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Delta Dental of Missouri at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
—
States reached
$70k
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$7.8MHuman Services$844kPhilanthropy$624kEducation$489kPublic Benefit$292kArts & Culture$166kCommunity Improvement$160kEnvironment$135kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 42 grants below total $1,157,867, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,253,514 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $95,647 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 $10k4 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $757k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $375k
$25,000
Median grant
—
States reached
$229M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ozarks Community Health Center$70,000
Prisma Health Midlands Foundation$55,000
Medical University of South Carolina$50,000
Regional Healthcare Clinic Inc$50,000
Rural Parish Clinic of the Archdiocese of St Louis$50,000
Kansas City University$50,000
Care Beyond the Boulevard$50,000
Swope Health Services$45,000
Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine$42,099
HNC Living Foundation$40,000
Healthy Smiles of Spartanburg$40,000
Delta Dental Plans Association$32,295
Missouri Coalition for Oral Health$30,000
Give Kids a Smile$30,000
St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation$26,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $392k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Mission Dental South Carolina Inc: $25k → 15%Senior Resources Inc: $25k → 16%Youth In Need: $25k → 5%Ozark Action Inc: $20k → 19%Epworth Children's Home: $10k → 16%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $50k → 12%Healthy Learners: $50k → 16%East Cooper Community Outreach: $40k → 12%Healthy Learners: $50k → 16%Healthy Learners: $25k → 16%Neighbors Together: $25k → 12%Hope House Inc: $17k → 15%Hope House Inc: $15k → 15%Hope House Inc: $15k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
CO
MO
MD
KS
SC
AL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 56 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
56

Total granted

$8.0M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+18%

Still filing today

93%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $458k 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 ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionPublic BenefitOther
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

  • HS
    HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $289k · revenue +31%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $252k · revenue +100%
  • GT
    GATEWAY TO ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2021 · $233k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • RM
    RICHLAND MEDICAL CENTER D/B/A CENTRAL OZARKS MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +6%
  • MC
    MISSOURI COALITION FOR PRIMARY HEALTH CAREgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +38%
  • CT
    COMMUNITY TREATMENT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +28%
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
Community Health Center of Central Missouri

To provide improved access to primary care, behavioral healthcare and oral health care services for medically underserved individuals in central missouri regardless of their ability to pay. our vision is embracing people and inspiring…

Human Services
2
Healthcore Clinic Inc

The mission of healthcore clinic, inc is to provide quality family healthcare through improved access and a heightened and unrelenting focus on education and prevention.

Health
3
Charles River Community Health Inc

To partner with individuals and families so they can thrive and lead healthier lives by delivering the comprehensive, integrated, and equitable primary healthcare that matters most to them.

Health
4
Community Health Center of Se Kansas Inc

To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.

Health
5
Community Health Centers of Southeastern Iowa Inc

To provide primary health care to residents of the greater se iowa region, especially those individuals/families with limited resources or with other barriers to health care. see schedule o for additional information.

Health
6
Heartland Medical Clinic Inc

Heartland offers high-quality, affordable, behavior ally-enhanced primary care to all community members regardless of income or insurance status. heartland is dedicated to practicing holistic, integrated health care in a model that focuses…

Health
7
Community Health Care Inc

Community health care provides the communities we serve with excellence in patient-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care that is compassionate, affordable, and accessible.

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8
Heartland Community Health Clinic D/B/a Heartland Health Services

Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.

Health
9
Northeast Missouri Health Council Inc

The ne mo health council, inc. was established to meet the primary healthcare needs of the residents of ne mo through a not-for-profit community-responsible approach. see schedule o for details.

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10
Community Health Center of Central Wyoming Inc

To maintain a high quality patient care delivery system that provides access to comprehensive health care services, regardless of ability to pay. it is the desire of chccw to treat all patients with the dignity and respect they deserve…

Health
11
Advance Community Health Inc

To deliver quality, compassionate primary health care. every patient. every time. in response to the needs of our communities.

Health
12
Community Dental Care

Our mission is to provide culturally sensitive community oral health care, preventive education, professional training, and to advocate for access for all. our vision is that all people will have access to high quality, affordable dental…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advocates for a Healthy Community Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

103 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. 103 of the 133 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/103
Grantees still filing
74/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION & WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: $708,465 · OtherMISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION & WORKF…GIVE KIDS A SMILE INC: $443,000 · OtherGIVE KIDS A SMILE INCMISSOURI DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $350,000 · OtherMISSOURI DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATIONPHI CHI MEDICAL FRATERNITY INC: $350,000 · OtherPHI CHI MEDICAL FRATERNITY INCOUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES: $185,000 · OtherDELTA AREA ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION: $150,000 · Other+57 more: $2,263,278 · Other+57 moreHEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC: $288,800 · HealthHEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INCST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $251,500 · HealthST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONGATEWAY TO ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $232,617 · HealthGATEWAY TO ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONPRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION: $211,396 · HealthPRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A …MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $199,633 · HealthHNC LIVING FOUNDATION: $185,000 · HealthNorth Charleston Dental Outreach Inc: $175,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE OZARKS INC: $154,250 · HealthBLUFFTON-JASPER COUNTY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INC: $150,000 · HealthSWOPE HEALTH SERVICES: $149,483 · HealthDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $149,000 · HealthCASS COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $148,972 · HealthTRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $148,099 · Health+29 more: $1,345,573 · Health+29 moreTHE DENTAL HEALTH THEATRE INC: $725,000 · EducationTHE DENTAL H…GREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC: $117,100 · EducationGREENVILLE T…ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $90,596 · EducationST LOUIS UNI…MIDLANDS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $61,400 · EducationST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $50,648 · EducationKansas City University: $50,000 · EducationEDWARD VIA VIRGINIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $42,099 · Education+3 more: $80,000 · Education+3 moreCENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC: $140,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $104,100 · PhilanthropyST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL MO: $40,000 · PhilanthropyGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $40,000 · PhilanthropyHEALTHY LEARNERS: $150,000 · Human ServicesEast Cooper Community Outreach: $90,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE INC: $62,410 · Human ServicesMISSION DENTAL SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $49,450 · Human ServicesNeighbors Together Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesSenior Resources Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH IN NEED: $25,000 · Human ServicesOZARK ACTION INC: $19,635 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureEdventure Inc: $20,500 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $35,000 · Youth Development
Other$4,449,743Health$3,789,323Education$1,216,843Philanthropy$624,100Human Services$456,495Arts & Culture$90,500Youth Development$35,000

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 DENTAL HEALTH THEATRE INC: $725,000 over 5y, 51% of budgetGIVE KIDS A SMILE INC: $443,000 over 7y, 47% of budgetMISSOURI DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetHEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC: $288,800 over 7y, 9.8% of budgetST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $251,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGATEWAY TO ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $232,617 over 2y, 13% of budgetPRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION: $211,396 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $199,633 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES: $185,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetHNC LIVING FOUNDATION: $185,000 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetNorth Charleston Dental Outreach Inc: $175,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE OZARKS INC: $154,250 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetBLUFFTON-JASPER COUNTY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetHEALTHY LEARNERS: $150,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetDELTA AREA ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION: $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSWOPE HEALTH SERVICES: $149,483 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $149,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetCASS COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $148,972 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetTRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $148,099 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC: $140,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRURAL PARISH CLINIC: $135,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetHEARTLAND OUTREACH PROVIDERS: $124,812 over 3y, 16% of budgetBIG SPRINGS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION INC: $119,086 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCARESTL HEALTH: $118,614 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC: $117,100 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAdvocates For a Healthy Community Inc: $107,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $104,100 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetVIVENT HEALTH INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetRICHLAND MEDICAL CENTER D/B/A CENTRAL OZARKS MEDICAL CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOURI COALITION FOR PRIMARY HEALTH CARE: $99,999 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY TREATMENT INC: $99,724 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $90,596 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEast Cooper Community Outreach: $90,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCHILDRENS SMILE CENTER CSC: $85,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetWe Care Dental Foundation: $75,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetLEVELUP KIDS INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetOzarks Resource Group: $70,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUPWARD SMILES INC: $70,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $69,443 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY MEDICAL FREE CLINICS: $67,857 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCatholic Charities of South Carolina: $65,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLITTLE RIVER MEDICAL CENTER INC: $63,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC: $62,410 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMIDLANDS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $61,400 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSouth Carolina Dental Association: $60,000 over 2y, 4.5% 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.

Heart to Heart Intern…Health Forward Founda…Sisters of Charity Fo…Commerce Bancshares F…The Leon Levine Found…Central Carolina Comm…Centene FoundationUnited Way of Greater…BlueCross BlueShield …Community Foundation …Youthbridge Community…Employees Community F…
Heart to Heart International IncKS40.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 133 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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