· Public charity
American Dental Association
The ADA is the professional association of dentists committed to the public's oral health, ethics, science, and professional advancement; leading a unified professional through initiatives in advocacy, education, research, and the development of standards.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $348k
- $50k–250k34 grants · $3.1M
- $250k+2 grants · $15M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADA Forsyth Institute | $14,099,473 |
| RHODE ISLAND DENTAL ASSOCIATION | $504,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI DENTAL ASSOCIATION | $186,000 |
| California Dental Association | $175,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS DENTAL SOCIETY | $170,000 |
| Connecticut State Dental Association | $167,500 |
| Alabama Dental Association | $150,000 |
| KENTUCKY DENTAL ASSOCIATION | $134,000 |
| MICHIGAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION | $128,000 |
| GEORGIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION | $118,500 |
| MAINE DENTAL ASSOCIATION | $103,500 |
| MISSOURI DENTAL ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| MINNESOTA DENTAL ASSOCIATION | $97,000 |
| OREGON DENTAL ASSOCIATION | $91,887 |
| VIRGINIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION | $90,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AFADA Forsyth Institute Inc3× · 2021–2024 · $14M · revenue +100% · 42% of their budget
- GDGEORGIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +31%
- CDCALIFORNIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +9%
Funded once
- ABADA BUSINESS INNOVATION GROUPone grant, 2022 · $2.1M
- AFADA Forsyth Instituteone grant, 2023 · $1.3M
- TCTHE CHILDRENS ORAL HEALTH INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $101k · revenue -93% · 82% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To represent and serve the members of the Society and the public by fostering quality oral health care through continuing education, open communication, and legislation.
The health of the public, to promote the art and science of dentistry and to represent the interest of the members of the profession and the public which it serves.
To promote the art and science of dentistry, to elevate professional standards, to safeguard the interests of the public, to improve the methods of dental education, and to foster fraternal relations among dentists.
To protect and advance the rights of dental students
The mission of the National Dental Board of Anesthesiology is to provide for recognition of achievement in order to promote safe and effective patient care for all qualified dentists who have an interest in anesthesiology, sedation and the…
The American Student Dental Association is a national student-run organization that protects and advances the rights, interests and welfare of dental students. It introduces students to lifelong involvement in organized dentistry and…
See mission statement and objectives attached
Organization's mission is to encourage the improvement of the oral health of the public, promote the art and science of dentistry, encourage maintenance of high standards of professional competence & practice; represent interest of members…
Education and promotion of dentistry.
Delivery of oral healthcare. the corporation operates principally for the benefit of the school of dentistry of vcu by supporting the education, research, service and care mission of vcu.
To operate for the advancement of dental health care within the county of orange, to assist in the prevention and control of dental disease and to improve access to comprehensive dental care for those in need.
Minnesota dental foundation's mission is to initiate and support programs that provide dental services to underserved populations and communities; encourage and support volunteerism within the profession; and promote careers in dentistry,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York State Dental Association and the most unlike its peers is Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 59 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
92 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 92 of the 107 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ADA Forsyth Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ADA Foundation ↗
- Who funds Washington State Dental Association ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS DENTAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO DENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA DENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MAINE DENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON DENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND DENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Nevada Dental Association ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT STATE DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA DENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND STATE DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI DENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY DENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VERMONT STATE DENTAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COLEGIO DE CIRUJANOS DENTISTAS DE PUERTO RICO ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE STATE DENTAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA DENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Idaho State Dental Association ↗
- Who funds HAWAII DENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE DENTAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds IOWA DENTAL ASSOCIATION-GENERAL FUND ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION ATTN JILL KELLY ↗
- Who funds DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STATE DENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA DENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH DENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS DENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Colorado Dental Association ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Patterson Foundation · Henry Schein Cares Foundation Inc · ADA Foundation · CareQuest Institute for Oral Health Inc · Carequest Foundation Inc · Delta Dental Community Care Foundation · Delta Dental Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Dental Association funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hugo W Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger Inc — 39% of income from government
- Ada Forsyth Institute Inc — 38% of income from government
- Zufall Health Center Inc — 32% of income from government
- Vermont State Dental Society — 9% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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