Color a Smile

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
223179537
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Morristown, NJ, USA
Phone
9735409222
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Services N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$169,298
Expenses
$150,620
Assets
$68,200
Liabilities
$718

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • GERARD HARRIS (President)
  • MAUREEN DALEY (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • GERARD HARRIS (President)
  • MAUREEN DALEY (Vice President)
  • CAROL PRUETT (Secretary)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide volunteer opportunities to make people smile

What it reported doing in 2025

Color a smile provides volunteer opportunities, for people of all ages and abilities, to experience the rewards of helping people. Every month we distribute thousands of cheerful drawings to people in need of a smile. We send drawings to nursing homes, hospitals, meals on wheels programs and to our troops overseas.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 42
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 77.1%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 86.7%; rating input score 87

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 66.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 31.8% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 31.9% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 32.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 77.1% of revenue deployed · 86.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $131K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.