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Delta Dental of Minnesota

DELTA DENTAL OF MINNESOTA operates a nonprofit health service plan to make dental care available that advances oral health in the communities we serve.

$566k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$63k
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$1.2MRecreation & Sports$288kYouth Development$205kEducation$193kArts & Culture$78kCommunity Improvement$78kFood & Nutrition$71kCivil Rights$69kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $343,681, the rows itemized in this filing. The $565,819 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $222,138 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 $10k14 grants · $103k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $178k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
$9,104
Median grant
6
States reached
$111M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COOK AREA HEALTH SERVICES INC$62,500
PORTICO HEALTHNET$33,500
THE SANNEH FOUNDATION$25,500
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS$15,000
NORTH DAKOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION$15,000
BOLDER OPTIONS$14,984
ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION$14,250
MINNESOTA SPORTS AND EVENTS$12,500
THE RAE MACKENZIE GROUP INC$12,500
CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$10,000
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN INDIAN DENTISTS$9,104
AMERICAN DENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION DBA ADEA$9,104
PLANET SMILEZ INC$9,104
Individual grant recipient$9,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $193k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INTERCULTURAL MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOC OF SE MN: $15k → 9%INTERCULTURAL MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 9%MANKATO YOUTH PLACE INC: $10k → 15%INTERCULTURAL MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 9%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY INC: $15k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY INC: $15k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY INC: $5k → 11%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL: $13k → 14%LISTENING HOUSE OF ST PAUL INC: $6k → 14%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $13k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $8k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES INC: $20k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES INC: $18k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES INC: $13k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS MINNESOTA & DAKOTAS REGION: $8k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS MINNESOTA & DAKOTAS REGION: $5k → 11%YWCA MINNEAPOLIS: $13k → 11%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Delta Dental of Minnesota’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 69%.

Delta Dental of Minnesotalessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 24% 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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 35 repeat orgs$659k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
31

Total granted

$1.6M
$502k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+14%

Still filing today

91%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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

  • MS
    MINNESOTA SPORTS AND EVENTS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $238k · revenue ×70 · 32% of their budget
  • PH
    PORTICO HEALTHNET
    3× · 2021–2024 · $121k · revenue +30%
  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $113k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • SM
    SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA
    one grant, 2023 · $68k · revenue +14%
  • MS
    MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • WS
    WEST SIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +32%
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
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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2
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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3
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
4
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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5
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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6
Indian Health Board of Minneapolis Inc

The mission of indian health board of minneapolis, inc. is to ensure access to quality health care services for american indians and other peoples and to promote health education and wellness.

Health
7
Dental Clinics North

To provide comprehensive public dental health care services to the communities of northern michigan and neighboring regions.

Health
8
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
9
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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10
Minnesota Community Healthcare Network

Minnesota community healthcare networks (mchn) mission is to transform the lives of people with mental illness by forming regional alliances to create and continuously improve comprehensive treatment and integrated care models that promote…

Health
11
Glencoe Regional Health Services

Glencoe regional health services exists to improve every life by offering high-quality, safe, and accessible healthcare. we are dedicated to strengthening healthcare by connecting our communities, enhancing the patient experience,…

Health
12
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Dental Care; the most unlike its peers is Ecumen Sbc 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

68 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. 68 of the 78 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/68
Grantees still filing
47/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PORTICO HEALTHNET: $121,000 · HealthPORTICO HEALTHNETCOMMUNITY DENTAL CARE: $75,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY DENTAL CARECOOK AREA HEALTH SERVICES INC: $62,500 · HealthCOOK AREA HEALTH SERVICES INCHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $58,000 · HealthHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATIONC A R E Clinic: $56,500 · HealthC A R E ClinicST MARYS HEALTH CLINICS: $38,500 · HealthST MARYS HEALTH CLINICSREADY SET SMILE PA: $37,500 · HealthREADY SET SMILE PACHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC: $35,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES IN…WEST SIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $25,000 · HealthOPEN CITIES HEALTH CENTER INC: $25,000 · HealthNorthPoint Health and Wellness Center Inc: $25,000 · HealthJUST KIDS DENTAL INC: $23,500 · Health+3 more: $27,135 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES INC: $112,500 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES INCGREATER BEMIDJI INC: $52,500 · OtherGREATER BEMIDJI INCSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC: $52,500 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INCCOMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICE INC: $45,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICE INCACCESSPOINT DENTAL LLC: $36,834 · OtherCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $52,500 · OtherCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUNDSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $35,000 · Other+25 more: $330,958 · Other+25 moreUniversity of St Thomas: $63,750 · EducationUniversity of S…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $42,500 · EducationUNITED NEGRO CO…ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationST CATHERINE UN…Bolder Options: $39,984 · EducationBolder OptionsSahan Journal: $22,500 · EducationSahan JournalUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $18,252 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF M…Society of American Indian Dentist Inc: $18,212 · EducationSociety of Amer…MINNESOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationNAF: $14,570 · EducationMIGIZI Communications Inc: $12,500 · Education+3 more: $25,491 · Education+3 moreMINNESOTA SPORTS AND EVENTS: $237,500 · Community ImprovementMINNESOTA S…Hammer Residences Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesHammer Re…GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $35,000 · Human ServicesGREATER M…INTERCULTURAL MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA: $35,000 · Human ServicesINTERCULT…THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDG…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $12,779 · Human ServicesAmerican …Young Women's Christian Association of St Paul: $12,500 · Human ServicesYoung Wom…YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $12,500 · Human ServicesYWCA OF M…MANKATO YOUTH PLACE INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,627 · Human ServicesTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION: $75,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE BEMIDJI AREA: $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentWELCH CENTER INC D/B/A VALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROCHESTER: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $67,500 · Arts & CultureMILL CITY FARMERS MARKET CHARITABLE FUND: $36,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$609,635Other$767,792Education$312,759Community Improvement$237,500Human Services$193,406Youth Development$128,000Arts & Culture$103,500

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 budgetMINNESOTA SPORTS AND EVENTS: $237,500 over 4y, 32% of budgetPORTICO HEALTHNET: $121,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES INC: $112,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION: $75,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL CARE: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $67,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $63,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOOK AREA HEALTH SERVICES INC: $62,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $58,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetC A R E Clinic: $56,500 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetGREATER BEMIDJI INC: $52,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC: $52,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $52,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHammer Residences Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $42,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBolder Options: $39,984 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetST MARYS HEALTH CLINICS: $38,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetREADY SET SMILE PA: $37,500 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetMILL CITY FARMERS MARKET CHARITABLE FUND: $36,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetINTERCULTURAL MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA: $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWEST SIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS DOWNTOWN COUNCIL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOPEN CITIES HEALTH CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE DENTAL CLINIC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSahan Journal: $22,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $18,252 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSociety of American Indian Dentist Inc: $18,212 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE BEMIDJI AREA: $17,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMINNESOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNAF: $14,570 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION: $14,250 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $13,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $12,779 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWELCH CENTER INC D/B/A VALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $12,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetOASIS FOR YOUTH: $12,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROCHESTER: $12,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of St Paul: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIGIZI Communications Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTHSOURCE: $11,500 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.

StratacorOtto Bremer TrustDelta Dental of Minne…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Medica FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationMardag FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…Greater Twin Cities U…Ucare FoundationAllina Health System
StratacorMN108.6× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stratacor · Otto Bremer Trust · Delta Dental of Minnesota Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Medica Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Mardag Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Ucare Foundation · Allina Health System

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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
    0get no government money at all
    22report 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 78 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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