Ohio · Nonprofit
SMILES ARE FOREVER
SMILES ARE FOREVER (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $479 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($479). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $9k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $479
- Net assets
- $13k
What Smiles Are Forever does
Mission
Smiles Are Forever is a nonprofit childrens charity founded to put smiles on the faces of kids experiencing pediatric cancer. Based in the greater cleveland, ohio area, we have a special heart for helping children diagnosed with pediatric cancer. Raising awareness and creating smiles is our 1 goal. We are a different kind of childrens charity, one that harnesses the power of new media to activate communities and rally them around children in need by telling their stories with powerful video messaging.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We tell the stories of children suffering and in need, giving them a voice and a platform for sharing and not feeling alone. We tell the stories of the donors who have come to their aid or brought them that spark of joy in the form of a smile. In addition to building a beacon of hope through our social media pages and videos, we will also organize events throughout the year to raise funds for pediatric cancer patients. Events not only bring donations but they are a great tool for raising awareness. Our ultimate goal is to turn frowns upside down and bring additional attention to the needs of children suffering from pediatric cancer, uniting compassionate people everywhere to provide the support and love they need to make it through any tough time with a smile.
$7,748 spentof which $4,553 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $7,748.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $13k to $13k (−1%).
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.
100% of SMILES ARE FOREVER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $85 → $161.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SMILES ARE FOREVER’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.
Where its funders are
100% of SMILES ARE FOREVER'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $479 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SMILES ARE FOREVER's revenue fell 66% between 2022 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,774 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like SMILES ARE FOREVER
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SMILES ARE FOREVER: 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 SMILES ARE FOREVER?
- SMILES ARE FOREVER (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $479 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($479). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SMILES ARE FOREVER have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $479 in grants to SMILES ARE FOREVER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SMILES ARE FOREVER?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $479 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SMILES ARE FOREVER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), and the filings of 1 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