Lasting Smiles Uganda

Analysis

Lasting Smiles Uganda is a registered charity in United States, based in Mooresville, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2019, 7 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, Lasting Smiles Uganda reported income of $366k and spending of $335k, spending 92% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $233k to $366k (+57%), an average of +25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 53%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Lasting Smiles Uganda sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 64th percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Caring Pathways of Carrollton ($365k), Pines of Sarasota Inc ($366k) and Second Chances Inc ($365k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 85% of the total. At year end it held assets of $127k against liabilities of $46k, net assets of $81k.