The Smile Trust
Miami, FL · EIN 47-2964710. Reported 38 grants totalling $297,387 to 37 organizations across tax years 2022-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Smile Trust, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P85) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 37 distinct organizations, with 27% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $2,000. Half of what it reported fell between $1,500 and $5,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $80,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alianza Center | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Dade County Street Respnse | Miami, FL | $58,100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Climate and Me | $39,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Global Image Foundation | Miami, FL | $19,200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Roots Collective Corp | Miami, FL | $16,637 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Konscious Contractors | Plantation, FL | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Medicine Bowl Giving Circle | Green Mtn, NC | $5,050 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cynthia Davis LLC | Kissimmee, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dunbar Community Outreach Network Inc | Fort Myers, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Greenhaven Project Inc | Port St Lucie, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Identity Church | Daytona Beach, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| One By One Leadership Foundation Inc | Immokalee, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Afro Pride Federation Inc | Laud Lakes, FL | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hands of Love Community Development Center | West Palm Beach, FL | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Give Community Center Inc | Kissimmee, FL | $3,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Christ the King Episcopal Church Inc | Orlando, FL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Coalition of 100 Black Women - Central Florida | Orlando, FL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Freely Give Inc | Fort Myers, FL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Iglesia Episcopal Jesus De Nazaret | Orlando, FL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Miracle of Love Inc | Orlando, FL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mount Olive Development Corporation | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mt Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church of Orlando Florida Inc | Orlando, FL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| South Florida Missionary Baptist Association Inc | Fort Myers, FL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sozo Wellness Center Inc | Fort Myers, FL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Total Restoration Transformation Center Inc | Orlando, FL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| TWIC3 As Good Corp | Kissimmee, FL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Village Free-Dge | Miami, FL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Black Collective Inc | Miami, FL | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Christ International Church | Apopka, FL | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Iglesia Bautista Estrella De Belen | Hialeah, FL | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mayfaire Medical Inc | Miami, FL | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mckenzie Project Inc | Miami, FL | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Quality Life Center of Southwest Florida Inc | Fort Myers, FL | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Renacer En Vida Nueva Inc | Orlando, FL | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Struggle for Miamis Affordable and Sustainable Housing Incorporated | Miami, FL | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Miami Workers Center Inc | Miami, FL | $1,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Power U Center | Miami, FL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
0 of 37 (0%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 of 37 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 36 | $178,387 | $2,000 |
| 2024 | 2 | $119,000 | $59,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
97% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
Find more funders like The Smile Trust
We read newly filed IRS returns and email you the grantmakers whose giving matches your state and cause, as they are published. Free.
No spam, unsubscribe in one click. We never sell or share your address.
Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $2,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Florida.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Related guides
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Smile Trust's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 4300 Nw 12TH Ave, Miami, FL, 33127.
EIN 47-2964710 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
Is something here wrong about your organization? Email hello@funderscope.com and we will correct it.