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Association of Dental Support Organizations

Our mission is to support adso member companies and their teams through research, education and advocacy; enabling them to foster innovation, collaboration and a vibrant market where dso-supported dentists can provide quality oral health care to their patients and to those in the underserved communities.

$34k
Granted FY2023
1
Itemized grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$5k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$5,250
Largest grant, FY2023
$5,250
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$1.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Association of Dental Support Organizations funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Public BenefitCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$5k100%
FY20222$130k100%
FY20213$70k33%
FY20203$56k100%
FY20192$12kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Public Benefit$273k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Massachusetts Dental Care Providers for Better Dental Benefits$110,0001n/a
Carolina Leadership Coalition Inc$50,00025%
Carolina Partnership for Reform Inc$50,00024%
Restore Nc Inc$20,00018%
Md Democratic Senatorial Caucus$20,0001n/a
Citizens for Bill Ferguson$6,0001n/a
Citizens for Saab$5,5001n/a
Scutari for Senate$5,2501n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaDC13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Association of Dental Support Organizations

How much does Association of Dental Support Organizations give?
Association of Dental Support Organizations reported 1 itemized grants totaling $5,250, out of $33,750 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Association of Dental Support Organizations fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2023, its largest causes are Public Benefit (100%).
Who are Association of Dental Support Organizations's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2023: Massachusetts Dental Care Providers for Better Dental Benefits ($110k), Carolina Leadership Coalition Inc ($50k), Carolina Partnership for Reform Inc ($50k).
Does Association of Dental Support Organizations fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Association of Dental Support Organizations?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.
Where is Association of Dental Support Organizations based?
Association of Dental Support Organizations is based in DC.

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 9 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $23k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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