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Delta Dental of Kansas Inc

To make possible and facilitate a wider and more timely availability of dental care, thereby advancing the public health and the science and art of dentistry in the state of Kansas by offering affordable benefits and exceptional service to Kansans and Kansas employers.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Itemized grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
13%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$951k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$385,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 44
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$116M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Delta Dental of Kansas Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentRecreation & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving15$951k13%
FY202316$885k13%
FY202223$1.2M13%
FY202127$1.1M19%
FY202022$1.3M23%
FY201944$2.6M34%
FY201837$1.6M46%
FY201726$369kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$4.8MHealth$2.0MFood & Nutrition$660kCommunity Improvement$506kEducation$484kHuman Services$464kArts & Culture$260kScience & Tech$223kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of the Plains Inc$2,422,56167%
United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc$2,312,00072%
Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc$571,00052%
Hnc Living Foundation$469,331425%
The Children's Mercy Hospital$405,00050%
Rose Brooks Center Inc$395,00053%
Exploration Place Inc$273,63151%
Kansas Athletics Inc$194,5006n/a
Sedgwick County Zoological Society Inc$180,39070%
Botanica Inc$165,00081%
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All grantees of Delta Dental of Kansas Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of the Plains Inc$2,422,56167%
United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc$2,312,00072%
Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc$571,00052%
Hnc Living Foundation$469,331425%
The Children's Mercy Hospital$405,00050%
Rose Brooks Center Inc$395,00053%
Exploration Place Inc$273,63151%
Kansas Athletics Inc$194,5006n/a
Sedgwick County Zoological Society Inc$180,39070%
Botanica Inc$165,00081%
Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce Inc$151,28562%
Breakthrough T1d$135,00060%
Heartspring Foundation$127,094351%
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City$125,55041%
The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation$115,00021%
Mark Arts Inc$102,50062%
Kansas Insurance & Financial Services Education Foundation$100,000817%
Heartspring Inc$97,50020%
Teamsmile Inc$97,50034%
Kansas City Area Development Council$95,00021%
Kansas Athletics Incorporated$93,0003n/a
YMCA Foundation of Wichita Inc (2311-SO)$86,465310%
Oral Health Kansas Inc$80,00075%
Air Capital Charities Inc$79,25053%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Wichita Inc$67,40071%
Topeka Rescue Mission Inc$65,00012%
Starlight Theatre Association of Kansas City Inc$57,00061%
American Heart Association Inc$50,10020%
Greater Wichita Partnership Inc$50,00050%
The Kansas University Endowment Association$50,00030%
Flint Hills Technical College Foundation$50,00022%
Johnson County Community College$50,0001n/a
Manhattan Area Technical College Foundation$50,000218%
Kansas Chamber of Commerce and Industry Educational Foundation$41,00037%
Youth Entrepreneurs Inc$35,00030%
AdventHealth Kansas City Foundation$30,45030%
Central Plains Health Care Partnership Inc$30,00021%
Urban Neighborhood Initiative Inc$30,00032%
March of Dimes Inc$30,00030%
Kansas Society for Children With Challenges$30,000210%
United Methodist Western Kansas Mexican- American Ministries Inc$29,66570%
Starkey Inc$26,00010%
Boys Club of Greater Kansas City$25,00010%
Rise Up for Youth Inc$25,00014%
Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City$24,50020%
Catholic Diocese of Wichita$24,0001n/a
Johnson County Christmas Bureau$20,66871%
Kansas Big Brothers Big Sisters Inc$20,07520%
Big Brothers Big Sisters Foundation$20,00021%
Sedgwick County$18,5316n/a
Gracemed Health Clinic Inc$16,49870%
Special Olympics Kansas Inc$15,00011%
Oral Health International Foundation$15,00012%
First United Methodist Church$12,5264n/a
Greater Kansas City Sports Commission$12,50020%
Emmaus House Inc$12,00014%
Our Redeemer Lutheran Church$12,0001n/a
Valeo Behavioral Health Care Inc$12,00010%
Kansas Financial Empowerment Foundation$10,00012%
Project 2 Restore Inc$10,00012%
Catholic Charities Foundation of Northeast Kansas Inc$7,80010%
Boys & Girls Club of South Central Kansas Inc$7,50011%
Envision Foundation Inc$7,50010%
Fosteradopt Connect Inc$7,50010%
Wichita Festivals Inc$7,50010%
Hy-Vee Foundation Inc$7,0001n/a
Dental Lifeline Network$6,97110%
Marian Clinic Inc$6,27110%
Health Ministries Clinic Inc$6,23440%
Healthe Kids Institute$6,1612n/a
Bradens Hope for Childhood Cancer Inc$6,00010%
Kansmile Foundation$5,9001n/a
Dayton Business Journal$5,1921n/a
Community Health Center of Se Kansas Inc$5,16010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($8k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Delta Dental of Kansas Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of the Plains Inc: $2,422,561 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc: $2,312,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetKansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc: $571,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetHnc Living Foundation: $469,331 over 4y, 25% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $405,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRose Brooks Center Inc: $395,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetExploration Place Inc: $273,631 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSedgwick County Zoological Society Inc: $180,390 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBotanica Inc: $165,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetWichita Regional Chamber of Commerce Inc: $151,285 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $135,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHeartspring Foundation: $127,094 over 3y, 51% of budgetChamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City: $125,550 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation: $115,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMark Arts Inc: $102,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetKansas Insurance & Financial Services Education Foundation: $100,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetHeartspring Inc: $97,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTeamsmile Inc: $97,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetKansas City Area Development Council: $95,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetYMCA Foundation of Wichita Inc (2311-SO): $86,465 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetOral Health Kansas Inc: $80,000 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetAir Capital Charities Inc: $79,250 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Wichita Inc: $67,400 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTopeka Rescue Mission Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetStarlight Theatre Association of Kansas City Inc: $57,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $50,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Wichita Partnership Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFlint Hills Technical College Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetManhattan Area Technical College Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetKansas Chamber of Commerce and Industry Educational Foundation: $41,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetYouth Entrepreneurs Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation: $30,450 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCentral Plains Health Care Partnership Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUrban Neighborhood Initiative Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKansas Society for Children With Challenges: $30,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetUnited Methodist Western Kansas Mexican- American Ministries Inc: $29,665 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetStarkey Inc: $26,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys Club of Greater Kansas City: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRise Up for Youth Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City: $24,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJohnson County Christmas Bureau: $20,668 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetKansas Big Brothers Big Sisters Inc: $20,075 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGracemed Health Clinic Inc: $16,498 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Kansas Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOral Health International Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 63.

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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.

Kansas Health FoundationKS46.8× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kansas Health Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc · Ima Foundation · Wichita Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans · United Way of the Plains Inc · Belin Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust

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.

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About Delta Dental of Kansas Inc

How much does Delta Dental of Kansas Inc give?
Delta Dental of Kansas Inc reported 15 itemized grants totaling $951,250, out of $1,228,152 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Delta Dental of Kansas Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (48%), Health (20%), Food & Nutrition (7%).
Who are Delta Dental of Kansas Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United Way of the Plains Inc ($2.4M), United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ($2.3M), Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc ($571k).
Does Delta Dental of Kansas Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Delta Dental of Kansas Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kansas Health Foundation, Berry Foundation Inc, Ima Foundation.
Where is Delta Dental of Kansas Inc based?
Delta Dental of Kansas Inc is based in KS.

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 75 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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