Smiles for Life Foundation

Analysis

Smiles for Life Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Murray, UT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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 Life Foundation reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.4m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from October 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.0m to $1.4m (-28%), an average of -6.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 2091%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Smiles for Life Foundation sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within UT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sacred Harvest Foundation ($1.4m), True Transitions ($1.4m) and Littleton Public School Foundation ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $125k. At year end it held assets of $979k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $979k. It reported 5 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.