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SMILE & OLIVE FOUNDATION

SMILE & OLIVE FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $543,802 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$166k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$544k
Net assets
$5k
2/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 62%
01What it does

What Smile & Olive Foundation does

Mission

Humanitarian support for refugees from the war in Syria

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Grants to Basmeh and Zeitooneh Beirut Lebanon and Berlin Germany. Grants provided for education programs for refugees

    $605,000 spentof which $605,000 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $605,000.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($104k) Expenses 100 ($70k) Net assets 100 ($97k)2022 Revenue 311 ($325k) Expenses 236 ($166k) Net assets 264 ($256k)2023 Revenue 635 ($664k) Expenses 1218 ($857k) Net assets 65 ($63k)2024 Revenue 441 ($461k) Expenses 107 ($76k) Net assets 461 ($448k)2025 Revenue 159 ($166k) Expenses 865 ($609k) Net assets 5 ($5k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (159)Expenses (865)Net assets (5)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 2024 to 2025, from $448k to $5k (−99%).

$97k
$415k
$63k
$448k
$5k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of SMILE & OLIVE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$34k
’21
$159k
’22
−$193k
’23
$385k
’24
−$443k
’25
0.1
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

Alia Malek

Chair President

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed4444
Joined·+0+0+0
No longer listed·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $11k → $245k.

4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 SMILE & OLIVE FOUNDATION’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

SMILE & OLIVE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

26% 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 SMILE & OLIVE FOUNDATION.

37%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 68% · 2019 74% · 2020 60% · 2021 77% · 2022 70% · 2023 81% — 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

40% of SMILE & OLIVE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 20% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

SMILE & OLIVE FOUNDATION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 6 states in all.

IL
NY
CA
UT
MD
DC

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $139k 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

SMILE & OLIVE FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−267% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
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

DC

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Questions and answers

Who funds SMILE & OLIVE FOUNDATION?
SMILE & OLIVE FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $543,802 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SMILE & OLIVE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $543,802 in grants to SMILE & OLIVE FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SMILE & OLIVE FOUNDATION?
THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SMILE & OLIVE FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2021–2025), 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