Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
KIDS SMILES INC
KIDS SMILES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,183,219 to it, the largest being Independence Blue Cross Foundation ($940,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.1M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Kids Smiles Inc does
Mission
The kids smiles mission is to create positive health behaviors and ensure that every child has access to quality oral healthcare, regardless of ability to pay.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Kids smiles, inc. And subsidiary (the organization") is a children's oral health nonprofit organization with dental centers and outreach programs in philadelphia, pennsylvania. The organization's purpose is to provide access to oral health care and education programs which give optimal treatment and health empowerment to at-risk children with limited or no insurance. More than 90% of kids smiles patients are covered by public insurance or are completely uninsured. The organization's revenues are from contributions, grants, and program fees. A significant amount of revenue received by the organization is from third-party state insurance reimbursement for services provided to insured patients.the kids smiles outreach & education program is the accompaniment to clinical services provided in the dental centers. Through this program, the organization delivers a comprehensive and standardized oral health curriculum that was created by local educators with the purpose of increasing oral health and healthy lifestyle awareness, and improving the overall oral health condition. The organization partners with 200 schools, head start programs, daycare centers, universities, community groups,…
$6,778,934 spent$7,738,572 earned by the program97% of program spendingThe kids smiles outreach & education program is the accompaniment to clinical services provided in the dental centers. Through this program, the organization delivers a comprehensive and standardized oral health curriculum that was created by local educators with the purpose of increasing oral health and healthy lifestyle awareness, and improving the overall oral health condition. The organization partners with 200 schools, head start programs, daycare centers, universities, community groups, and health fairs to deliver the curriculum classroom to classroom or in small group settings, and also provides dental screenings and on-site preventive dental care. The oral health curriculum is also delivered in the waiting rooms of the organization's dental centers through the program entitled the kids smiles dental detective academy.
$176,406 spent3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,955,340.
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 $1.4M to $2.1M (+54%).
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: 2017 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 12% · 2022 10% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of KIDS SMILES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Cheryl Janssen
CEO/board member
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $148k → $578k.
5 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 KIDS 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
KIDS SMILES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
28% 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 KIDS SMILES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 27% · 2019 30% · 2020 35% · 2021 36% · 2022 67% · 2023 74% — 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.
How long its funders stay
45% of KIDS SMILES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
70% of KIDS SMILES INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $426k 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
KIDS SMILES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding KIDS SMILES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.3M on record — $250k federal, $4.0M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$250k
- (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$4.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like KIDS 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Kids Smiles of DC LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KIDS 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 KIDS SMILES INC?
- KIDS SMILES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,183,219 to it, the largest being Independence Blue Cross Foundation ($940,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIDS SMILES INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $2,183,219 in grants to KIDS SMILES INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIDS SMILES INC?
- Independence Blue Cross Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $940,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIDS SMILES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 30 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