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Delta Dental of Minnesota Foundation

DELTA DENTAL OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is committed to improving oral health, expanding access to dental care, and helping communities thrive across minnesota.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$29MEducation$6.8MPhilanthropy$5.5MYouth Development$2.4MEmployment$1.4MArts & Culture$1.0MFood & Nutrition$45kHuman Services$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 34 grants below total $10,475,778 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,074,416 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $598,638 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $267k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+11 grants · $8.6M
$124,896
Median grant
3
States reached
$156M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINIC$3,000,000
NORMANDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$2,000,000
Individual grant recipient$679,982
CENTRAL LAKES COLLEGE FOUNDATION$500,000
COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH GROUP INC$494,090
ROCHESTER COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE$350,000
ANOKA-RAMSEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$350,000
CENTURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$350,000
CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$300,000
CHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES$290,000
COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE$290,000
LIVING WELL DISABILITY SERVICES INC$200,000
METROPOLITAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC$200,000
MINNESOTA ORAL HEALTH COALITION$160,600
CARE CLINIC$150,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $370k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $20k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES INC: $40k → 11%METROPOLITAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC: $200k → 14%METROPOLITAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC: $110k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 11% of Delta Dental of Minnesota Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 72% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Delta Dental of Minnesota Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 19% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$33M · 48 repeat orgs$8.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
25

Total granted

$33M
$3.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+15%

Still filing today

85%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • NA
    NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINIC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +212%
  • CD
    CHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +88%
  • TS
    THE SANNEH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $2.4M · revenue +162% · 48% of their budget

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
    one grant, 2022 · $2.4M
  • MH
    MINNESOTA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $400k · revenue -10%
  • HT
    HENNEPIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $375k · revenue +69% · 32% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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
Mn Community Measurement

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

Health
3
Minnesota Hospital Foundation

The minnesota hospital foundation works on strategies that include data-led quality and safety improvement, education, research, training and leadership to improve the health of minnesotans.

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4
The Foundation for Health Care Continuums

The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.

Health
5
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
6
Dental Clinics North

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

Health
7
Regional West Health Services

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

Health
8
Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc

We make a positive difference in the health of the patients and communities we serve.

Health
9
Northland Health Care Access

Operating an integrated community health system providing access to health care for the uninsured low income residents of three counties in Missouri

Health
10
Northwest Community Healthcare

NORTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE follows the mission of Endeavor Health. The mission of Endeavor Health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." Central to this mission is a commitment to providing clinical programs and…

Health
11
Northland Health Partners Community Health Center

Northland community health center is committed to providing access to affordable and quality health services.

Health
12
United Hospital District

At United Hospital District, we exist to provide and promote appropriate health care services to the communities we serve, doing so in a safe and healing environment which supports our patient-centered care philosophy.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Oral Health America Americas Fund for Dental Health Bk 20-04264. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyProfessional Trade Associat…Community Foundations and I…Education Funding Foundatio…Community Health CentersEthnic Community Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr13%2%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr15%35%35–55yr15%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr18%39%20–35yr15%19%35–55yr15%37%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/86
the rest of the field
13%
2,451/19,022

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.

05the grantee network

76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 87 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.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/76
Grantees still filing
53/76
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINIC — $3,615,000 · HealthNATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINICCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC — $3,108,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INCCOMMUNITY DENTAL CARE — $1,425,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY DENTAL CAREHealthFinders Collaborative Inc — $1,415,000 · HealthHealthFinders Collaborative IncNorthPoint Health and Wellness Center Inc — $1,294,000 · HealthNorthPoint Health and Wellness Center IncMINNESOTA ORAL HEALTH COALITION — $1,110,600 · HealthMINNESOTA ORAL HEALTH COALITIONCEDAR RIVERSIDE PEOPLE'S CENTER — $865,000 · Health+28 more — $5,797,000 · Health+28 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $2,385,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTANormandale Community College Foundation Inc — $2,000,000 · OtherNormandale Community College Foun…APPLE TREE DENTAL — $1,125,000 · OtherAPPLE TREE DENTALWalker Methodist Foundation — $1,006,000 · OtherWalker Methodist FoundationIndividual grant recipient — $679,982 · OtherHENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY — $675,000 · OtherHOPE DENTAL CLINIC — $640,000 · OtherMINNESOTA ZOO — $595,000 · OtherCENTRAL LAKES COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $575,000 · OtherCOMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH GROUP INC — $494,090 · OtherFOND DU LAC TRIBAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $490,000 · Other+28 more — $3,263,300 · Other+28 moreTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $5,500,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MINNEAPOL…+1 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $2,253,896 · EducationUNIVERSITY …MINNESOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION — $1,220,000 · EducationMINNESOTA D…HENNEPIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $375,000 · EducationHENNEPIN TE…ROCHESTER COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEG — $350,000 · EducationROCHESTER C…CENTURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $350,000 · EducationCENTURY COL…+1 more — $50,000 · EducationTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION — $2,425,000 · Youth DevelopmentTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $592,492 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $591,057 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $400,000 · Community ImprovementINITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Community Improvement
Health$18,629,600Other$13,928,372Philanthropy$5,505,000Education$4,598,896Youth Development$2,425,000Arts & Culture$1,183,549Community Improvement$430,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $5,500,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINIC — $3,615,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC — $3,108,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION — $2,425,000 over 3y, 48% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $2,253,896 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNormandale Community College Foundation Inc — $2,000,000 over 1y, 97% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL CARE — $1,425,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetHealthFinders Collaborative Inc — $1,415,000 over 5y, 36% of budgetNorthPoint Health and Wellness Center Inc — $1,294,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetMINNESOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION — $1,220,000 over 6y, 79% of budgetAPPLE TREE DENTAL — $1,125,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetMINNESOTA ORAL HEALTH COALITION — $1,110,600 over 5y, 63% of budgetWalker Methodist Foundation — $1,006,000 over 3y, 89% of budgetCEDAR RIVERSIDE PEOPLE'S CENTER — $865,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetHOPE DENTAL CLINIC — $640,000 over 5y, 46% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $592,492 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $591,057 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL LAKES COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $575,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetMISSISSIPPI HEADWATERS AREA DENTAL DBA NORTHERN DENTAL ACCESS CENTER — $555,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC — $550,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetUNITED FAMILY PRACTICE HEALTH CENTER — $531,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetSAWTOOTH MOUNTAIN CLINIC INC — $503,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetST JOSEPH'S AREA HEALTH SERVICES — $475,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMINNESOTA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $400,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCARRIS HEALTH FOUNDATION — $395,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetHENNEPIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $375,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICE INC — $366,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetROCHESTER COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEG — $350,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetCENTURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $350,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — $310,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMetropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc — $310,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDRENS DENTAL HEALTH SERVICES — $306,500 over 7y, 11% of budgetOPEN CITIES HEALTH CENTER INC — $306,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetFAMILY HEALTHCARE CENTER — $290,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetC A R E Clinic — $285,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetNORTHWEST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $274,110 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetPORTICO HEALTHNET — $250,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetOPEN DOOR HEALTH CENTER — $222,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLiving Well Disability Services — $220,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDOORSTEP HEALTHCARE SERVICES — $151,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetJUST KIDS DENTAL INC — $150,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetGillette Children's Hospital Foundation — $125,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLETS SMILE — $125,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetMinnesota Council on Foundations — $123,750 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetREADY SET SMILE PA — $110,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetNorth Shore Health Care Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetAMERICA'S TOOTHFAIRY NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetLAKE SUPERIOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

Otto Bremer TrustMedica FoundationStratacorDelta Dental of Minne…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Ucare FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…The Richard M Schulze…Ucare MinnesotaFr Bigelow FoundationAmerica's Toothfairy …Allina Health System
Otto Bremer TrustMN75× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Medica Foundation · Stratacor · Delta Dental of Minnesota · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Ucare Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Ucare Minnesota · Fr Bigelow Foundation · America's Toothfairy National Children's Oral Health Foundation · Allina Health System

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 Minnesota Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your 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
    16report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Delta Dental of Minnesota Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Delta Dental of Minnesota Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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