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Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation

The corporation is organized to strengthen and transform the health and smiles of all iowans.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$413k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$15MHuman Services$388kRecreation & Sports$227kYouth Development$216kEmployment$216kFood & Nutrition$157kPhilanthropy$145kCommunity Improvement$145kOther$0
02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 61 grants below total $2,921,530, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,035,249 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $113,719 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 $10k8 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k42 grants · $941k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $607k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION$50,000
IOWA CITY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC$50,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE$50,000
REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT VOICES IN ACTION (RIVA)$43,000
FIREFLY (FORMERLY FAMILY INC)$35,000
ORAL HEALTH PROGRAMS$35,000
DES MOINES PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$31,966
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, $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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $22k → 12%NEW OPPORTUNITIES: $5k → 9%FIREFLY (FORMERLY FAMILY INC): $35k → 12%ONESIGHT ESSILORLUXOTTICA FOUNDATION: $30k → 6%WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION: $5k → 9%NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION: $5k → 10%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $25k → 17%SUCCESSLINK: $25k → 17%THE BRIDGE OF STORM LAKE: $18k → 10%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $25k → 9%THE BRIDGE OF STORM LAKE: $18k → 10%FAMILY INC: $50k → 12%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $5k → 16%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $5k → 17%THE RIVER ARC: $28k → 17%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $25k → 9%FAMILY INC: $25k → 12%THE RIVER ARC: $22k → 17%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $25k → 9%FAMILY INC: $25k → 12%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $4k → 16%FAMILY INC: $25k → 12%FAMILY INC: $25k → 12%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $20k → 9%FAMILY INC: $25k → 12%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $10k → 9%FAMILY INC: $5k → 12%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $5k → 9%FAMILY INC: $5k → 12%FAMILY INC: $5k → 12%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $5k → 9%FAMILY INC: $4k → 12%MATTHEW 25: $7k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $25k → 9%REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT VOICES IN ACTION (RIVA): $43k → 10%EMBARC: $25k → 10%EMBARC: $25k → 10%EMBARC: $10k → 10%WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 10%OAKRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $25k → 10%OAKRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $18k → 10%OAKRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $17k → 10%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $15k → 10%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $5k → 10%ORCHARD PLACE: $5k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $20k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $10k → 10%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

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MA
IA
IN
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CO
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GA
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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 10% of Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in IA; by stated purpose, 88%.

Delta Dental of Iowa Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.6% 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 69 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
123

Total granted

$14M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+15%

Still filing today

86%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $456k 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
HealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CC
    Crescent Community Health Center
    5× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +206%
  • EI
    EASTERN IOWA HEALTH CENTER
    5× · 2018–2024 · $841k · revenue +52%
  • SU
    STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2024 · $832k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • HC
    HAWKEYE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $249k
  • GH
    GENESIS HEALTH SYSTEMgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $228k · revenue +39%
  • TC
    TRI-COUNTY CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $49k · revenue +26%
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
United Way of North Central Iowa

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…

Philanthropy
2
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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3
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
4
Central Iowa Health System

Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.

Health
5
Central Iowa Hospital Corporation

Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.

Health
6
Iowa Health System

To improve the health of the people and communities we serve.

Health
7
Iowa Physicians Clinic Medical Foundation

To improve the health of the people and communities we serve.

Health
8
Unity Healthcare Foundation

To provide financial assistance to unity healthcare to help enable it to carry out its exempt function of providing health care to the community.

Philanthropy
9
Iowa Association of Community

Relentlessly advocating for providers to build healthy communities.

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10
Family Planning Council of Iowa

The purpose of the family planning council of iowa is to assure access to quality reproductive healthcare and family planning for all people.

Health
11
Iowa Hospital Association

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…

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12
Iowa City Hospice Inc

To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Health Centers of Southeastern Iowa Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

160 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. 160 of the 221 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
156/160
Grantees still filing
103/160
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Crescent Community Health Center: $1,410,000 · HealthCrescent Community Health CenterEASTERN IOWA HEALTH CENTER: $841,396 · HealthEASTERN IOWA HEALTH CENTERVISION TO LEARN: $795,048 · HealthVISION TO LEARNDENTAL CONNECTIONS INC: $650,592 · HealthDENTAL CONNECTIONS INCPRIMARY HEALTH CARE INC: $570,157 · HealthPRIMARY HEALTH CARE INCCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF FORT DODGE INC: $419,996 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF FORT DODGE INCCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF SOUTHEASTERN IOWA INC: $269,745 · HealthGENESIS HEALTH SYSTEM: $227,573 · Health+33 more: $1,567,121 · Health+33 moreIOWA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (FORMERLY IOWA DEPARTMENT OF P: $3,163,889 · OtherIOWA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (FOR…State University of Iowa: $674,901 · OtherState University of IowaIowa Primary Care Association Inc: $359,104 · OtherHAWKEYE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $249,450 · Other+112 more: $2,874,473 · Other+112 moreSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $832,000 · EducationIOWA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $335,000 · Education+4 more: $73,922 · EducationFAMILY INC: $239,000 · Human ServicesCATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT VOICES IN ACTION: $103,000 · Human ServicesOneSight: $75,000 · Human ServicesHOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES: $59,747 · Human ServicesTHE RIVER ARC: $49,770 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE OF STORM LAKE: $37,260 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICES INC: $35,000 · Human Services+13 more: $229,550 · Human ServicesAmerican Institute of Dental Public Health: $131,999 · Arts & CultureQUAD CITIES COMMUNITY BROADCASTING GROUP: $91,950 · Arts & CultureTHE IOWA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $37,450 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE: $59,242 · PhilanthropyCHRYSALIS FOUNDATION: $49,241 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN: $25,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA: $23,600 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF JOHNSON & WASHINGTON COUNT: $20,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FORT DODGE: $10,000 · PhilanthropyNEWBO CITY MARKET: $72,500 · Community ImprovementMID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $38,060 · Community ImprovementTogether Making a Better Community: $21,300 · Community ImprovementMATURA ACTION CORPORATION: $6,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $15,000 · Community Improvement
Health$6,751,628Other$7,321,817Education$1,240,922Human Services$938,327Arts & Culture$261,399Philanthropy$187,083Community Improvement$152,860

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetCrescent Community Health Center: $1,410,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetEASTERN IOWA HEALTH CENTER: $841,396 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $832,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $795,048 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetDENTAL CONNECTIONS INC: $650,592 over 6y, 18% of budgetPRIMARY HEALTH CARE INC: $570,157 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF FORT DODGE INC: $419,996 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetIowa Primary Care Association Inc: $359,104 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetIOWA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $335,000 over 8y, 54% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF SOUTHEASTERN IOWA INC: $269,745 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFAMILY INC: $239,000 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetGENESIS HEALTH SYSTEM: $227,573 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER ASSOCIATES: $170,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetIOWA PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $158,400 over 4y, 18% of budgetHEALTHY BIRTH DAY INC: $146,649 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetAmerican Institute of Dental Public Health: $131,999 over 3y, 12% of budgetIOWA ACES 360: $128,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetIOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE: $127,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetRIVER HILLS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $127,055 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINFINITY HEALTH: $119,998 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIOWA CAREGIVERS: $112,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetCATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $110,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPrevent Blindness Iowa: $103,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT VOICES IN ACTION: $103,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetQUAD CITIES COMMUNITY BROADCASTING GROUP: $91,950 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetELLIPSIS INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetONE IOWA: $78,803 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetOneSight: $75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEWBO CITY MARKET: $72,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA: $68,786 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Health Care Inc: $67,356 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER SIOUX COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $63,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMIND AND SPIRIT COUNSELING CENTER: $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES: $59,747 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBROADLAWNS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $59,499 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE: $59,242 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMEDICAID MEDICARE CHIP SERVICES DENTAL ASSOCIATION: $55,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetIOWA BLACK DOULA COLLECTIVE: $55,000 over 2y, 93% of budgetTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES: $54,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $52,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCES INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA DENTAL ASSOCIATION-GENERAL FUND: $50,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetIOWA CITY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetTHE RIVER ARC: $49,770 over 2y, 51% of budgetCHRYSALIS FOUNDATION: $49,241 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTRI-COUNTY CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $48,939 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES: $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.

Prairie Meadows Race …Community Fdn of Grea…United Way of Central…GreenState Credit Uni…Variety - the Childre…Mid-Iowa Health Found…Alliant Energy Founda…Chrysalis FoundationThe Hws Charitable Fo…Lsb FoundationGreenstate FoundationTelligen Community In…
Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino IncIA87.7× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%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
    1get no government money at all
    48report 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.

    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 221 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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