Share a Smile

Analysis

Share a Smile is a registered charity in United States, based in Jersey City, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Share a Smile reported income of $84k and spending of $41k, leaving 51% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $274k to $84k (-69%), an average of -26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 83%. Over the whole period it spent 54% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Share a Smile sits at the 28th percentile: it is larger than about 28% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 32nd percentile, and in the 40th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Low Income Housing Coalition of Alabama ($84k), Ltlov ($84k) and Stu and the Kids Inc ($84k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 69% of the total. At year end it held assets of $748k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $748k.