Missouri · Public charity
Delta Dental of Missouri
The organization's primary purpose is to improve the dental health of the public by promoting preventive dentistry and providing comprehensive dental care and maintenance on a prepaid basis.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 42
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 44
- FY2017 to FY2023
- Total assets, FY2024
- $229M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Delta Dental of Missouri funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $301k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 42 | $1.2M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $1.1M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $1.4M | 43% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $1.4M | 40% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $1.4M | 53% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $1.0M | 39% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $1.3M | 57% |
| FY2017 | 22 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dental Health Theatre Inc | $725,000 | 5 | 51% |
| Missouri Department of Higher Education & Workforce Development | $708,465 | 7 | n/a |
| Give Kids a Smile Inc | $443,000 | 7 | 47% |
| Missouri Dental Association Foundation | $350,000 | 3 | 50% |
| Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Inc | $350,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Healthy Smiles of Spartanburg Inc | $288,800 | 7 | 10% |
| St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation | $251,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Gateway to Oral Health Foundation | $232,617 | 2 | 13% |
| Prisma Health Midlands Foundation F/K/A Palmetto Health Foundation | $211,396 | 4 | 3% |
| Medical University of South Carolina Foundation | $199,633 | 2 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Delta Dental of Missouri supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 97 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Heart to Heart International Inc · Health Forward Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Centene Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company
How this is measured
About Delta Dental of Missouri
- How much does Delta Dental of Missouri give?
- Delta Dental of Missouri reported 42 itemized grants totaling $1,157,867, out of $1,253,514 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Delta Dental of Missouri fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (73%), Human Services (8%), Philanthropy (6%).
- Who are Delta Dental of Missouri's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Dental Health Theatre Inc ($725k), Missouri Department of Higher Education & Workforce Development ($708k), Give Kids a Smile Inc ($443k).
- Does Delta Dental of Missouri fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Delta Dental of Missouri?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Heart to Heart International Inc, Health Forward Foundation, Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina.
- Where is Delta Dental of Missouri based?
- Delta Dental of Missouri is based in MO.
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