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Delta Dental Fund

Delta Dental Fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.

$5.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
83
Itemized grants FY2024
66
Organizations funded FY2023
41%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$4.6M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$444,500
Organizations funded a year
22 to 68
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$139M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 41% of the organizations Delta Dental Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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
FY2024still arriving82$4.4M41%
FY202366$6.0M41%
FY202260$6.0M52%
FY202168$3.2M62%
FY202049$2.7M67%
FY201928$4.8M43%
FY201828$3.1M71%
FY201722$1.6Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$24MEducation$3.3MHuman Services$857kPhilanthropy$519kScience & Tech$508kPublic Safety & Disaster$474kCommunity Improvement$455kArts & Culture$431kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CO
MO
VA
KS
NC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Michigan Dep of Health & Human Services$3,456,8248n/a
The Ohio State University$2,578,6134n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan$2,473,0158n/a
Indiana University Foundation$2,025,00020%
Harold W McMillen Center for Health Education Inc$1,542,384726%
Case Western Reserve University$1,016,00030%
University of Detroit Mercy$750,30560%
Covenant Community Care Inc$724,99543%
Health Emergency Lifeline Programs$686,20437%
Impression 5 Science Center$507,564716%
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All grantees of Delta Dental Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Michigan Dep of Health & Human Services$3,456,8248n/a
The Ohio State University$2,578,6134n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan$2,473,0158n/a
Indiana University Foundation$2,025,00020%
Harold W McMillen Center for Health Education Inc$1,542,384726%
Case Western Reserve University$1,016,00030%
University of Detroit Mercy$750,30560%
Covenant Community Care Inc$724,99543%
Health Emergency Lifeline Programs$686,20437%
Impression 5 Science Center$507,564716%
American Dental Hygienist Association Institute for Oral Health$444,5001n/a
Catholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties$434,148113%
Sparrow Foundation$410,00028%
Indiana University School of Medicine$399,0026n/a
Neighborhood Health Clinics Inc$374,24432%
State of Ohio$350,0005n/a
City of Cincinnati$344,5842n/a
Michigan Primary Care Association$340,00031%
Catherines Health Center$334,93233%
Great Lakes Bay$310,0002n/a
My Community Dental Centers Inc$304,96060%
Detroit Public Schools Foundation$300,00018%
United Way of Northwest Michigan$300,000123%
Hnc Living Foundation$275,000313%
Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum$260,00027%
Healthsource of Ohio Inc$260,00030%
The Wellness Plan Medical Centers$255,60021%
Ottawa County Administrator's Office$251,5006n/a
Northeast Ohio Medical University Foundation$250,00013%
United We Smile$219,043266%
The Cincinnati Dental Society's Oral Health Foundation$211,350228%
Greater Schools$211,09312%
City of Detroit$206,0001n/a
Pope Francis Center$205,99611%
American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry$205,228138%
Mount Clemens Regional Health Care Foundation$200,000112%
Wayne County Healthy Communities$200,00015%
Great Lakes Bay Health Centers$200,00010%
St Vincent Catholic Charities$187,865112%
The Viscardi Center Inc$186,10023%
High Point University$180,00010%
Smiles on Wheels$179,81964%
Mobilemed1 Inc Dba Medworks$175,000615%
National Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped$155,0008n/a
Neighborhood Health Care Inc$152,57511%
Echo Community Health Care Inc$151,50921%
Shawnee State University Foundation$150,00022%
America's Toothfairy National Children's Oral Health Foundation$150,00026%
Hope Medical Clinic Inc$141,78312%
Dr Gary Burnstein Community Health Clinic$139,65024%
The Cincinnati Health Network Inc$138,25312%
Teamsmile Inc$134,00026%
Health Department of Northwest Michigan$132,9594n/a
Thunder Bay Community Health Servic$128,00031%
Ohio State University Foundation$127,91530%
Cherry Street Services Foundation$126,000121%
Flint Cultural Center Corporation$125,00010%
The University of Cincinnati Foundation$110,00020%
Ingham County$110,0002n/a
Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc$108,5352n/a
Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron$102,61030%
The Healthcare Connection Inc$100,00011%
Butler County Community Health Consortium Inc$100,00010%
University Hospitals Health System Inc$100,0001n/a
Reach Out and Read Inc$95,18521%
Greene County Public Health$93,1312n/a
Lansing Board Water and Light$89,4651n/a
Medicaid Medicare Chip Services Dental Association$87,300210%
Warren Arts and Education Foundation Inc$85,00034%
North Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc$80,00012%
Talbert House Health Center$80,00011%
Dames and Knights of the Order of Malta Medical and Dental Clinic Of$75,000116%
Flint Institute of Science & History$75,000172%
Five Rivers Health Centers$73,60030%
Northern Michigan University$71,5001n/a
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation of Cincinnati Inc$70,00020%
Porter-Starke Services Inc$70,00020%
Third Street Community Clinic$69,50030%
Atrium Health Foundation$68,20820%
Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers Inc$67,50070%
Communities in Schools of Michigan$67,50011%
Oakland Integrated Healthcare Network$66,00020%
The Boundless Foundation Inc$64,00011%
Health Intervention Services$62,04951%
North Carolina Dental Society Foundation Inc$59,95017%
Ironton and Lawrence County Area Community Action Organization$57,61820%
The Greater Detroit Health Transition Company$56,54314%
Dhd #2$54,4001n/a
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation$54,35811%
University of Indianapolis$54,30810%
Youngstown State University$53,9881n/a
Accessia Health$50,00010%
Special Olympics Inc$50,00010%
Indiana Primary Health Care Assoc Inc$50,00012%
Oral Health America Americas Fund for Dental Health BK 20-04264$50,00013%
Ohio Association of Community Health Centers$50,00011%
Institute for Exceptional Care$49,98014%
Healthlinc Inc$49,05830%
Van Buren Cass County District Health$48,8191n/a
City of Ironwood$47,7001n/a
National Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped$47,5005n/a
The Davies Project for Mid Michigan Children$45,00036%
National Network for Oral Health Access$45,00041%
East Carolina University$42,2003n/a
Rocking Horse Children's Health Center$41,37720%
Community Care Clinic of Rowan County Inc$41,27560%
East Carolina University Medical & Health Sciences Foundation Inc$37,80320%
Cincinnati Museum Center$37,58230%
McLaren Greater Lansing Foundation$37,58122%
The North Carolina Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Inc$35,875212%
Central Nine Career Center$35,0001n/a
Mel Trotter Ministries$34,31210%
The Centers for Families and Children$32,71020%
Signature Health Inc$32,20020%
Dhd #10$31,9991n/a
Matthew 25 Inc$31,81520%
500 Festival Inc$30,00030%
Old Newsboys Goodfellow Fund of Detroit Michigan$30,00031%
The Flint Children's Museum$30,00015%
Hope Network$30,0003n/a
InterCare Community Health Network$30,00020%
Lansing Comm College$28,5751n/a
Raleigh-Wake County Dental Society Community Dental Health Program Inc$28,50032%
Wake Forest University Health Sciences$26,00030%
Team Maureen Inc$26,000129%
Beaver Island Rural Health Center$25,00014%
Physicians Care Connection$25,00011%
Care Free Medical Inc$25,00012%
Michigan Dental Hygienists' Assoc$25,000137%
Indiana Dental Association Foundation for Dental Health Inc$25,000125%
Child and Family Charities$25,00010%
Matrix Human Services$22,78320%
Trustees of Purdue University$22,0001n/a
Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan$20,00010%
Refugee Community Partnership Inc$20,00021%
Indiana Health Centers Inc$20,00010%
85 Hope Inc$20,00023%
Care Alliance$20,00020%
Dental Clinics North$20,00020%
Faith Mission Inc$20,00010%
Healthnet Inc$20,00010%
Health and Hospital Corporation$20,0001n/a
Christ Church Cranbrook$20,0002n/a
Holland Free Health Clinic$18,81315%
Lake County Free Clinic Inc$18,50012%
Muskingum Valley Health Center$18,00020%
Healthy Smiles of Indiana Inc$16,00017%
Northwest Michigan Health Services Inc$15,00010%
Franciscan Health Foundation Inc$15,00010%
Bashor Home of The United Methodist Church Inc$14,58510%
Evansville Christian Life Center Inc$10,4001n/a
Capital Area Community Services Inc$10,28610%
Henry Ford Health System$10,00010%
Upper Great Lakes Family Health Center$10,00010%
Columbus Neighborhood Health Center Inc$10,00010%
Hygiene on Wheels$10,0001n/a
Alcona Citizens for Health Inc$10,00010%
Onslow Community Outreach Inc$10,00010%
Access Dental Care Inc$10,00010%
Community Action Agency of Columbiana County Inc$10,00010%
Charlotte Community Health Clinic Inc$10,00010%
Forgotten Harvest Inc$10,00010%
County of Carteret$10,0001n/a
Local Start Dental Inc$10,00010%
Corewell Health Foundation West Michigan$10,0001n/a
Aya Youth Collective$10,00011%
Columbus Clinic Host Group$10,0001n/a
New Smiles New Beginnings Inc$10,0001n/a
Ohio Hills Health Services$10,00010%
Detroit Central City Cmh Inc$10,00010%
Community Free Clinic Inc$10,00010%
Mid-Ohio Foodbank$10,00010%
Dental Center of Northwest Ohio$10,00010%
High Point Regional Health Foundation$10,00010%
Community Care Clinic of Dare$10,00011%
Summa Health$10,00010%
Upcap Services Inc$10,00010%
Presbyterian Villages of Michigan Foundation$10,00010%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$10,0001n/a
Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland Ohio$10,00010%
Dental Foundation of North Carolina Inc$10,00010%
Toledo Northwestern Ohio Food Bank$10,00010%
Lower Lights Christian Health Center$10,00010%
Cherry Street Services Inc$10,00010%
Appalachian Mountain Community Health Centers$10,00010%
Lorain County Health & Dentistry$10,00010%
Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc$10,00011%
Greater Lansing Food Bank$10,00010%
Jane Pauley Community Health Center Inc$10,00010%
Community Action Committee of Pike County Inc$10,00010%
Wilkes Dental Consortium Incorporated$10,00011%
Ohio Chapter American Academy of Pediatrics$10,00011%
Health Net of West Michigan$10,00010%
Shelter Association of Washtenaw County$10,00010%
Center for Family Health$10,00010%
United Hands$10,00012%
High Country Community Health Inc$10,00010%
Valley Area Agency on Aging$10,00010%
Everybody Ready Inc$9,97011%
Healthpath Foundation of Ohio$8,41511%
Miami County Dental Clinic$8,37311%
Knox Public Heatlth$8,0001n/a
Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc$7,9811n/a
Family Health Care of Northwest Ohio$7,62010%
National African American$7,50010%
Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana Inc$7,50010%
Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank$7,50010%
Madison District Public Schools$7,5001n/a
Northwest Michigan Community Action$7,50010%
Genesee Isd$7,4921n/a
Partnership for Good Health$7,300124%
Vista Maria$7,26310%
Good Neighbor House$7,00010%
Community Action Program of Evansville and Vanderburgh County Inc$6,03410%
Bethany Christian Services$6,00010%
Hopewell Health Centers Inc$6,00010%
St Martins Healthcare Inc$6,00010%
Community Service Center of Morgan Count$6,00011%
Heart of Ohio Family Health Centers$6,00010%
Advance Community Health Inc$5,82010%
Orange County Board of Elections$5,3301n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Delta Dental Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 178 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIndiana University Foundation: $2,025,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHarold W McMillen Center for Health Education Inc: $1,542,384 over 7y, 26% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $1,016,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Detroit Mercy: $750,305 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCovenant Community Care Inc: $724,995 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetHealth Emergency Lifeline Programs: $686,204 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetImpression 5 Science Center: $507,564 over 7y, 16% of budgetCatholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties: $434,148 over 1y, 13% of budgetSparrow Foundation: $410,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetNeighborhood Health Clinics Inc: $374,244 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMichigan Primary Care Association: $340,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCatherines Health Center: $334,932 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetMy Community Dental Centers Inc: $304,960 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDetroit Public Schools Foundation: $300,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetUnited Way of Northwest Michigan: $300,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetHnc Living Foundation: $275,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetAnn Arbor Hands-On Museum: $260,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetHealthsource of Ohio Inc: $260,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Wellness Plan Medical Centers: $255,600 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNortheast Ohio Medical University Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetUnited We Smile: $219,043 over 2y, 66% of budgetThe Cincinnati Dental Society's Oral Health Foundation: $211,350 over 2y, 28% of budgetGreater Schools: $211,093 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPope Francis Center: $205,996 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry: $205,228 over 1y, 38% of budgetMount Clemens Regional Health Care Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWayne County Healthy Communities: $200,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetGreat Lakes Bay Health Centers: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSt Vincent Catholic Charities: $187,865 over 1y, 12% of budgetThe Viscardi Center Inc: $186,100 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetHigh Point University: $180,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmiles on Wheels: $179,819 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetMobilemed1 Inc Dba Medworks: $175,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetNeighborhood Health Care Inc: $152,575 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEcho Community Health Care Inc: $151,509 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetShawnee State University Foundation: $150,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetAmerica's Toothfairy National Children's Oral Health Foundation: $150,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetHope Medical Clinic Inc: $141,783 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDr Gary Burnstein Community Health Clinic: $139,650 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetThe Cincinnati Health Network Inc: $138,253 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTeamsmile Inc: $134,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetThunder Bay Community Health Servic: $128,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOhio State University Foundation: $127,915 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCherry Street Services Foundation: $126,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetFlint Cultural Center Corporation: $125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe University of Cincinnati Foundation: $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Medical Center of Akron: $102,610 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Healthcare Connection Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 178.

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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.

Michigan Health Endowment FundMI68.6× affinity36 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Direct Relief · Healthpath Foundation of Ohio · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Americares Foundation Inc · Deaconess Health Associations Fund Inc · Delta Dental Plan of Michigan Inc · The CareSource Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · American Cancer Society Inc · The Carls Foundation · Patterson 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.

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About Delta Dental Fund

How much does Delta Dental Fund give?
Delta Dental Fund reported 83 itemized grants totaling $4,557,323, out of $5,410,895 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 68 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Delta Dental Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (75%), Education (10%), Human Services (3%).
Who are Delta Dental Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Michigan Dep of Health & Human Services ($3.5M), The Ohio State University ($2.6M), Regents of the University of Michigan ($2.5M).
Does Delta Dental Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Delta Dental Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Michigan Health Endowment Fund, Direct Relief, Healthpath Foundation of Ohio.
Where is Delta Dental Fund based?
Delta Dental Fund is based in MI.

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 223 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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