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SMILE MASS INC

SMILE MASS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,246,465 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($543,750). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.1M
Funders on record
36
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$806k
17/36 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Smile Mass Inc does

Mission

Our mission:small miracles in life exist (smile mass) is a 501 c3 non-profit organization dedicated to helping families raising children or adults with disabilities enjoy happy, healthy memories through education, vacation, and recreation experiences.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Club smile mass consists of hybrid classes to stimulate our clients both mentally and physically. Smile mass will do an intake to ensure each client has the appropriate equipment to participate in our many classes. All adapted equipment (gym, bike, etc) are on loan to the client while part of the program. This ensures appropriate support and safety for each client. Hybrid-model classes will take place in the metro-west area of massachusetts.our monthly hybrid classes include:* music* story time* zoom small group workout class* bingo* biking bike evaluations will be done by a physical therapist* partnership with a local metro-west area gym and pool access to one-on-one training or small group classes monday through friday in natick, ma. Swimming classes on tuesday, thursday or saturday in sudbury, ma.all one-on-one training/small group classes and all swim classes are by appointment only.all classes are run by certified staff.

    $187,778 spent$281,435 earned by the program
    29% of program spending
  2. Smile mass offers a fully accessible vacation home on the beautiful truro beach in massachusetts, providing families with disabled loved ones a much-needed break and an inclusive environment to create lasting memories.

    $46,925 spent$394,287 earned by the program
    7% of program spending
  3. Smile mass donates approximately 20 floating beach wheelchairs per year to public beaches and ponds throughout new england.every donation received will help the smile mass mission, ensuring every public beach and pond in new england will become accessible to all, one beach wheelchair at a time.

    $27,450 spent
    4% of program spending
  4. Provide services and opportunities to individuals and families to enjoy time together and create happy, healthy memories

    $382,663 spent
    59% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $644,816.

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 ($325k) Expenses 100 ($219k) Net assets 100 ($194k)2020 Revenue 99 ($322k) Expenses 92 ($200k) Net assets 343 ($666k)2021 Revenue 108 ($351k) Expenses 97 ($212k) Net assets 235 ($456k)2022 Revenue 147 ($477k) Expenses 166 ($364k) Net assets 283 ($549k)2023 Revenue 144 ($470k) Expenses 252 ($551k) Net assets 227 ($441k)2024 Revenue 328 ($1.1M) Expenses 321 ($703k) Net assets 415 ($806k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (328)Expenses (321)Net assets (415)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 $780k to $1.5M (+87%).

$194k
$666k
$763k
$831k
$780k
$1.5M
201920202021202220232024
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

28% of SMILE MASS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$107k
’19
$122k
’20
$139k
’21
$114k
’22
−$81k
’23
$365k
’24
5.0
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

Gerard Verweij

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201920202021202220232024
Listed888888
Joined·+0+0+0+1+1
No longer listed·00011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $40k → $101k.

8 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 MASS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 funders by total. 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 MASS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

61% 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 MASS INC.

44%
largest funder
68%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 87% · 2019 79% · 2020 65% · 2021 51% · 2022 23% · 2023 24% — 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

58% of SMILE MASS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

59% of SMILE MASS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $513k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

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IL
NY
MA
RI
NC
FL

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $734k 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

SMILE MASS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin34% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)27% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 5%Fundraising 3%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds SMILE MASS INC?
SMILE MASS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,246,465 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($543,750). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SMILE MASS INC have?
IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $1,246,465 in grants to SMILE MASS INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SMILE MASS INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $543,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SMILE MASS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 36 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