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READY SET SMILE PA

READY SET SMILE PA (Minnesota) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,807,918 to it, the largest being ROSE FRANCIS FOUNDATION ($311,166). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.3M
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$1.8M
Net assets
$762k
16/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 50%
01What it does

What Ready Set Smile Pa does

Mission

The mission of ready set smile (rss) is to prepare all children in the community to care for their oral health through preventative dental services and oral health education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Ready, set, smile is a school-based community organization that provides on-site preventive dental services and classroom education in the twin cities region to decrease oral health disparities in high-risk children. In the 2024-2025 school year, ready, set, smile provided 2623 children with dental services and taught our oral health curriculum to 3568 children in their classrooms. In the 2024-2025 fiscal year, we served schools and early childhood centers in minneapolis, st paul and east metro, columbia heights, robbinsdale and hopkins. About 39% of the children that we served have no insurance and rss provided care at no cost to these families. About 83% of the children that we serve identify as being of color. In the 2024-2025 school year, 57 dental students were trained.

    $916,295 spent$578,936 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $916,295.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($424k) Expenses 100 ($441k) Net assets 100 ($57k)2020 Revenue 124 ($524k) Expenses 91 ($401k) Net assets 314 ($180k)2021 Revenue 90 ($380k) Expenses 83 ($365k) Net assets 340 ($195k)2022 Revenue 145 ($616k) Expenses 96 ($423k) Net assets 678 ($388k)2023 Revenue 166 ($705k) Expenses 131 ($575k) Net assets 904 ($518k)2024 Revenue 249 ($1.1M) Expenses 198 ($872k) Net assets 1236 ($708k)2025 Revenue 296 ($1.3M) Expenses 272 ($1.2M) Net assets 1330 ($762k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (296)Expenses (272)Net assets (1330)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 $530k to $743k (+40%).

$61k
$241k
$269k
$404k
$530k
$743k
$904k
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 3% · 2022 3% · 2024 3% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

52% of READY SET SMILE PA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,632 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$17k
’19
$123k
’20
$15k
’21
$193k
’22
$130k
’23
$183k
’24
$54k
’25
5.1
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.

Board chair

James Wyvell

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed11131111121117
Joined·+9+7+3+3+2+8
No longer listed·793232
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $141k → $178k.

9 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 READY SET SMILE PA’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

READY SET SMILE PA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

44% 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 READY SET SMILE PA.

17%
largest funder
42%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 26% · 2019 29% · 2020 27% · 2021 29% · 2022 28% · 2023 37% — 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

50% of READY SET SMILE PA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

78% of READY SET SMILE PA's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

VT
MN
MA
MO
AZ
NC
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $402k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

READY SET SMILE PA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · above the median
Months of reserve5.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like READY SET SMILE PA

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 Minnesota

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 18%Fundraising 5%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds READY SET SMILE PA?
READY SET SMILE PA (Minnesota) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,807,918 to it, the largest being ROSE FRANCIS FOUNDATION ($311,166). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does READY SET SMILE PA have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,807,918 in grants to READY SET SMILE PA, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of READY SET SMILE PA?
ROSE FRANCIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $311,166 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like READY SET SMILE PA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 29 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