Smile
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911823228
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Spokane, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5094488886
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $40,607
- Expenses
- $162,482
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ted Toribara (President)
- Susan Toribara (Vice President)
- Tim Hunter (Vice President)
- Christie Toribara (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Ted Toribara (President)
- Susan Toribara (Vice President)
- Tim Hunter (Vice President)
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
The mission of SMILE is to 1) provide adults, parents, teachers and medical professionals with the tools, education and resources they need to effectively teach and demonstrate critical life skills and 2) provide children and young people with the life skills they need to be aware of the consequences and alternatives of their actions, thus empowering them to make self-enhancing choices. We accomplish our mission through education that includes, but not limited to, development and promotions of life-skills programs, building resiliency, healthy solutions and awareness/prevention programs. We develop educations materials and work with existing programs.
What it reported doing in 2025
Educational and Anti-bullying grants awarded to various school districts and other forums
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 6
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 8.4%; rating input score 8
- Program expense ratio: 2.1%; rating input score 2
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -300.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -16% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -24.7% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 8.4% of revenue deployed · 2.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 8/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.