· Public charity
Delta Dental of Kentucky Inc
Delta dental of kentucky's ("ddky") overarching mission is everyone deserves a happy & healthy smile.
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 24 grants below total $2,499,057 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,639,506 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $140,449 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 $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $331k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DELTA DENTAL OF KENTUCKY FOUNDATION | $2,102,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| GREATER LOUISVILLE INC | $45,700 |
| E-RIDES LLC | $37,062 |
| AMERICAN JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| FIRST TEE LOUISVILLE | $20,000 |
| BOURBON CRUSADERS INC | $19,000 |
| ROBBIE VALENTINE BASKETBALL CAMPS | $18,500 |
| CARDINAL ATHLETIC FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| MEDICINAL WHISKEY CHARITY INC | $15,000 |
| DELTA DENTAL PLANS ASSOCIATION | $14,095 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $13,000 |
| USA CARES INC | $12,800 |
| V-SOFT CARES | $12,500 |
| LOUISVILLE BATS | $12,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 15 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k 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
- LALOUISVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $67k · revenue +7%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $61k · revenue +53%
- UCUnbridled Charitable Foundation Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $32k · revenue ×53
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY ATHLETICSone grant, 2020 · $525k
- LDLOUISVILLE DENTAL SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +75%
- PPROCAMPSone grant, 2023 · $75k
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.
The Kentucky Chamber Foundation's purpose is to unlock the power of business, accelerate solutions, and build opportunity in Kentucky.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
To serve, enhance and represent all aspects of the dental profession in kentucky and to promote the oral health of the public.
Endeavor Louisville is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region.…
Everything we do is market-focused and proactively promotes and protects the interests of the southeast dairy farm families.
To support grassroots organizing, leadership development & public education around important public policy. ky coalition seeks to promote active citizen participation in the democratic process.
The kentucky medical association provides physician advocacy through governmental interaction, legal intervention, and public education, as well as providing physician education through periodic workshops/seminars, and an annual convention…
At kentucky blood center, our mission is to ensure a safe and abundant supply of lifegiving blood to the hospitals we serve. we are here to support our local communities in any way that we are able by being an integral and valued partner…
To acquire, maintain, improve, leverage, manage, lease, and convey real and personal property for the benefit of the university of louisville.
To attract, create, and host quality sporting events in the louisville area that increase economic vitality, enhance the quality of life, promote healthy lifestyles, and brand louisville as a great place to live, work, and play.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Louisville Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smilefaith 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 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 50% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 62 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
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 DELTA DENTAL OF KENUCKY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE DENTAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BOURBON CRUSADERS INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds The Kentucky State Police Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Unbridled Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Inc ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY VARSITY LETTERMANS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEXINGTON CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds USA CARES INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ECONOMIC DIVERSITY DEVELOPME ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Golf Coalition Inc dba The First Tee of Louisivlle ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY ALLIANCE OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY DANCE COUNCIL INC DBA LOUISVILLE BALLET ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds MEDICINAL WHISKEY CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA DENTAL PLANS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds V-SOFT CARES INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY DERBY MUSEUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY CENTER FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Norton Healthcare Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Baptist Healthcare System Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Kindred Foundation Inc · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc
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 Kentucky Inc 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.