How much does American Dental Association give?

American Dental Association reported 59 grants totaling $18,275,917 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 55 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does American Dental Association fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (93%), Community Improvement (4%), Social Science (2%).

Who are American Dental Association's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: ADA Forsyth Institute Inc ($14M), ADA Foundation ($8.2M), Ada Business Innovation Group ($2.1M).

Does American Dental Association fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as American Dental Association?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patterson Foundation, Henry Schein Cares Foundation Inc, ADA Foundation.

Where is American Dental Association based?

American Dental Association is based in IL.

American Dental Association

American Dental Association at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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.

$18M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$14M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$47MCommunity Improvement$2.2MSocial Science$1.3MEducation$110kInternational$80kArts & Culture$45kPhilanthropy$40kHousing & Shelter$20kOther$0

02FY2024 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$47M

$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%

+6%

Still filing today

97%

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

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

AF
ADA Forsyth Institute Inc
3× · 2021–2024 · $14M · revenue +100% · 42% of their budget
GD
GEORGIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +31%
CD
CALIFORNIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +9%

Funded once

AB
ADA BUSINESS INNOVATION GROUP
one grant, 2022 · $2.1M
AF
ADA Forsyth Institute
one grant, 2023 · $1.3M
TC
THE CHILDRENS ORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE
one grant, 2023 · $101k · revenue -93% · 82% of their budget

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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.

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Chicago Dental Society

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

New York County Dental Society

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.

—

American Student Dental Association

To protect and advance the rights of dental students

Education

National Dental Board of Anesthesiology

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…

Community Improvement

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

International College of Dentists

See mission statement and objectives attached

Health

North Carolina Dental Society

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…

Community Improvement

Central Arizona Dental Society

Education and promotion of dentistry.

—

Dentistry Vcu

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.

—

Orange County Dental Society Dental Health Foundation

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.

Health

Minnesota Dental Foundation

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,…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York State Dental Association; 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.

04the grantee network

92 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

90/92

Grantees still filing

54/92

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Patterson FoundationMN19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Dental Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Dental Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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By state

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