How much did American Dental Association grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of American Dental Association’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

richardsonlow incometeambehalfregulatoryhostingcare oda

2019

teambehalfregulatoryhostingcare odaaccess careprofession advance

2020

educationalalliancesscholarships studentsaccesspopulations

2021

veteransadvancingteambehalfregulatoryhostingcare oda

2022

veteransadvancingteambehalfregulatoryhostingcare oda

2023

indian nativeeffectivequitlinesnative advocacyadvocacy indianalliancesaccess

2024

chartervirgin islandsfield dentistrymaterialsgoodalliancesleader

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 59 grants

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

$56,835

Median grant

States reached

$287M

Total assets

Largest grants

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

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$47M · 63 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$47M

$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%

+16%

Still filing today

95%

59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyInternationalScience & TechOther

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

TF
THE FORSYTH INSTITUTE
3× · 2021–2024 · $14M · revenue +83% · 42% of their budget
WS
WASHINGTON STATE DENTAL ASSOCIATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +5%
GD
GEORGIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +60%

Funded once

AB
ADA BUSINESS INNOVATION GROUP
one grant, 2022 · $2.1M
AF
ADA Forsyth Institute
one grant, 2023 · $1.3M
TC
The Children's Oral Health Institute
one grant, 2023 · $101k · revenue +22% · 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.

04Your field

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.

American Dental Education Association

To lead individuals and institutions in the improvement of oral health.

Education

Missouri Dental Association

The missouri dental association is a unified organization of individual members committed to the highest quality care for the public. it is the model resource for advocacy, education, communication, information, and fellowship.

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American Association for Dental Oral

Drive dental, oral, and craniofacial research to advance health and well-being.

Health

American Association of Dental Boards

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to maintain and improve the quality of accreditation of dental examiners and safeguard the public.

—

South Dakota Dental Foundation

The mission of the south dakota dental foundation is to improve the oral health of all south dakotans by educating dental professionals; by educating the public; by aiding in developing the future dental workforce; and, by serving…

Health

Northern Virginia Dental Society

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.

—

American Student Dental Association

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…

Education

American Student Dental Association

To advance and protect the rights of dental students

Education

Chicago Dental Society

The object of this society shall be to encourage the improvement of 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.

Community Improvement

American Dental Hygienists' Association

To unite and empower dental hygienists to enhance the public's oral and overall health.

—

Career Design in Dentistry

Education

Delta Dental of South Dakota

Dedicated to advancing and promoting the improvement of oral health.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Dental Association and the most unlike its peers is La Clinica Tepeyac. 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%2/107

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,458

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.

05the grantee network

90 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

89/90

Grantees still filing

54/90

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$23,031,239Philanthropy$14,255,299Health$10,847,253Community Improvement$2,130,510Education$591,262Arts & Culture$199,111International$70,000

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.

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.

Patterson FoundationMN19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patterson Foundation · ADA Foundation · Henry Schein Cares Foundation Inc · CareQuest Institute for Oral Health Inc · Delta Dental of Missouri · 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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

12get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: The Children's Oral Health Institute.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 522048036 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on The Children's Oral Health Institute, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 82% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to American Dental Association?

Find your warmest path to American Dental Association through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

American Dental Association

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

90 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to American Dental Association?

More from the funding graph

American Dental Association

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

90 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to American Dental Association?

More from the funding graph