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Delta Dental of Kenucky Foundation Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Private foundation

Delta Dental of Kenucky Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

96% of Delta Dental of Kenucky Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of Louisville Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’22
1
’23
4
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Philanthropy$6.5MHealth$200kPublic Safety & Disaster$135kEducation$105kInternational$69kReligion$45kCivil Rights$25kCommunity Improvement$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $73k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.8M
$20,800
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC$1,760,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$37,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KENTUCKIANA$20,800
SMILEFAITH FOUNDATION INC$15,000
HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA$2,500
02The need
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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 (FY22–22, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOPE & PEACE FOUNDATION: $10k → 18%THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $25k → 15%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.
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 37% of Delta Dental of Kenucky Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Delta Dental of Kenucky Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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
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.

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Alliance Healthcare Foundation
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2
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
3
Northern Virginia Health Foundation
Philanthropy
4
J&J Independent Foundation
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5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
Healthcare Partners Institute for
Education
7
The Arh Foundation for Healthier Communities Inc

To further healthcare, education and community involvement in eastern kentucky and southern west virginia through philanthropy and fundraising for appalachia.

Health
8
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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9
Lafayette General Foundation Inc

The lafayette general foundation was created to support lafayette general health (lgh), acadiana's only community-owned, nonprofit health system. we exist to help fulfill lgh's mission, to restore, maintain, and improve health. our role is…

Health
10
Cardinal Health Foundation
Education
11
Healthcare Initiative Foundation
Health
12
United Health Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Health Foundation Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $6,290,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INCIndependence Foundation Inc: $225,000 · PhilanthropyNORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · HealthAPPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE: $50,000 · HealthSMILEFAITH INC: $45,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $37,000 · HealthCommonwealth Health Foundation Inc: $10,000 · HealthVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC: $54,300 · OtherMIDWEST BASKETBALL CLUB: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherGRAVES COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $25,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FINANCIAL SERVICES BANK: $25,000 · OtherMARSHALL COUNTY NONPROFIT PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Other+3 more: $12,500 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $80,300 · InternationalTHE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesHOPE & PEACE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWATERSTEP INC: $15,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$6,515,000Health$242,000Other$241,800International$80,300Human Services$35,000Youth Development$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $6,290,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetIndependence Foundation Inc: $225,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetNORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $80,300 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetAPPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILEFAITH INC: $45,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $37,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARSHALL COUNTY NONPROFIT PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWATERSTEP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHOPE & PEACE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetCommonwealth Health Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

The Community Foundat…Republic Bank Foundat…Honorable Order of Ke…Brown-Forman Foundati…C E and S Foundation …Kindred Foundation IncLift a Life Foundatio…The Gheens Foundation…The Whas Crusade for …The Community Foundat…Baird Foundation IncGe Aerospace Foundati…
The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository IncKY19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Brown-Forman Foundation · C E and S Foundation Inc · Kindred Foundation Inc · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 20 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-PF 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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