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MORE SMILES WISCONSIN

MORE SMILES WISCONSIN (Wisconsin) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $883,453 to it, the largest being THE ROOTS AND WINGS FOUNDATION INC ($265,650). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$883k
Net assets
$832k
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What More Smiles Wisconsin does

Mission

The mission of More Smiles Wisconsin is to provide high-quality community care to those in need through health-related services, education, resources, and community outreach.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. More Smiles Wisconsin provides high quality dental care to the underserved population of south central wisconsin. We achieve this by utilizing both volunteer and staff providers. Our clinics accept medicaid and badgercare insurance; uninsured patients pay sliding scale fees based on their income level.

    $893,097 spent$208,011 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $893,097.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($483k) Expenses 100 ($517k) Net assets 100 ($204k)2019 Revenue 82 ($397k) Expenses 63 ($327k) Net assets 84 ($171k)2020 Revenue 79 ($381k) Expenses 59 ($304k) Net assets 122 ($248k)2021 Revenue 147 ($711k) Expenses 106 ($550k) Net assets 200 ($409k)2022 Revenue 138 ($666k) Expenses 109 ($565k) Net assets 249 ($510k)2023 Revenue 123 ($595k) Expenses 125 ($645k) Net assets 225 ($459k)2024 Revenue 273 ($1.3M) Expenses 183 ($948k) Net assets 407 ($832k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (273)Expenses (183)Net assets (407)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 2023 to 2024, from $504k to $1.1M (+110%).

$281k
$219k
$289k
$443k
$532k
$504k
$1.1M
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 67% · 2019 70% · 2020 65% · 2021 51% · 2022 45% · 2023 36% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

84% of MORE SMILES WISCONSIN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$34k
’18
$71k
’19
$77k
’20
$161k
’21
$101k
’22
−$51k
’23
$373k
’24
5.7
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.

Chief executive

Stacy Nehmer

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed89810878
Joined·+2+0+2+0+1+2
No longer listed·110221
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $85k → $180k.

3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 MORE SMILES WISCONSIN’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

MORE SMILES WISCONSIN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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

35% 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 MORE SMILES WISCONSIN.

30%
largest funder
62%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 74% · 2019 100% · 2020 52% · 2021 46% · 2022 68% · 2023 44% — 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

71% of MORE SMILES WISCONSIN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

MORE SMILES WISCONSIN draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 5 states in all.

WA
MN
WI
MA
CA

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

’17
’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $133k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

MORE SMILES WISCONSIN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin28% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like MORE SMILES WISCONSIN

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 Wisconsin

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 3%Fundraising 2%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

72%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MORE SMILES WISCONSIN: 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 MORE SMILES WISCONSIN?
MORE SMILES WISCONSIN (Wisconsin) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $883,453 to it, the largest being THE ROOTS AND WINGS FOUNDATION INC ($265,650). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MORE SMILES WISCONSIN have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $883,453 in grants to MORE SMILES WISCONSIN, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MORE SMILES WISCONSIN?
THE ROOTS AND WINGS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $265,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MORE SMILES WISCONSIN find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2018–2024), 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