The Kindersmile Foundation

Analysis

The Kindersmile Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Bloomfield, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2008, 18 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, The Kindersmile Foundation reported income of $3.2m and spending of $2.8m, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $3.2m (+165%), an average of +28% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Kindersmile Foundation sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 91st percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Helping Hands Hawaii ($3.2m), House of Hope of the Pee Dee ($3.2m) and Cambridge Community Center ($3.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 43% and program service revenue 56% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $683k (24% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $3.3m against liabilities of $1.5m, net assets of $1.7m. It reported 57 employees.