About Us
Our Mission
Jamie’s Smiles’ mission is to supply supplemental funding to outstanding programs that benefit special needs children, through grants and other financial means.
A Quick Background
Jameson Bates’ short 19 month life inspired his family to establish memorial and endowment funds to award at least two yearly grants to programs assisting children with special needs. The “Jamie’s Smiles Memorial Fund” and the “Jamie’s Smiles Endowment Fund” are the names of the tax deductible funds held and administered by the IRS
non-profit Four County Community Foundation as his legacy as a special needs charity. The original memorial fund was created in the spring of 2006 and in mid-2007 the endowment fund was finalized. As of July 31, 2021, we have over $169,700 in total cash and investments between our Memorial and Endowed funds and we have given away over $158,300 in grants and donations to assist programs for children with special needs. We help approximately 1,100 children with special needs and their families every year and have helped more than 16,900 people since our inception. We are pleased to announce that we have our goal as a nonprofit children's charity to raise enough endowed funds to make three yearly grants available to programs for children with special needs on a permanent and perpetual basis. We are now striving to help even more children via programs for children with special needs by working to make additional grants available or to add additional grant money to existing annually. Stay tuned!
The Invitation
Please take a look around our web site. We hope that you will find it informative about how Jamie’s Smiles came into existence as a nonprofit, what we are doing in the community as a children's charity and how you can help! Anne Frank once said, “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Please jump in and make a difference in a child's world today!
