Upward Smiles Inc

Analysis

Upward Smiles Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Festus, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Upward Smiles Inc reported income of $7.3m and spending of $3.6m, leaving 50% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.4m to $7.3m (+209%), an average of +32% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 75%. Over the whole period it spent 81% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Upward Smiles Inc sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ephraim McDowell Health Resources ($7.3m), Avenues ($7.3m) and Medical Plaza Imaging Associates LLC ($7.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 4.7% and program service revenue 94% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $852k (24% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.4m. At year end it held assets of $6.6m against liabilities of $66k, net assets of $6.5m. It reported 40 employees.