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Colorado Dental Service Inc

Colorado dental services (dba delta dental of colorado) was formed as a 501(c)(4) organization in order to improve the oral health of the communities it serves.

$4.4M
Granted FY2020
32
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$3.8M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.

Health$23MHuman Services$254kPhilanthropy$170kEducation$150kFood & Nutrition$141kCommunity Improvement$135kArts & Culture$109kAnimals$105kOther$0
02FY2020 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 32 grants below total $4,259,908 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,411,766 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $151,858 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $349k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $133k
  • $250k+1 grant · $3.8M
$14,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DELTA DENTAL OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$3,750,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$75,000
MILE HIGH UNITED WAY$58,150
SMILEMAKERS INC$20,816
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$20,200
METRO CARING$20,150
COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$20,000
BROTHER JEFF'S CULTURAL CENTER$20,000
NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS$20,000
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION INC$17,000
CARE AND SHARE INC$15,263
DENVER RESCUE MISSION$15,258
DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATN$15,050
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA$15,000
CRAIG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$14,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $177k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $10k → 5%GRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH: $5k → 11%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $10k → 5%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $17k → 8%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $8k → 8%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $8k → 8%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $15k → 12%BRIGHT BEGINNINGS: $5k → 12%SO ALL MAY EAT INC: $10k → 12%BRIGHT BEGINNINGS: $5k → 12%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DENVER: $10k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $29k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $10k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $5k → 12%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC: $5k → 12%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

IL
NY
MA
CA
CO
VA
KS
SC
DC
TX
FL

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 16% of Colorado Dental Service Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Colorado Dental Service Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$23M · 46 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2020, 31 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
56

Total granted

$23M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+37%

Still filing today

96%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $226k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $235k · revenue +33%
  • CC
    COLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN
    4× · 2017–2020 · $192k · revenue +55%
  • LC
    LA CLINICA TEPEYAC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $173k · revenue +286%

Funded once

  • SD
    SPRINGROCK DENTAL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $650k · revenue -26% · 64% of their budget
  • TC
    THE COLORADO MISSION OF MERCYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +201%
  • American Diabetes Association
    one grant, 2019 · $18k · revenue +4%

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.

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Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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2
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
3
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
4
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.

Health
5
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health
6
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
7
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
8
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
9
Colorado Digital Health

Prime health advances health justice, equity, access quality and cost through innovation, collaboration, and community building.

Health
10
Colorado Bar Association

To advance the science of jurisprudence, secure the more efficient administration of justice, encourage the adoption of proper legislation, advocate thorough and continuing legal education, uphold the honor and integrity of the bar,…

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11
Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.

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12
Colorado Press Association

Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Coalition for the Homeless and the most unlike its peers is Ima Foundation. 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 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%3%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr12%29%35–55yr15%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr17%93%20–35yr12%3%35–55yr15%4%55yr+

The field is 23% 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 — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%4/124
the rest of the field
14%
2,088/15,072

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

118 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. 118 of the 124 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/118
Grantees still filing
92/118
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DELTA DENTAL PLAN OF COLORADO FOUNDATION INC — $20,940,000 · PhilanthropyDELTA DENTAL PLAN OF COLORADO FOUNDATION INC+8 more — $214,940 · PhilanthropySPRINGROCK DENTAL INC — $650,000 · OtherCOLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN — $192,000 · Other+52 more — $624,189 · OtherAmerican Heart Association Inc — $234,650 · HealthLA CLINICA TEPEYAC — $173,000 · HealthCENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRESS — $97,500 · HealthCraig Hospital Foundation — $40,750 · HealthDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK — $32,500 · HealthNational Kidney Foundation Inc — $32,500 · Health+23 more — $245,750 · HealthFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO — $39,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT WORTHMORE — $32,100 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC — $27,500 · Human ServicesA PRECIOUS CHILD INC — $20,257 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $20,000 · Human ServicesColorado Coalition for the Homeless — $20,000 · Human ServicesDENVER RESCUE MISSION — $15,258 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN DENVER — $10,000 · Human ServicesSUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesBRIGHT BEGINNINGS — $10,000 · Human ServicesSO ALL MAY EAT INC — $10,000 · Human Services+2 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $32,200 · EducationColorado Succeeds — $27,264 · EducationFood For Thought Denver — $25,350 · EducationC I R C L E — $15,000 · EducationCOLFAX MARATHON PARTNERSHIP INC — $10,000 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationVALLEY SETTLEMENT — $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationPARENT POSSIBLE — $5,000 · EducationDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $60,000 · AnimalsDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $39,600 · AnimalsFOOTHILLS ART CENTER INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $12,438 · Arts & CultureDenver Actors Fund Inc — $12,277 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS — $5,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO BALLET — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$21,154,940Other$1,466,189Health$856,650Human Services$224,115Education$144,814Animals$99,600Arts & Culture$89,715

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDELTA DENTAL PLAN OF COLORADO FOUNDATION INC — $20,940,000 over 4y, 86% of budgetSPRINGROCK DENTAL INC — $650,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $234,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN — $192,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetLA CLINICA TEPEYAC — $173,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $139,690 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRESS — $97,500 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation — $40,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $39,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO — $39,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK — $32,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc — $32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $32,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT WORTHMORE — $32,100 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMETRO CARING — $30,650 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC — $27,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetColorado Succeeds — $27,264 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCare and Share Inc — $25,263 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOral Health Colorado — $22,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCOLORADO WOMENS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $21,925 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetDENVER METRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $21,050 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — $21,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTransplant Foundation Inc — $20,600 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetGREATER COLORADO COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $20,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC — $20,257 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $20,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS IN COLORADO INC — $20,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetDENVER POST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFOOTHILLS ART CENTER INC — $20,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTHE COLORADO MISSION OF MERCY — $20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBROTHER JEFF'S CULTURAL CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetColorado Coalition for the Homeless — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO — $18,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association — $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FKA CO ASSN OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY — $16,450 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE — $15,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION — $15,258 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetC I R C L E — $15,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEWSED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP INC — $14,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Rose Community Founda…The Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Mile High United Way …The Colorado TrustCaring for Colorado F…El Pomar FoundationBoettcher FoundationDelta Dental Plan of …Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…Daniels Fund
Colorado Gives FoundationCO83.1× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Colorado Trust · Caring for Colorado Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation Inc · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Daniels Fund

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 Colorado Dental Service Inc 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.

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no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 124 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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