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American Dental Education Association

To develop a future-ready oral health workforce prepared to improve the health of all people and communities through leadership, education and collaboration.

$394k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$68k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Health$1.6MEducation$246kScience & Tech$99kCivil Rights$6k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $96,470, the rows itemized in this filing. The $394,291 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $297,821 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
$7,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION$67,825
DREXEL UNIVERSITY$10,000
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$7,500
STUDENT NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION$6,000
CENTER FOR ORAL HEALTH$5,145
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $5k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%STUDENT NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION: $6k → 11%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF PACIFIC: $15k → 10%THE DIVERSE DENTAL SOCIETY: $8k → 11%CENTER FOR ORAL HEALTH: $5k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC: $21k → 12%WESTERN UNIV OF HEALTH & SCI: $8k → 14%HISPANIC DENTAL ASSOCIATION: $8k → 9%NYU - DEPT OF POPULATION HEALTH: $12k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $15k → 16%National Academy of Sciences: $50k → 14%CAPGENUS LLC: $10k → 15%THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $15k → 15%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $6k → 14%University of MO-KS City of School Dentistry: $18k → 15%PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY: $15k → 14%EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 20%University of Washington: $25k → 9%LSU HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $22k → 23%Tufts University: $25k → 16%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $12k → 17%WILLIAM J GIES FOUNDATION: $988k → 14%STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $9k → 15%TRUSTEE OF COLUMBIA UNIV OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $14k → 17%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $40k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $11k → 17%William J Gies Foundation: $18k → 14%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE: $16k → 14%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $8k → 14%WILLIAM J GIES FOUNDATION: $18k → 14%WILLIAM J GIES FOUNDATION: $18k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
CT
CA
MO
TN
NC
DC
LA
TX
FL
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 5 repeat orgs$390k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
21

Total granted

$1.5M
$369k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthScience & 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

  • AD
    American Dental Association
    4× · 2020–2025 · $281k · revenue +91%
  • NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    4× · 2017–2025 · $114k · revenue +15%
  • UO
    University of the Pacific
    2× · 2019–2024 · $36k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
    one grant, 2017 · $75k
  • EC
    EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • Trustees of Tufts Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +50%
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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology Inc

The organization provides peer reviewed scientific research and education in the field of biological dentistry.

Health
5
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
11
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of the Pacific; the most unlike its peers is Diverse Dental Society. 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 31 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE WILLIAM J GIES FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF DENTISTRY OF THE ADEA: $1,041,779 · OtherTHE WILLIAM J GIES FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF DENTISTRY OF THE ADEAAmerican Dental Association: $280,825 · OtherAmerican Dental AssociationUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $75,000 · Other+14 more: $177,879 · Other+14 moreUniversity of the Pacific: $35,993 · EducationUniversity…Trustees of Tufts College: $25,000 · EducationTrustees o…UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…New York University: $22,985 · EducationNew York U…MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $15,000 · EducationMEHARRY ME…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $14,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTE…PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationPACIFIC UN…DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationDREXEL UNI…+1 more: $5,308 · EducationNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $113,750 · Science & TechLSU HEALTH FOUNDATION NEW ORLEANS: $21,986 · HealthHispanic Dental Association: $7,500 · HealthDiverse Dental Society: $7,500 · Health
Other$1,575,483Education$178,286Science & Tech$113,750Health$36,986

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE WILLIAM J GIES FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF DENTISTRY OF THE ADEA: $1,041,779 over 4y, 77% of budgetAmerican Dental Association: $280,825 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $113,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of the Pacific: $35,993 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $22,985 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLSU HEALTH FOUNDATION NEW ORLEANS: $21,986 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHispanic Dental Association: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDiverse Dental Society: $7,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $5,308 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ORAL HEALTH: $5,145 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Pacific University: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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