· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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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.
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How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Delta Dental of North Carolina funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Delta Dental of North Carolina. Bigger dots raise more.
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