persons around the world as possible, who may not otherwise have access to toothbrushes.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Global Grins primary purpose is to distribute toothbrushes, oral hygiene information and other oral care materials to as many impoverished persons around the world. To date, over 1,000 Global Grins volunteers have distributed over 1,092,906 toothbrushes to over 100 countries. After 13 years, Global Grins terminated in 2023. The remaining asset of $38,630 has been contributed to another irc section 501(c)(3) non profit, global dental relief.
$39,708 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $39,708.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $28k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Todd Miller
CEO, sec, treas
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $8k → $16k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 GLOBAL GRINS’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
GLOBAL GRINS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 76% · 2019 71% · 2020 63% · 2021 60% · 2022 71% — 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.
Where its funders are
92% of GLOBAL GRINS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like GLOBAL GRINS
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GLOBAL GRINS: 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 GLOBAL GRINS?
- GLOBAL GRINS (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,588 to it, the largest being THE HEXBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION ($43,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GLOBAL GRINS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $65,588 in grants to GLOBAL GRINS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL GRINS?
- THE HEXBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $43,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOBAL GRINS 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 5 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