Minnesota · Nonprofit
SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL
SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL (Minnesota) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,148,028 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($414,313). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $581k
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Smile Network International does
Mission
The mission of Smile Network International is straightforward: to provide free reconstructive surgeries for individuals born with cleft lips and palates in developing countries.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Smile Network International is a minnesota-based, non-profit organization that provides life altering, reconstructive cleft surgeries and related healthcare services at no charge to under-resourced children and adults across the globe. Smile Network International conducts surgical campaigns to impart diginity and quality of life to individuals whose medical needs may otherwise go untreated. For as little as 500, smile network is able to change a life. Smile Network International operated one site in mexico during 2024. A total of 27 cleft surgieries were performed at a site in chapala at no cost to the patient.
$452,515 spent$54,181 earned by the program90% of program spendingAfter three years of planning, we are proud to announce the successful completion of our two-part tribal nation dental health campaign pilot, held in october 2024 and april 2025 in partnership with the standing rock tribe in north and south dakota. Alongside our partner, boger dental, we provided dental care to 431 students, from kindergarten through twelfth grade-many of whom had never seen a dentist. More than 98 children were identified with urgent dental needs, highlighting the critical importance of ongoing care to prevent serious health complications, emergency visits, and hospitalizations. Building on the success of our pilot, we returned to standing rock from september 29 to october 1, 2025, partnering with boger dental and elk plaza dental to continue this essential work. During this visit, we served 314 students and identified 19 children with urgent dental needs. Smile Network International remains committed to bridging this healthcare gap, providing ongoing preventive care and essential dental services to ensure healthier futures for these communities. Together, we can help restore smiles and improve lives for generations to come.
$51,783 spent10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $504,298.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.0M to $1.7M (−14%).
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: 2021 15% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Greg Frankenfield
Chairman of
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $58k → $180k.
10 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 NETWORK INTERNATIONAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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 NETWORK INTERNATIONAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% 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
82% 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 NETWORK INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 50% · 2019 52% · 2020 19% · 2021 30% · 2022 42% · 2023 33% — 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
48% of SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $504k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 19 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL?
- SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL (Minnesota) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,148,028 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($414,313). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $1,148,028 in grants to SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $414,313 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 41 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