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Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation

DELTA DENTAL OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION was formed to improve the overall health and well-being of the people in illinois through education and access to quality healthcare.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$500k
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$19MEducation$2.2MEmployment$236kHuman Services$110kYouth Development$72kFood & Nutrition$64kInternational$50kCivil Rights$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 40 grants below total $1,549,778, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,539,304 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $989,526 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 $10k10 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $393k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $595k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION$500,000
OSF HEALTHCARE SYSTEM$200,000
ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$145,000
TCA HEALTH INC$100,000
MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY$100,000
HISPANIC DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION$50,000
DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK$30,000
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION$25,000
DOUGLAS COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT$20,000
CATS CARE$20,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS$20,000
PRIMECARE COMMUNITY HEALTH INC$20,000
OAK PARK RIVER FOREST INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY$20,000
EFFINGHAM COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT$20,000
IWS FAMILY HEALTH$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 (FY17–24, $415k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HAMDARD CENTER FOR HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: $50k → 7%THE OUTREACH HOUSE: $15k → 7%Milestone Dental Clinic: $10k → 15%Milestone Dental Clinic: $10k → 15%Milestone Inc: $10k → 15%YWCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $100k → 14%MILESTONE DENTAL CLINIC: $10k → 15%MILESTONE DENTAL CLINIC: $10k → 15%YWCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $100k → 14%MILESTONE DENTAL CLINIC: $10k → 15%MILESTONE DENTAL CLINIC: $10k → 15%MILESTONE DENTAL CLINIC: $10k → 15%Misericordia Home: $10k → 14%AUNT MARTHA'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS INC: $25k → 14%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 14%Howard Area Community Center: $10k → 14%Howard Area Community Center: $10k → 14%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
NY
MA
NV
IA
CO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
TX
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 13% of Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 78%.

Delta Dental of Illinois Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 13% 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 63 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
33

Total granted

$19M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+27%

Still filing today

78%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $337k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCivil RightsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • University of Illinois Foundation
    2× · 2022–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +70%
  • AC
    ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +75%
  • SI
    SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
    one grant, 2021 · $749k
  • VH
    VNA Health Caregraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +63%
  • AH
    ASIAN HUMAN SERVICES FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +71%
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
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
2
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
3
Healthcore Clinic Inc

The mission of healthcore clinic, inc is to provide quality family healthcare through improved access and a heightened and unrelenting focus on education and prevention.

Health
4
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
5
Indiana Health Centers Inc

Improving the health status of the community at large with special emphasis on those who, because of their poverty, location in rural areas, or for other reasons, have health needs which are not being properly addressed.

Health
6
Rockford Health Physicians

To improve and protect the health and welfare of the community in accordance with our mission, the mission of rockford health physicians is "exceptional health care services with a passion for making lives better." the foundation of this…

Health
7
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group

Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…

Health
8
Endeavor Health Medical Group

Endeavor Health Medical Group (EHMG) follows the mission of Endeavor Health. The mission of Endeavor Health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." Central to this mission is a commitment to providing clinical programs and…

Health
9
Community Health Centers of Southeastern Iowa Inc

To provide primary health care to residents of the greater se iowa region, especially those individuals/families with limited resources or with other barriers to health care. see schedule o for additional information.

Health
10
Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare

Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

Health
11
Indian Health Board of Minneapolis Inc

The mission of indian health board of minneapolis, inc. is to ensure access to quality health care services for american indians and other peoples and to promote health education and wellness.

Health
12
Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare Group

The elmhurst memorial healthcare group follows the mission of endeavor health (f/k/a ns-ee holdings). the mission of endeavor health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." central to this mission is a commitment to…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Health Improvement Center; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

88 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 88 of the 110 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/88
Grantees still filing
61/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $2,852,313 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF …SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY- CARBONDALE: $869,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY- CARBONDALEUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $748,807 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSHoward Brown Health Center: $517,576 · OtherHoward Brown Health CenterMIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY PROPERTIES CORP: $400,000 · OtherMACON COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT: $339,000 · OtherINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO: $310,000 · Other+33 more: $2,274,578 · Other+33 moreADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,780,000 · HealthADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONPILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $894,921 · HealthPILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTHCOMMUNITY HEALTH & EMERGENCY SERVICES IN: $369,000 · HealthSHAWNEE HEALTH SERVICE & DEVEL CORP: $344,000 · HealthALIVIO MEDICAL CENTER INC: $319,000 · HealthBELOVED COMMUNITY FAMILY WELLNESS CENTER: $318,178 · HealthSARAH BUSH LINCOLN HEALTH CENTER: $317,658 · HealthNear North Health Service Corporation: $286,000 · HealthCentral Counties Health Centers Inc: $250,000 · Health+36 more: $2,426,241 · Health+36 moreUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $2,505,875 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Foun…Illinois State Dental Society Foundation: $1,530,000 · EducationIllinois State Dental Socie…SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION: $1,020,000 · EducationSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSIT…+9 more: $254,401 · EducationYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $200,000 · Human ServicesMILESTONE INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesHAMDARD HEALTH ALLIANCE: $50,000 · Human ServicesHoward Area Community Center: $35,000 · Human ServicesAUNT MARTHA'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE OUTREACH HOUSE: $15,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW: $125,000 · Crime & LegalHEARTLAND ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsCASA KANE COUNTY: $45,000 · Civil RightsCRUSADERS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCHICAGO DENTAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyMISS CARLY'S INC: $7,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$8,311,274Health$7,304,998Education$5,310,276Human Services$415,000Crime & Legal$125,000Civil Rights$95,000Philanthropy$75,000Food & Nutrition$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $2,505,875 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,780,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetIllinois State Dental Society Foundation: $1,530,000 over 4y, 82% of budgetSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION: $1,020,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetPILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $894,921 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetHoward Brown Health Center: $517,576 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY PROPERTIES CORP: $400,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH & EMERGENCY SERVICES IN: $369,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSHAWNEE HEALTH SERVICE & DEVEL CORP: $344,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetALIVIO MEDICAL CENTER INC: $319,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBELOVED COMMUNITY FAMILY WELLNESS CENTER: $318,178 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSARAH BUSH LINCOLN HEALTH CENTER: $317,658 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO: $310,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetNear North Health Service Corporation: $286,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCentral Counties Health Centers Inc: $250,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPrimeCare Community Health Inc: $214,250 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOSF Healthcare System: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTNUT HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBy The Hand Club For Kids: $162,022 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVNA Health Care: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROMISE HEALTHCARE NFP: $145,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetHISPANIC DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $138,750 over 3y, 38% of budgetMOBILE CARE FOUNDATION: $136,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetCHICAGO FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $130,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTCA HEALTH INC: $125,832 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW: $125,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTapestry 360 Health: $125,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetErie Family Health Foundation Inc: $115,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetHENDERSON COUNTY RURAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $104,937 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetASIAN HUMAN SERVICES FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSt Bernard Hospital: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOak Park River Forest Infant Welfare S: $100,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP OF ILLINOIS: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWELL CHILD CONFERENCE OF ELGIN: $100,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetHEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH: $97,070 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERBEND HEAD START & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $90,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetMILESTONE INC: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ILLINOIS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetZion Benton Children's Service: $59,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $55,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRUSADERS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetCommunity Health Care Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEARTLAND ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriend Family Health Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAMDARD HEALTH ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCASA KANE COUNTY: $45,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

Illinois Children's H…Illinois Primary Heal…United Way of Metropo…AlliancechicagoVisiting Nurse Associ…Lloyd a Fry FoundationRobert R McCormick Fo…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Northwestern Memorial…The Chicago Community…AIDS Foundation of Ch…Grant Hospital of Chi…
Illinois Children's Healthcare FoundationIL75.6× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation · Illinois Primary Health Care Association · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Alliancechicago · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · The Chicago Community Trust · AIDS Foundation of Chicago · Grant Hospital of Chicago D/B/A Grant Healthcare 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 Illinois Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    0get no government money at all
    19report 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 Illinois Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation 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 110 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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