South Carolina · Nonprofit
HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC
HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,750,305 to it, the largest being ARKWRIGHT FOUNDATION ($464,250). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $666k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Healthy Smiles of Spartanburg Inc does
Mission
To advocate and promote the health of spartanburg, cherokee, and union county children through community dental health screenings, education, and oral health services for qualifying children at no cost to their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Healthy smiles provided comprehensive pediatric dental care to 1,053 unduplicated uninsured and under served children through its free dental clinic this fiscal year. Services included dental exams, cleanings, sealants, fillings, crowns, extractions, radiographs, and preventative education. The organization also coordinated specialty referrals for advanced restorative and sedation services when clinically necessary. Through case management, transportation coordination, translation support, and appointment reminder system, healthy smiles reduced barriers to care and strengthened continuity of treatment for vulnerable children and families.
$457,457 spent90% of program spendingHealthy smiles conducted school-based oral health screenings for 25,136 children across 93 schools in spartanburg, cherokee, and union counties during this fiscal year. Every child screened received a free toothbrush, oral health education, and take-home education materials designed to reinforce healthy habits with caregivers. Students identified with urgent or unmet dental needs were connected to follow-up care through healthy smiles or community dental partners, helping improve access to preventative adn restorative services for uninsured children.
$34,448 spent7% of program spendingHealthy smiles provided oral health education and prevention outreach to 88,880 children and families throughout spartanburg, cherokee, and union counties. Education efforts included school-based outreach, community health fairs, summer programs, recreation center activities, educational flyers distributed through school registration packets, and digital and print awareness capaigns focused on cavity prevention and healthy oral hygiene habits. Outreach initiatives also included a county-wide baby bottle tooth decay billboard awaremess campaign designed to educate caregiveres on early childhood oral health and prevention. These efforts promote early intervention, improve oral health literacy, and encourage lifelong healthy habits for children and families.
$17,885 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $509,790.
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 2023 to 2024, from $961k to $1.4M (+44%).
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.
97% of HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Steven C Blanton Jr
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $62k → $321k.
4 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG 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
HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
55% 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 HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 38% · 2019 41% · 2020 28% · 2021 17% · 2022 49% · 2023 43% — 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
43% of HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
71% of HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $340k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC?
- HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,750,305 to it, the largest being ARKWRIGHT FOUNDATION ($464,250). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,750,305 in grants to HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC?
- ARKWRIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $464,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 24 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