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Delta Dental of California at a glance

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Delta Dental of California

To advance dental health and access through exceptional dental benefits, service, technology and professional support.

$18M
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$17M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$144MPhilanthropy$1.9MPublic Safety & Disaster$880kFood & Nutrition$508kRecreation & Sports$406kHuman Services$405kEducation$356kPublic Benefit$206kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $343k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
  • $250k+2 grants · $18M
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DELTA DENTAL COMMUNITY CARE FOUNDATION$17,238,530
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC$275,316
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$100,000
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS$75,000
JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK$50,000
BLUE STAR FAMILIES INC$45,000
MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND$25,000
NATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION$25,000
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$25,000
RICHMONDERMET AID FOUNDATION$25,000
E4E RELIEF LLC$25,000
WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS$20,000
SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES$17,500
SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC$15,000
TRIUMPH CANCER FOUNDATION$15,000
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, $479k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOLLABACK INC: $15k → 20%NATIONAL INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $20k → 8%LABOR FOUNDATION FOR UNION WORKERS: $7k → 8%WISH OF A LIFETIME: $10k → 12%WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $20k → 8%LABOR FOUNDATION FOR UNION WORKERS: $5k → 8%WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $5k → 8%WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $5k → 8%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND DBA MPTF: $27k → 14%MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $25k → 14%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND DBA MPTF: $25k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS INC: $100k → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $100k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS INC: $25k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS INC: $15k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS INC: $15k → 10%CURRY SENIOR CENTER: $15k → 10%CURRY SENIOR CENTER: $10k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $15k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $10k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $5k → 10%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

MT
IL
NY
OR
NV
PA
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
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.
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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 93% of Delta Dental of California’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 7%.

Delta Dental of Californialessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$145M · 52 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

52 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
51

Total granted

$145M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+35%

Still filing today

90%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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 ServicesEducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • DD
    DELTA DENTAL COMMUNITY CARE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $142M · revenue +84% · 75% of their budget
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    6× · 2017–2024 · $855k · revenue +46%
  • TR
    THE RICHMOND ERMET AID FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $174k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FLUORIDATION SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue -81% · 86% of their budget
  • FS
    FUTURE SMILES
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -7%
  • AS
    AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +90%
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
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
2
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
3
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
4
Kaiser Foundation for the Advancement of Integrated Health Care

Kaiser foundation for the advancement of integrated health care is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) advocacy organization to engage in proactive advocacy to promote understanding of the benefits of integrated care and coverage, and support of the…

Health
5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
6
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
7
American Academy of Dermatology Association Inc

To represent the interests of dermatologists and their patients. to influence and be a credible resource for public and private entities related to all policies and regulations that have the potential to affect the delivery of dermatologic…

Health
8
Delta Dental of Washington

See schedule oddwa will revolutionize the oral health industry and improve overall health. this includes, but is not limited to, the following: to secure dental service for employer groups, individuals and their families; provide…

Health
9
California Healthcare Foundation

Chcf is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of california, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the…

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10
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education
11
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
12
Northern California Institute for Research and Education Inc

To improve the health and well-being of veterans and the general public by supporting a world-class biomedical research program conducted by ucsf faculty at the san francisco veterans affairs health care system.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Network for Oral Health Access; the most unlike its peers is Delta Dental Community Care Foundation. 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

97 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. 97 of the 114 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/97
Grantees still filing
73/97
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DELTA DENTAL COMMUNITY CARE FOUNDATION: $141,508,337 · PhilanthropyDELTA DENTAL COMMUNITY CARE FOUNDATION+4 more: $1,653,740 · PhilanthropyMISCELLANEOUS ITEMS LESS THAN 5000: $348,447 · OtherHEALTHY SMILES FOR KIDS OF ORANGE COUNTY: $185,000 · OtherDisabled American Veterans: $155,000 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $110,000 · OtherTHE OAKLAND ATHLETICS COMMUNITY FUND: $110,000 · OtherOAKLAND ATHLETICS BASEBALL CO: $100,000 · OtherSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $99,500 · OtherJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $135,000 · Other+46 more: $935,535 · OtherUCLA FOUNDATION: $796,480 · EducationUniversity of the Pacific: $155,000 · EducationAIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · Education+11 more: $121,500 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $855,000 · Human ServicesMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $77,000 · Human ServicesWARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $50,000 · Human Services+7 more: $107,100 · Human ServicesTHE RICHMOND ERMET AID FOUNDATION: $173,500 · HealthTRIUMPH CANCER FOUNDATION: $136,250 · HealthFUTURE SMILES: $100,000 · HealthAMERICA'S TOOTHFAIRY NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthCalifornia Pan-Ethnic Health Network: $40,000 · HealthNATIONAL NETWORK FOR ORAL HEALTH ACCESS: $35,000 · HealthLAPS FOR LEXI INC: $34,500 · Health+17 more: $306,243 · HealthBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC: $144,500 · Public BenefitNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $134,000 · Public BenefitTHE MOAA FOUNDATION: $74,900 · Public Benefit+2 more: $11,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN FLUORIDATION SOCIETY INC: $124,775 · Public Safety & DisasterE4E RELIEF LLC: $25,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Philanthropy$143,162,077Other$2,178,482Education$1,172,980Human Services$1,089,100Health$925,493Public Benefit$364,400Public Safety & Disaster$149,775

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 budgetDELTA DENTAL COMMUNITY CARE FOUNDATION: $141,508,337 over 8y, 75% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $1,534,740 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $855,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $796,480 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEALTHY SMILES FOR KIDS OF ORANGE COUNTY: $185,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE RICHMOND ERMET AID FOUNDATION: $173,500 over 7y, 14% of budgetUniversity of the Pacific: $155,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $155,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC: $144,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTRIUMPH CANCER FOUNDATION: $136,250 over 7y, 10% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $135,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $134,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FLUORIDATION SOCIETY INC: $124,775 over 1y, 86% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $110,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OAKLAND ATHLETICS COMMUNITY FUND: $110,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetAIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICA'S TOOTHFAIRY NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $99,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $77,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOAA FOUNDATION: $74,900 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetCalifornia Academy of General Dentistry: $60,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetTHE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF GENERAL DENTISTRY INC: $60,000 over 3y, 77% of budgetST VINCENT SENIOR CITIZEN NUTRITION PROGRAM INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $50,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SONOMA COUNTY: $42,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBAY AREA COUNCIL: $41,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DENTAL PLANS: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCalifornia Pan-Ethnic Health Network: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF DENTAL PLANS: $39,800 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK FOR ORAL HEALTH ACCESS: $35,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLAPS FOR LEXI INC: $34,500 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetLA CLINICA DE LA RAZA INC: $30,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOUTWARD BOUND INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICA'S DENTISTS CARE FOUNDATION: $26,793 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetNATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEDISON UNIVERSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetE4E RELIEF LLC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCURRY SENIOR CENTER: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS HEALTH INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

Delta Dental Communit…California Healthcare…Carequest Foundation …The California Endowm…Kaiser Foundation Hos…McNabb FoundationWeingart FoundationSutter Bay HospitalsCalifornia Physicians…The California Wellne…Dignity HealthEast Bay Community Fo…
Delta Dental Community Care FoundationCA55.2× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delta Dental Community Care Foundation · California Healthcare Foundation · Carequest Foundation Inc · The California Endowment · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · McNabb Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · The California Wellness Foundation · Dignity Health · East Bay Community 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 of California funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Delta Dental of California. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine: 100% of income from government
  • National Indian Child Welfare Association: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Delta Dental of California?

Find your warmest path to Delta Dental of California through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 114 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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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home