Smiles for Jake

Analysis

Smiles for Jake is a registered charity in United States, based in Brainerd, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2020, 6 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, Smiles for Jake reported income of $95k and spending of $109k, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $128k to $95k (-26%), an average of -26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 130% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Smiles for Jake sits at the 27th percentile: it is larger than about 26% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 36th percentile, and in the 33rd percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sukarya USA ($95k), Omaha Area Central Committee Inc ($95k) and National Rural Alcohol and Drug Abuse Network Inc ($95k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. At year end it held assets of $49k against liabilities of $4,867, net assets of $44k.