· Public charity
Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation
The corporation is organized to strengthen and transform the health and smiles of all iowans.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 61 grants below total $2,921,530 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,035,249 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $113,719 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 $10k8 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $941k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $607k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IOWA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (FORMERLY IOWA DEPARTMENT OF P | $412,988 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF FORT DODGE INC | $350,000 |
| EASTERN IOWA HEALTH CENTER | $284,178 |
| VISION TO LEARN | $270,758 |
| IOWA DENTAL FOUNDATION | $180,000 |
| CRESCENT COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $104,599 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA | $99,804 |
| NEWBO CITY MARKET | $72,500 |
| IOWA CITY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC | $50,000 |
| IOWA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE | $50,000 |
| REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT VOICES IN ACTION (RIVA) | $43,000 |
| ORAL HEALTH PROGRAMS | $35,000 |
| FIREFLY (FORMERLY FAMILY INC) | $35,000 |
| DES MOINES PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $31,966 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $843k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation’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, 96% of the giving stays in IA; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $456k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CCCrescent Community Health Center5× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +206%
- EIEASTERN IOWA HEALTH CENTER5× · 2018–2024 · $841k · revenue +52%
- SUSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2024 · $832k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- HCHAWKEYE COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $249k
- GHGENESIS HEALTH SYSTEMgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $228k · revenue +39%
- TCTRI-COUNTY CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $49k · revenue +26%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
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.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.
Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.
To improve the health of the people and communities we serve.
To improve the health of the people and communities we serve.
To provide financial assistance to unity healthcare to help enable it to carry out its exempt function of providing health care to the community.
Relentlessly advocating for providers to build healthy communities.
The purpose of the family planning council of iowa is to assure access to quality reproductive healthcare and family planning for all people.
The iowa hospital association reimagines health care in iowa for life changing outcomes. as the voice and principal advocate for iowa's hospitals, iha provides strategic leadership, resources, and support to ensure its members can…
To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Health Centers of Southeastern Iowa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Self Reliance Group Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
160 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 160 of the 221 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Crescent Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds EASTERN IOWA HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds DENTAL CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PRIMARY HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF FORT DODGE INC ↗
- Who funds Iowa Primary Care Association Inc ↗
- Who funds IOWA DENTAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF SOUTHEASTERN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds GENESIS HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds CENTER ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds IOWA PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY BIRTH DAY INC ↗
- Who funds American Institute of Dental Public Health ↗
- Who funds IOWA ACES 360 ↗
- Who funds IOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds RIVER HILLS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INFINITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds IOWA CAREGIVERS ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT VOICES IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds Prevent Blindness Iowa ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITIES COMMUNITY BROADCASTING GROUP ↗
- Who funds ELLIPSIS INC ↗
- Who funds ONE IOWA ↗
- Who funds OneSight ↗
- Who funds NEWBO CITY MARKET ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds Community Health Care Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER SIOUX COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MIND AND SPIRIT COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BROADLAWNS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: 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 · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · Mid-Iowa Health Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Chrysalis Foundation · The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc · Lsb Foundation · Greenstate Foundation · Telligen Community Initiative
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 Foundation 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.
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.