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Delta Dental of Colorado

DELTA DENTAL OF COLORADO (ddco) was formed as a 501(c)(4) organization in order to improve the oral health of the communities it serves.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2024.

Health$14MPhilanthropy$800kAnimals$320kHuman Services$220kEducation$210kEnvironment$170kRecreation & Sports$155kPublic Safety & Disaster$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 42 grants below total $2,769,499 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,853,633 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $84,134 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $597k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$107M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DELTA DENTAL PLAN OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$2,000,000
DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION$80,000
COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION$50,000
DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC$40,000
FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$30,090
CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC$25,000
YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DENVER$25,000
CIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY$25,000
VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO$21,250
DELTA DENTAL PLANS ASSOCIATION$20,496
DENVER URBAN GARDENS$20,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$20,000
DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE$20,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITYOF METRO DENVER INC$20,000
WEECYCLE$20,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $270k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $6k → 17%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $10k → 5%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $10k → 8%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $10k → 10%PROJECT WORTHMORE DBA WORTHMORE CLINIC: $10k → 8%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $10k → 10%WOMENS FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $10k → 7%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 12%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 12%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $7k → 12%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DENVER: $25k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $8k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $5k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE INC: $10k → 12%WEECYCLE: $20k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 75% of Delta Dental of Colorado’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 30% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Delta Dental of Coloradolessmore 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 33 repeat orgs$585k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
23

Total granted

$16M
$355k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+10%

Still filing today

85%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • DZ
    DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2024 · $230k · revenue +1%
  • TC
    THE COLORADO MISSION OF MERCY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $126k · revenue +134%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO
    4× · 2021–2024 · $108k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ARCHER GROUPgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +47%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +17%
  • VO
    VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADO BRANCH
    one grant, 2022 · $30k

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.

1
Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce

The denver metro chamber of commerce is the architect of tomorrow, igniting change and driving progress to build dynamic economies and communities. we champion innovation, forge powerful partnerships, and relentlessly advocate for our…

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2
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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3
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
4
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
5
Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau

To bring conventions and leisure visitors to denver for the economic benefit of the city, the community, and our partners.

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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 Health Institute
Health
8
Impact Development Fund

Impact development fund helps people within our underserved communities seek fulfillment for themselves and their families by providing access to affordable living. we create these opportunities by delivering flexible capital to nonprofit…

Housing & Shelter
9
Denver Bar Association

To promote justice, its administration, and its availability to all sectors of society; to support and assist the membership in the delivery of legal services; to uphold the honor and dignity of the bar, and foster respect for the legal…

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10
Colo Foundation for Water Education

Water education colorado ensures coloradans are informed on water issues and equipped to make decisions that guide our state to a sustainable water future.

Environment
11
The Denver Foundation

To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.

Philanthropy
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc 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 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%2%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr9%31%35–55yr13%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr16%85%20–35yr9%6%35–55yr13%7%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/75
the rest of the field
14%
2,547/18,076

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

67 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. 67 of the 75 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/67
Grantees still filing
41/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DELTA DENTAL PLAN OF COLORADO FOUNDATION INC — $13,500,000 · PhilanthropyDELTA DENTAL PLAN OF COLORADO FOUNDATION INC+7 more — $899,564 · Philanthropy+7 moreHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC — $95,000 · OtherMETRO CARING — $59,750 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC — $50,000 · OtherB CIVIC — $39,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADO BRANCH — $30,000 · OtherCOLORADO WOMENS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $29,350 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO — $50,000 · OtherDENVER URBAN GARDENS — $50,000 · OtherDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC — $40,000 · OtherTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC — $50,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC — $60,000 · Other+23 more — $304,222 · OtherTHE COLORADO MISSION OF MERCY — $126,000 · HealthTHE ARCHER GROUP — $60,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $40,200 · HealthDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK — $20,000 · HealthNational Kidney Foundation Inc — $18,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $12,500 · HealthAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $11,600 · Health+5 more — $34,530 · HealthDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $230,000 · AnimalsDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $90,400 · AnimalsAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $70,000 · Human ServicesFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $66,340 · Human ServicesA PRECIOUS CHILD INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN DENVER — $25,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT WORTHMORE — $20,000 · Human ServicesWEECYCLE — $20,000 · Human ServicesFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO — $13,102 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesWARREN VILLAGE INC — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $6,000 · Human ServicesSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO — $108,000 · Recreation & SportsVOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO — $97,500 · Recreation & SportsCIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsExecutives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC) — $40,000 · EducationDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $30,250 · EducationC I R C L E — $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FDN — $10,000 · EducationACTION MILE HIGH FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Education
Philanthropy$14,399,564Other$857,322Health$322,830Animals$320,400Human Services$270,442Recreation & Sports$230,500Education$130,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDELTA DENTAL PLAN OF COLORADO FOUNDATION INC — $13,500,000 over 3y, 82% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $375,401 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION — $375,026 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $230,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COLORADO MISSION OF MERCY — $126,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO — $108,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetVOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO — $97,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC — $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $90,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $66,340 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ARCHER GROUP — $60,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMETRO CARING — $59,750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER URBAN GARDENS — $50,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $40,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetExecutives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC) — $40,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $30,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO WOMENS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $29,350 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS — $26,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN DENVER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER METRO CHAMBER LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $22,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDELTA DENTAL PLANS ASSOCIATION — $20,496 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetC I R C L E — $20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT WORTHMORE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHEALING DENVER — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEECYCLE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc — $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC — $17,137 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO — $13,102 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN PEAK DENVER — $12,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $11,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGEND COMMUNITY CENTER OF COLORADO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FDN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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…Xcel Energy FoundationSchlessman Foundation…Colorado Dental Servi…Mile High United Way …Caring for Colorado F…The Anschutz Foundati…The Colorado TrustTemple Hoyne Buell Fo…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO55.1× affinity31 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 · Xcel Energy Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Colorado Dental Service Inc · Mile High United Way Inc · Caring for Colorado Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation

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 Delta Dental of Colorado 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    22report 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Delta Dental of Colorado?

    Find your warmest path to Delta Dental of Colorado 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 75 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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