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THE SMILE TRUST

THE SMILE TRUST (Florida) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,029,061 to it, the largest being SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC ($1,905,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.2M
Funders on record
32
Grants received
$5.0M
Net assets
$1.1M
10/32 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 75%
01What it does

What The Smile Trust does

Mission

The Smile Trust has taken on the task to provide resources, education, jobs, and housing to combat poverty and homelessness.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Smile DayWe provide hot meals in Miami and Atlanta. We also provide clean clothing, haircuts, hair styles, toiletry bags, and fresh showers to those who are unsheltered and underserved.

    $377,989 spent
    75% of program spending
  2. Community Emergency Operations Center We serve the most vulnerable populations food, water and assist with restoring resilience after man-made and natural disasters. Our goal is to ensure we have all the necessary tools and protocols in place when disaster strikes via emergency mobilization with a rapid response.

    $46,303 spent
    9% of program spending
  3. SmileHavenEstablishing and planning an Agrihood while actively seeking the input of community residents, elders, and leaders is innovative as we seek to minimize the devastating effects of food deserts and food insecurity within the neighborhoods.

    $24,819 spent
    5% of program spending
  4. Program Service Expenses 56,640, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Rent GapThe Rent Gap program assists those within marginalized communities who need assistance with finding and securing affordable housing. Program Service Expenses 0, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Smile Fuh MeWe want to see the world as they see it share it throughout our community by giving cameras to unsheltered individuals and asking them to capture their world. Program Service Expenses 0, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Ready Se Prep

    $56,640 spent
    11% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $505,751.

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 ($23k) Expenses 100 ($17k) Net assets 100 ($6k)2018 Revenue 293 ($69k) Expenses 279 ($49k) Net assets 434 ($26k)2019 Revenue 597 ($140k) Expenses 818 ($142k) Net assets 398 ($24k)2020 Revenue 829 ($194k) Expenses 541 ($94k) Net assets 2054 ($124k)2021 Revenue 2715 ($636k) Expenses 2920 ($507k) Net assets 3849 ($233k)2022 Revenue 5723 ($1.3M) Expenses 6050 ($1.1M) Net assets 8638 ($523k)2023 Revenue 3224 ($755k) Expenses 7150 ($1.2M) Net assets 1261 ($76k)2024 Revenue 10048 ($2.4M) Expenses 8746 ($1.5M) Net assets 17085 ($1.0M)2025 Revenue 9321 ($2.2M) Expenses 10297 ($1.8M) Net assets 17411 ($1.1M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (9321)Expenses (10297)Net assets (17411)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 $122k to $1.1M (+773%).

$6k
$26k
$24k
$124k
$233k
$523k
$122k
$1.1M
$1.1M
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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

95% of THE SMILE TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’17
$20k
’18
−$2k
’19
$100k
’20
$129k
’21
$290k
’22
−$486k
’23
$835k
’24
$396k
’25
5.7
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.

20212022202320242025
Listed63334
Joined·+0+0+0+1
No longer listed·3000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $8k → $373k.

11 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 THE SMILE TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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

THE SMILE TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% 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

95% 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 THE SMILE TRUST.

38%
largest funder
60%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 48% · 2020 53% · 2021 60% · 2022 25% · 2023 27% — 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

43% of THE SMILE TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

THE SMILE TRUST draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 9 states in all.

NY
CA
VA
AZ
AR
NC
DC
GA
FL

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

’19
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

THE SMILE TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)76% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like THE SMILE TRUST

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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

28% of spending goes to programs.

Program 28%Management 72%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
0%
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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE SMILE TRUST?
THE SMILE TRUST (Florida) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,029,061 to it, the largest being SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC ($1,905,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE SMILE TRUST have?
IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $5,029,061 in grants to THE SMILE TRUST, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE SMILE TRUST?
SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,905,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE SMILE TRUST find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 32 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