Rhode Island · Nonprofit
SCIENCE AND MATH INVESTIGATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES SMILE PROGRAM
SCIENCE AND MATH INVESTIGATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES SMILE PROGRAM (Rhode Island) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,561 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($69,939). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $220k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $247k
- Net assets
- $307k
What Science and Math Investigative Learning Experiences Smile Program does
Mission
To increase the number of minority and disadvantaged students who graduate high school well-prepared to enter higher education and pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide learning opportunities for grade school through high school students that include field trips, science clubs, challenge weekends, professional development for teachers and other activities.
$146,302 spent99% of program spendingSmile students who have participated for three years or more submit applications and are awarded $500 scholarships based on their participation.
$1,500 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $147,802.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $211k to $324k (+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 6% · 2018 8% · 2019 10% · 2020 14% · 2023 24% · 2024 25% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Carol Englander
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $30k → $18k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 SCIENCE AND MATH INVESTIGATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES SMILE PROGRAM’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
SCIENCE AND MATH INVESTIGATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES SMILE PROGRAM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
52% 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 SCIENCE AND MATH INVESTIGATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES SMILE PROGRAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 76% · 2021 75% · 2022 43% · 2023 57% — 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
25% of SCIENCE AND MATH INVESTIGATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES SMILE PROGRAM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
SCIENCE AND MATH INVESTIGATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES SMILE PROGRAM draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110k 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.
Organizations like SCIENCE AND MATH INVESTIGATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES SMILE PROGRAM
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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% 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 SCIENCE AND MATH INVESTIGATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES SMILE PROGRAM?
- SCIENCE AND MATH INVESTIGATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES SMILE PROGRAM (Rhode Island) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,561 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($69,939). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCIENCE AND MATH INVESTIGATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES SMILE PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $246,561 in grants to SCIENCE AND MATH INVESTIGATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES SMILE PROGRAM, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCIENCE AND MATH INVESTIGATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES SMILE PROGRAM?
- THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $69,939 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCIENCE AND MATH INVESTIGATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES SMILE PROGRAM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 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