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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 FY2024still arriving
83
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$445k
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 2024.

Health$24MEducation$3.3MHuman Services$857kPhilanthropy$519kScience & Tech$508kPublic Safety & Disaster$474kCommunity Improvement$455kArts & Culture$431kOther$0
02FY2024 · 83 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 83 grants below total $4,557,323, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,410,895 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $853,572 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $162k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $569k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$139M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN DENTAL HYGENTISTS ASSOCIATION$444,500
MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION$353,624
STATE OF MICHIGAN$325,000
THE GREATER DAYTON SCHOOL$211,093
WAYNE COUNTY HEALTHY COMMUNITIES$200,000
UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGANUNITED WE SMILE$200,000
ST VINCENT CATHOLIC CHARITIES$187,865
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$184,733
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY$180,000
REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$177,760
TRUSTEES UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$150,000
HNC LIVING FOUNDATION$150,000
HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC$141,783
TEAM SMILE INC$108,000
SHAWNEE STATE UNIVERSITY$100,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $133k → 6%CRISTO REY COMM CENTER: $434k → 9%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $8k → 10%UPCAP SERVICES INC: $10k → 13%BASHOR CHILDRENS HOME: $15k → 13%COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF COLUM: $10k → 16%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $54k → 6%POPE FRANCIS CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS: $206k → 21%COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM OF EVANSVILLE: $6k → 15%CARE ALLIANCE HEALTH CENTER: $10k → 17%COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF PIKE CNTY: $10k → 22%EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER: $10k → 15%PARTNERSHIP FOR GOOD HEALTH: $7k → 17%EVERYBODY READY INC: $10k → 21%GOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE: $7k → 14%CARE ALLIANCE HEALTH CENTER: $10k → 17%ADA JENKINS FAMILIES & CAREER: $10k → 10%CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $23k → 17%CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $10k → 17%PRESBYTERIAN VILLAGES OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 8%THE BOUNDLESS FOUNDATION INC: $64k → 15%CHILD & FAMILY CHARITIES: $25k → 16%THE DAVIES PROJECT FOR MID MI CHILDREN: $20k → 16%THE DAVIES PROJECT FOR MID MI CHILDREN: $15k → 16%THE DAVIES PROJECT FOR MID MI CHILDREN: $10k → 16%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CO
MO
VA
KS
NC
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 12% of Delta Dental Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 50% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 39%.

Delta Dental Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 10% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25M · 82 repeat orgs$7.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

82 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
105

Total granted

$25M
$5.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+23%

Still filing today

79%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • Indiana University Foundation
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +21%
  • HW
    HAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +93% · 26% of their budget
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • CC
    Catholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Countiesgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $434k · revenue +155%
  • DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $300k · revenue +636%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGANgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +510%
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
Community Health Care Inc

Community health care provides the communities we serve with excellence in patient-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care that is compassionate, affordable, and accessible.

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2
Open Cities Health Center Inc

Open Cities Health Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) whose mission is to provide culturally competent primary and preventive healthcare services to a largely underserved population in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

Health
3
Heartland Community Health Clinic D/B/a Heartland Health Services

Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.

Health
4
Marin Community Clinic

To improve the health of our patients and community by providing high quality, cost-effective, culturally sensitive, patient-centered health care.

Health
5
Midmichigan Health Services

To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.

Health
6
Grace Health Inc

To provide patient-centered healthcare with excellence in quality, service and access.

Health
7
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
8
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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9
Community Care of West Virginia Inc

The mission of ccwv is to help our communities live the healthiest lives possible by meeting their immediate and long-term healthcare needs. this mission is accomplished by providing high quality, accessible, comprehensive, culturally…

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10
Lakeshore Community Health Care Inc

Lakeshore community health care provides access to comprehensive, integrated health care, regardless of ability to pay, eliminating health disparities among the underserved.

Health
11
Charter Oak Health Center Inc

To provide comprehensive preventive and primary health care services to the citizens of the greater hartford area.

Health
12
Western Wayne Family Health Centers

To provide quality,comprehensive primary health care services that are accessible, affordable and responsive to the communities that we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Primary Health Care Assoc Inc; the most unlike its peers is Oral Health America Americas Fund for Dental Health Bk 20-04264. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

183 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. 183 of the 223 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
180/183
Grantees still filing
131/183
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MICHIGAN DEP OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES: $3,456,824 · OtherMICHIGAN DEP OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICESTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $2,578,613 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $2,473,015 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN+74 more: $5,950,310 · Other+74 moreHAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION INC: $1,542,384 · HealthHAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR H…Covenant Community Care Inc: $724,995 · HealthCovenant Community Care IncHEALTH EMERGENCY LIFELINE PROGRAMS: $686,204 · HealthHEALTH EMERGENCY LIFELINE PROG…SPARROW FOUNDATION: $410,000 · HealthNeighborhood Health Clinics Inc: $374,244 · HealthMICHIGAN PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION: $340,000 · HealthCATHERINES HEALTH CENTER: $334,932 · HealthMy Community Dental Centers Inc: $304,960 · Health+69 more: $4,034,383 · Health+69 moreIndiana University Foundation: $2,025,000 · EducationIndiana University F…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $1,016,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE…UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $750,305 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DETROI…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $380,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIV…DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $300,000 · EducationNORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationGREATER SCHOOLS: $211,093 · Education+14 more: $931,141 · Education+14 moreCatholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties: $434,148 · Human ServicesPOPE FRANCIS CENTER: $205,996 · Human ServicesTHE VISCARDI CENTER INC: $186,100 · Human ServicesTHE BOUNDLESS FOUNDATION INC: $64,000 · Human ServicesTHE DAVIES PROJECT FOR MID MICHIGAN CHILDREN: $45,000 · Human Services+10 more: $152,695 · Human ServicesIMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER: $507,564 · Arts & CultureANN ARBOR HANDS-ON MUSEUM: $260,000 · Arts & CultureFlint Cultural Center Corporation: $125,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $37,582 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $30,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN DENTAL HYGIENIST ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE FOR ORAL HEALTH: $444,500 · Community ImprovementOLD NEWSBOYS GOODFELLOW FUND OF DETROIT MICHIGAN: $30,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN: $300,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $110,000 · PhilanthropyFRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$14,458,762Health$8,752,102Education$5,863,539Human Services$1,087,939Arts & Culture$960,146Community Improvement$474,500Philanthropy$425,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $380,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 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.

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 Endow…Direct ReliefHealthpath Foundation…Community Foundation …Americares Foundation…Deaconess Health Asso…Delta Dental Plan of …The CareSource Founda…United Way for Southe…American Cancer Socie…The Carls FoundationPatterson Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
55report 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
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 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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