Colorado · Public charity
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. Because people with dental insurance over time have better oral health outcomes, DELTA DENTAL OF COLORADO devotes itself to providing high quality affordable dental insurance to as many coloradans as…
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $16,700
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 40
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $121M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Delta Dental of Colorado funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 36 | $1.6M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $2.7M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $763k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $424k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $6.6M | 82% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $5.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation Inc | $14,500,000 | 4 | 82% |
| Mile High United Way Inc | $393,201 | 6 | 1% |
| Denver Zoological Foundation | $240,363 | 3 | 0% |
| The Colorado Mission of Mercy | $146,000 | 5 | 22% |
| Denver Public Schools Foundation | $128,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Special Olympics Colorado | $118,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado | $108,750 | 5 | 2% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Inc | $107,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Denver Dumb Friends League | $90,400 | 4 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $90,000 | 5 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Delta Dental of Colorado supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Delta Dental of Colorado
- How much does Delta Dental of Colorado give?
- Delta Dental of Colorado reported 39 grants totaling $1,699,787 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 40 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Delta Dental of Colorado fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (84%), Philanthropy (5%), Animals (2%).
- Who are Delta Dental of Colorado's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation Inc ($15M), Mile High United Way Inc ($393k), Denver Zoological Foundation ($240k).
- Does Delta Dental of Colorado fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Delta Dental of Colorado?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, The Denver Foundation.
- Where is Delta Dental of Colorado based?
- Delta Dental of Colorado is based in CO.
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