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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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$14MPhilanthropy$800kAnimals$320kHuman Services$220kEducation$210kEnvironment$170kRecreation & Sports$155kPublic Safety & Disaster$150kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $635k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$16,700
Median grant
4
States reached
$121M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DELTA DENTAL PLAN OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$1,000,000
COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION$50,000
COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION$46,238
DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATN$38,000
COLORADO ROCKIES BASEBALL CLUB$30,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC$30,000
CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC$25,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO$25,000
DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC$25,000
THRIVING FAMILIES$25,000
PLAYFLY LLC$20,600
FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$20,090
CLEO PARKER ROBINSON DANCE$20,000
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER$20,000
WEECYCLE$20,000
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 (FY20–25, $356k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $6k → 17%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $10k → 5%PROJECT WORTHMORE DBA WORTHMORE CLINIC: $10k → 8%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $10k → 10%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $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: $20k → 12%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $7k → 12%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DENVER: $25k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 12%THRIVING FAMILIES: $25k → 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%WEECYCLE: $20k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS MILE HIGH CHAPTER: $20k → 12%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.
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 75% of Delta Dental of Colorado’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 30%.

Delta Dental of Coloradolessmore 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 42 repeat orgs$485k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
29

Total granted

$17M
$379k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+7%

Still filing today

86%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • DZ
    DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2025 · $240k · revenue +1%
  • TC
    THE COLORADO MISSION OF MERCY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $146k · revenue +134%
  • DP
    DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $128k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ARCHER GROUPgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +47%
  • VO
    VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADO BRANCH
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN DENVER
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +2%
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
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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2
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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3
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
4
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
5
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
6
Philanthropy Colorado

Philanthropy colorado is a nonprofit membership association for grantmakers throughout the state. its mission is strengthen colorado communities by bringing people, information and resources together.

Philanthropy
7
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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8
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
9
Core Electric Cooperative

The following mission statement guides the cooperative in fulfilling its tax exempt purpose of providing quality and reliable electric service to our member-consumers: improving lives and communities through choice and innovation.

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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
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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12
The Denver Foundation

To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 81 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/71
Grantees still filing
46/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DELTA DENTAL PLAN OF COLORADO FOUNDATION INC: $14,500,000 · PhilanthropyDELTA DENTAL PLAN OF COLORADO FOUNDATION INC+7 more: $1,070,623 · Philanthropy+7 moreHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC: $107,000 · OtherMETRO CARING: $69,750 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC: $63,750 · OtherB CIVIC: $49,000 · OtherCOLORADO WOMENS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $42,350 · OtherExecutives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC): $40,000 · OtherTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC: $75,000 · OtherDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $65,000 · OtherDENVER URBAN GARDENS: $60,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC: $90,000 · Other+32 more: $523,772 · OtherTHE COLORADO MISSION OF MERCY: $146,000 · HealthTHE ARCHER GROUP: $60,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $40,200 · HealthNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $33,500 · HealthDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $20,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $18,500 · Health+6 more: $46,130 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $90,000 · Human ServicesFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $86,430 · Human ServicesWEECYCLE: $40,000 · Human ServicesA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHRIVING FAMILIES: $25,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN DENVER: $25,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT WORTHMORE: $20,000 · Human ServicesFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $13,102 · Human Services+3 more: $26,000 · Human ServicesDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $240,363 · AnimalsDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $90,400 · AnimalsSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $118,000 · Recreation & SportsVOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO: $108,750 · Recreation & SportsCIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsGIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS: $41,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER: $40,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$15,570,623Other$1,185,622Health$364,330Human Services$355,532Animals$330,763Recreation & Sports$266,750Youth Development$156,000

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 PLAN OF COLORADO FOUNDATION INC: $14,500,000 over 4y, 82% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $471,264 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $393,201 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $240,363 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COLORADO MISSION OF MERCY: $146,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $128,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $118,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetVOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO: $108,750 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC: $107,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $90,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $90,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $86,430 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMETRO CARING: $69,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER URBAN GARDENS: $60,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARCHER GROUP: $60,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCOLORADO WOMENS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $42,350 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS: $41,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $40,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY: $40,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetExecutives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC): $40,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWEECYCLE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $36,158 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $33,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $30,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetC I R C L E: $30,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetNEW DANCE THEATRE INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHRIVING FAMILIES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 budgetJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING DENVER: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPROJECT WORTHMORE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $18,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGEND COMMUNITY CENTER OF COLORADO: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $13,102 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN PEAK DENVER: $12,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $11,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING COLORADO: $10,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FDN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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

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 Colorado funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Delta Dental of Colorado. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's 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
    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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 81 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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