Louisiana · Nonprofit
SAVANNAH SMILES INC
SAVANNAH SMILES INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $730,313 to it, the largest being BAPTIST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ($555,327). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $306k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $730k
- Net assets
- $355k
What Savannah Smiles Inc does
Mission
Savannah smiles primary mission is to reach out to parents who have experienced the untimely death of their child. We provide financial and emotional support for those on this difficult road.it seems unnatural when a child dies and most parents are financially unprepared for their child's burial expenses. Savannah smiles helps these families with the expenses so they can honor their child one last time at burial.in addition to financial support for these families, savannah smiles offers emotional support. We provide each family with 'the one year book of hope' by nancy guthrie,and a grieving with hope cd. We also make phone calls and / or send remembrance cards on special dates (child's birthday, etc.).savannah smiles strives to be an outreach for the slidell, la community first, then go wherever god leads us.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Helping other families during the loss of their child has been and continues to be savannah smiles primary ministry. Our family didn't carry life insurance on our children--most families don't. Parents never think insurance is something they need on their child. In our mind, we believe that our children should never precede us in death. Sometimes, that isn't how things happen. Through the generous outpouring of support from family and friends, we didn't experience a financial burden in burial costs when savannah went to heaven.
$238,612 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $238,612.
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 2020 to 2021, from $343k to $543k (+58%).
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: 2023 28% · 2024 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of SAVANNAH SMILES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Jennifer Scharfenstein
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $10k → $135k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 SAVANNAH 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
SAVANNAH SMILES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 100% · 2018 85% · 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 81% · 2022 79% · 2023 67% — 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
80% of SAVANNAH SMILES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
92% of SAVANNAH SMILES INC's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k 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.
Against its field
SAVANNAH SMILES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SAVANNAH 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 Louisiana
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
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAVANNAH SMILES INC?
- SAVANNAH SMILES INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $730,313 to it, the largest being BAPTIST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ($555,327). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAVANNAH SMILES INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $730,313 in grants to SAVANNAH SMILES INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAVANNAH SMILES INC?
- BAPTIST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES is the largest funder on record, with $555,327 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAVANNAH SMILES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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