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Delta Dental of Iowa

DELTA DENTAL OF IOWA's mission is to improve the health and smiles of the people we serve.

$5.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Health$41MPhilanthropy$1.9MFood & Nutrition$315kRecreation & Sports$170kEnvironment$125kEducation$105kCommunity Improvement$75kYouth Development$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $162k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $312k
  • $250k+1 grant · $5.0M
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$180M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATION$5,000,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES$200,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA$61,981
YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC$50,000
CITY OF WEST DES MOINES$25,000
IOWA DENTAL FOUNDATION$25,000
FEEDING AMERICA$25,000
AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION$15,719
LEE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT$14,296
SCOTT COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT$13,894
PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION$12,000
BLACK HAWK COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT$11,210
JOHNSON COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH$10,164
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES$10,000
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 (FY19–24, $228k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $16k → 16%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $50k → 10%WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 10%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 10%PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%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.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$42M · 14 repeat orgs$602k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +3% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
20

Total granted

$42M
$388k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+1%

Still filing today

93%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $214k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionRecreation & 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

  • DD
    DELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $41M · revenue +79% · 95% of their budget
  • ID
    IOWA DENTAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +852% · 51% of their budget
  • DRAKE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2023 · $65k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • IC
    IOWA CENTER FOR ECONOMIC SUCCESS
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -5%
  • CF
    CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +11%
  • IS
    IOWA SOCCER DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -94%

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
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce

Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.

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2
Iowa Credit Union Foundation

Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…

Unclassified
3
Iowa Association of Business and Industry Foundation

To deliver programs and to conduct research for the benefit of students, educators, emerging leaders and employers that expand their knowledge and enhance their individual responsibility and leadership skills.

Youth Development
4
Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

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5
Iowa College Foundation

The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.

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6
Iowa Corn Promotion Board

The iowa corn promotion board (icpb) works to develop and defend markets, fund research, and provide education about corn and corn products. icpb's mission is to create opportunities for long term iowa corn grower profitability.

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7
The Foundation for the Iowa City Community School District

The foundation for the iowa city community school district connects the community with our schools to ensure every student has extraordinary learning experiences. together we empower teachers and district staff and inspire students to…

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8
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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9
Iowa Council of Foundations

To strengthen and promote organized philanthropy in the state of iowa; to assist and educate its membership in order to promote and facilitate effective philanthropic grantmaking; and to provide a forum for the exchange of information on…

Education
10
Iowa Association of Business and Industry

To nurture a favorable business, economic, governmental, and social climate within the state of iowa so our citizens can have the opportunity to enjoy the highest possible quality of life.

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11
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy
12
Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Iowa and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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 31 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number9%0%<5yr6%0%5–10yr8%28%10–20yr7%31%20–35yr9%17%35–55yr61%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value9%0%<5yr6%0%5–10yr8%94%10–20yr7%5%20–35yr9%1%35–55yr61%1%55yr+

The field is 9% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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 5% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
5%
563/11,571

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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 44 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
19/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $40,914,015 · HealthDELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATION+2 more — $70,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $1,860,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $20,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA — $61,981 · OtherPrevent Blindness Iowa — $45,000 · OtherCITY OF WEST DES MOINES — $25,000 · OtherTOPEKA HY-VEE — $24,750 · OtherTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES — $20,000 · OtherIOWA CENTER FOR ECONOMIC SUCCESS — $50,000 · OtherIOWA SOCCER DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · OtherCHICKASAW ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB — $50,000 · OtherCONNECTCR INC — $25,000 · OtherCENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES — $30,000 · Other+14 more — $140,564 · OtherWESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesCHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION — $15,719 · Human ServicesPUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION — $12,000 · Human Services+1 more — $6,755 · Human ServicesIOWA DENTAL FOUNDATION — $75,000 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSITY — $65,000 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $45,000 · EducationDES MOINES UNIVERSITY OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL CENTER — $25,000 · EducationIOWA RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationIOWA FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — $165,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America — $50,000 · Food & NutritionGREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION — $125,000 · Animals
Health$40,984,015Philanthropy$1,880,000Other$522,295Human Services$234,474Education$225,000Food & Nutrition$215,000Animals$125,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $40,914,015 over 8y, 95% of budgetCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $1,860,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetIOWA FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — $165,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetGREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIOWA DENTAL FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 3y, 51% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY — $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA — $61,981 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIOWA CENTER FOR ECONOMIC SUCCESS — $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIOWA SOCCER DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFeeding America — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICKASAW ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB — $50,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetVISION TO LEARN — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES — $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCONNECTCR INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDES MOINES UNIVERSITY OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE — $25,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EASTER SEAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION — $15,719 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH CONCEPTS — $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDES MOINES WATER WORKS PARK FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetIOWA RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetMIND AND SPIRIT COUNSELING CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOneSight — $6,755 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOE COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Delta Dental of Iowa …Prairie Meadows Race …Community Fdn of Grea…United Way of Central…GreenState Credit Uni…William C Knapp Chari…Wt and Edna M Dahl Tr…The West Bancorporati…The Merchants Bonding…Alliant Energy Founda…Meredith Corporation …R & R Realty Group Fo…
Delta Dental of Iowa FoundationIA42.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · United Way of Central Iowa · GreenState Credit Union · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · Wt and Edna M Dahl Trust · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Meredith Corporation Foundation · R & R Realty Group 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 Iowa 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 · 00%6%25%56%100%your 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
    8report 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.

    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 44 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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