Samantha Smiles Foundation

Our Mission

Helping children with brain tumors and hydrocephalus by advancing research, diagnosis, and treatment.

Hope

By advancing the research, diagnosis, and treatments for hydrocephalus and brain tumors in children, we can deliver hope. Hope for earlier detection, for better and less invasive treatments, and for higher success rates in treatments for long-term positive impact. You can join us in this effort. Learn More

Belief

At Samantha Smiles Foundation, we are driven by the belief that we can make a difference for these children. A difference today, and a difference tomorrow. With increased research and development, new and improved diagnosis and treatment options can be developed and used to treat these children with hydrocephalus and brain tumors. Want to learn how you can help us? Learn More

Help

We can help, and so can you. At Samantha Smiles Foundation, we work to help raise funds to advance research, diagnosis, and treatment through top researchers, neurosurgeons, oncologists, and medical facilities. Every dollar you contribute through your generous donations help enable these efforts to help the children. Learn More

About Us

The Samantha Smiles Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping children with brain tumors and hydrocephalus by advancing research, diagnosis, and treatment, as well as helping uncompensated care for children with brain tumors and hydrocephalus.

The creation of the Samantha Smiles Foundation was inspired based on the real-life events that transpired for Samantha, a middle school girl. In a 24 hour period, Samantha's life went from normal to undergoing life-saving brain surgery due to a previously undiagnosed case of hydrocephalus that was caused by an inoperable brain tumor wrapped around her thalamus (also undiagnosed prior). Over the next several months, Samantha's battle and journey would take her through ten brain surgeries, several of which were emergency life-saving events, and numerous shunt failures. It was this journey with Samantha, and the encounters with so many other families and children battling brain tumors, hydrocephalus, or both, and the challenges they all faced each and every day that led to the Samantha Smiles Foundation.

Through the Samantha Smiles Foundation, we look to help advance today's research, diagnosis, and treatments in the hopes of creating a better tomorrow for other children and families faced with these challenges. A tomorrow filled with earlier diagnosis options, more reliable and less invasive treatments, and hopefully even a cure. In addition, we look to help support uncompensated care for children with brain tumors and hydrocephalus that take place through Children΄s Hospital to help ensure that every child who needs the care of Children΄s expert doctors and nurses can get it.