· Public charity
Delta Dental of North Carolina
DELTA DENTAL OF NORTH CAROLINA's mission is to advance and promote the improvement of oral health through prepaid dental services, support for research and education, and community outreach directed toward securing access to quality dental care for all.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DELTA DENTAL FUND | $175,000 |
| STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA | $25,000 |
| POE CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION | $7,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DDDelta Dental Fund6× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue -52%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE NC STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +79%
- DFDENTAL FOUNDATION OF NORTH CAROLINA INC2× · 2017–2019 · $18k · revenue -19%
Funded once
- DDDELTA DENTAL FUNDone grant, 2022 · $400k
- LNLEADERSHIP NORTH CAROLINA INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +37%
- UWUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +329%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Organization's mission is to encourage the improvement of the oral health of the public, promote the art and science of dentistry, encourage maintenance of high standards of professional competence & practice; represent interest of members…
Organization's mission is to identify underserved areas of the state where there are not enough dental practitioners to adequately address the oral health needs of the community, as well as areas with high unemployment or poverty. to…
The north carolina association of pharmacists primary purpose is to unite, serve, and advance the profession of pharmacy for the benefit of society in north carolina.
The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…
Identify, intervene and assist licensed dental professionals who are suffering the consequences of chemical abuse and addiction and mental/emotional disorders.
The unc adams school of dentistry alumni association (uncdaa) exists to support the mission and purpose of the unc adams school of dentistry: transforming dentistry for better health educating and empowering the next generation of leaders…
Our mission is to improve the economic well-being and quality of life for all north carolinians. we do this by collaborating with state, regional, local, and private-sector partners in new business recruitment, existing employer support,…
Provide financial support for all types of education and research within the college of sciences at north carolina state university.
To promote the general welfare of the life science industry and to enhance its contributions to the public welfare.
To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
The north carolina bar association is organized for the purposes of promoting and improving the administration of justice in north carolina; fostering and encouraging law reform when in the public interest; advancing the science of…
To improve the lives of working families - to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation. to accomplish this mission, we will build and change the state's labor movement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership North Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is Moving Nc Forward. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Delta Dental Fund ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NC STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds DENTAL FOUNDATION OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds Moving NC Forward ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA DENTAL SOCIETY 5TH DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds THE ALICE AYCOCK POE CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 North Carolina 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.
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.