About Us

Financial Accountability

At Operation Smile, we honour the trust you place in us to deliver safe, effective surgery and cleft care. From small donations to major gifts, every partner helps transform lives, one smile at a time.

Speech therapists in Ghana receive training from Operation Smile to support children and families in remote and vulnerable communities.

Our Commitment to You

We are dedicated to being excellent stewards of your contributions, ensuring that funds are allocated to programs delivering the highest quality care to individuals with cleft and other facial and dental differences. Most importantly, we pride ourselves on following the highest standards of accountability, effectiveness and efficiency.

Honouring Dedication

As one of the largest volunteer-driven surgical organizations, Operation Smile celebrates the thousands of volunteers and hundreds of employees around the world who diligently work to extend our impact. Our heartfelt gratitude also goes out to the families of employees and volunteers whose sacrifices enable us to change lives.

Surgeon´s Team Nellyveth Guilamo (DR), Michael Bezhuly (CAN), Art Rideout (CAN), Jonathan Armas (SPAIN), Clarydania Bonilla (DR), Miguel Fariña (PARAGUAY), Leif Sigurdson (CAN), Domingo Abreu (DR) Operation Smile Mission to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, March 9-19, 2019 at Hospital Policia Nacional, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Candace Mielnichuk, nurse, Canada on the third day of surgery for the Women in Medicine, Inspiring a Generation Operation Smile Mission at Hospital Al Farabi in Oujda, Morocco

Program Investments

While Operation Smile is most known for performing high quality cleft surgeries, we’re most proud of creating health that lasts.

Children deserve comprehensive care that enables them to thrive, not just survive! That’s why we invest in their future by providing additional support like integrated pediatrics, nutrition, speech therapy, ENT, psychosocial, oral health, and pre- and post-surgical care.

We are on a mission to exponentially multiply the number of children that can receive cleft care. By educating and training a new, local 5-person specialty surgical team (surgeon, nurse, pediatrician, anesthesiologist, biomed tech), we can repair 72 more cleft conditions and provide 500 additional essential surgeries per year. This builds sustainable solutions for local communities that improves health infrastructure and allows children to receive care closer to where they live.

Our partners’ contributions are hard at work providing kids with equitable access to the highest standard of medical care, no matter where they live. That’s a lot of good!

Program Investments in Fiscal Year 2024

  • Surgical Programs 45%
  • Comprehensive Care Centres including nutrition, speech, dentistry and other pre- and post-operative care programs 39%
  • Training & Education/Research 16%

3 Year Program Investment Growth

Bar graph indicating the following: 2024 = $12,439,512 2023 = $11,220,420 2022 = $8,993,997
Christopher Feliz Lebron, 4 years old, UCL, Home Sabana Perdida, Santo Domingo, Visiting the Care Center since he was 2 years old.
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Financial Statements

Operation Smile is committed to upholding donors’ rights and maintaining full transparency. For this reason, we provide access to our independently audited financial statements, administrative costs, and funding details online for your review.

Additionally, you can explore our annual Impact Reports and bi-annual Smile Reports to see how your donations are used to create health that lasts.

Operation Smile Canada Foundation (OSCF) is a registered Canadian charity (Registration Number 84064 3605 RR0001). We comply with all of Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) annual reporting requirements for charities.

Visit CRA’s website to view our profile and consult financial documents and filings.

Individuals hold up their stethoscopes for a photo.
Leana Onjanirina 3.5 years old, UCL, from Tsiroanomandidy