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SMILES CHARITY INC

SMILES CHARITY INC (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,208 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($162,112). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$391k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$253k
Net assets
$594k
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Smiles Charity Inc does

Mission

Smiles Charity is a non-profit organization dedicated to changing the world one home, one family, at a time, by providing mortgage free homes for wounded war veterans and/or first responders.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Smiles Charity main fundrasing event, Boots and Bling, is a limited attended outdoor event hosted on the Sunday before Memorial Day. Generous local and corporate businesses sponsor the event. Boots and Bling begins with a Memorial Day celebration including a color guard presentation of the US flag, the singing of our national anthem and a missing man flyover by WWII planes. Guests are able to bid on numerous donated items via the live and silent auctions, play games, purchase tickets to win prices, as well as donate to the charity. The evening concludes with an intimate concert provided by a top-notch performer. So far, Smiles Charity has provided 20 mortgage-free homes to deserving families.

    $289,560 spentof which $289,560 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $289,560.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($241k) Expenses 100 ($155k) Net assets 100 ($127k)2018 Revenue 137 ($330k) Expenses 277 ($429k) Net assets 22 ($28k)2019 Revenue 130 ($314k) Expenses 221 ($342k) Net assets 0 ($-442)2020 Revenue 64 ($154k) Expenses 47 ($72k) Net assets 97 ($123k)2021 Revenue 198 ($478k) Expenses 259 ($401k) Net assets 157 ($199k)2022 Revenue 222 ($534k) Expenses 255 ($395k) Net assets 267 ($338k)2023 Revenue 184 ($442k) Expenses 301 ($466k) Net assets 251 ($317k)2024 Revenue 200 ($483k) Expenses 292 ($451k) Net assets 536 ($679k)2025 Revenue 162 ($391k) Expenses 307 ($475k) Net assets 469 ($594k)
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Revenue (162)Expenses (307)Net assets (469)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 2020 to 2021, from $123k to $499k (+307%).

$322k
$274k
$385k
$123k
$499k
$638k
$317k
$679k
$594k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of SMILES CHARITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,334 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$86k
’17
−$99k
’18
−$28k
’19
$82k
’20
$77k
’21
$139k
’22
−$23k
’23
$31k
’24
−$85k
’25
15
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.

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Listed10109866444
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·01120200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $31k.

5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 CHARITY INC’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

SMILES CHARITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

98% 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 SMILES CHARITY INC.

64%
largest funder
86%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 51% · 2022 70% · 2023 68% — 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

50% of SMILES CHARITY INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

94% of SMILES CHARITY 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 $15k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from Texas funders.

TX
FL

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

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’22
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $238k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

SMILES CHARITY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−22% · below the median
Months of reserve15.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like SMILES CHARITY INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 2%Fundraising 28%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

78%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TX

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Questions and answers

Who funds SMILES CHARITY INC?
SMILES CHARITY INC (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,208 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($162,112). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SMILES CHARITY INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $253,208 in grants to SMILES CHARITY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SMILES CHARITY INC?
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $162,112 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SMILES CHARITY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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