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Delta Dental of Rhode Island

Our mission is to deliver impeccable service, quality and innovation that exceeds expectations.

$418k
Granted FY2022
21
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$66k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

83% of Delta Dental of Rhode Island’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Rhode Island Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 20 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Delta Dental of Rhode Island named its own grantees at scale: 18 organizations, $316k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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.

Philanthropy$20MEducation$1.2MHealth$644kHousing & Shelter$283kHuman Services$281kYouth Development$180kFood & Nutrition$130kCommunity Improvement$118kOther$0
02FY2022 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 21 grants below total $315,620 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $417,572 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $101,952 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 · FY2022

  • Under $10k9 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $184k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$139M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMOS HOUSE$65,900
BRYANT UNIVERSITY$49,089
COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL$27,100
CROSSROAD RHODE ISLAND$16,050
FAMILY SERVICE OF RI$13,000
FIRSTWORKS$12,500
GREATER PROVIDENCE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$12,103
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$11,728
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF MA & RI$11,500
MIRIAM HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$11,000
OCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE$10,000
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE$10,000
RHODE ISLAND BUSINESS GROUP HEALTH$9,250
PROVIDENCE TOURISM FUND$9,250
RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION$8,000
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, $362k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE: $10k → 7%OCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE: $6k → 7%OCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE: $6k → 7%OCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE: $6k → 7%COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $27k → 14%OCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE: $6k → 7%OCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE: $6k → 7%OCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE: $6k → 7%FAMILY SERVICE OF RI: $7k → 7%FAMILY SERVICE OF RI: $20k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF RI: $12k → 14%HOPE HEALTH HOSPICE: $8k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF RI: $7k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER PROVIDENCE: $36k → 14%CROSSROAD RHODE ISLAND: $28k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $27k → 14%CROSSROAD RHODE ISLAND: $27k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $26k → 14%CROSSROAD RHODE ISLAND: $16k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $15k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $15k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF RI: $13k → 14%CHILDREN'S FRIEND & SERVICE: $7k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF RI: $6k → 14%CHILDREN'S FRIEND & SERVICE: $6k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER PROVIDENCE: $5k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER PROVIDENCE: $10k → 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.

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 28 repeat orgs$691k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2022, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
12

Total granted

$2.4M
$598k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+50%

Still filing today

89%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k 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 ServicesPublic BenefitFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther

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

  • COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2023 · $264k · revenue +200%
  • MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $223k · revenue +11%
  • CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND
    7× · 2017–2023 · $180k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • Trustees of Tufts Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +39%
  • JW
    JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -33%
  • AP
    American Planning Association 67 Rhode Island Chapgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +50% · 64% 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
Hospital Association of Rhode Island

To be a proactive advocate for the hospitals in rhode island that is capable of working for and with the hospitals to positively influence public opinion, legislative outcomes and regulatory policy. the purpose of such advocacy is to…

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2
The Rhode Island Public Health Foundation

The organization's mission is to eliminate health disparities in rhode island and beyond. the organization develops innovative public health programs, conducts translational and policy research, provides clinical services, and trains…

Health
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
The Alumni Association of the University of Rhode Island

The university of rhode island alumni association informs and engages current and future alumni as committed partners of the university, its missions and traditions.

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5
Rhode Island Health Care Assoc

The mission of rhode island health care association is to enhance its members' ability to provide sustainable quality health care and quality of life to the residents of rhode island's skilled nursing facilities.as a state affiliate of the…

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6
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
7
Newport Hospital Foundation

NHF supports, encourages and coordinates the development of comprehensive, integrated health care-related services for the advancement and well-being of the community, in furtherance of the purposes of Newport Hospital (see Schedule O)

Health
8
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
9
Rhode Island Medical Society

To promote the art and science of medicine for the betterment of public health and to advocate quality patient care and promote the exchange of information

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10
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
11
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
12
Rhode Island Quality Institute

To represent every constituency of healthcare leadership, as well as health insurance, consumer and public interest. to work collaboratively, come up with innovative solutions, champion changes throughout our organizations, and dedicate…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rhode Island Business Group On Health and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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 backsteadyYouth and Family Support Se…Healthcare System OperationsRhode Island Community Orga…Health & Professional Assoc…Providence Community Develo…Community Education & Youth…Member-Based Recreation & Y…Independent & Charter Schoo…
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 51 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%4%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr18%44%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%0%10–20yr17%4%20–35yr14%87%35–55yr18%9%55yr+

The field is 20% 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
11%
469/4,396

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.

04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
38/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $19,577,432 · PhilanthropyTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+1 more — $466,709 · PhilanthropyTrustees of Tufts College — $500,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $264,249 · EducationBRYANT UNIVERSITY — $102,439 · EducationSALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY — $84,050 · EducationPROVIDENCE COLLEGE — $75,960 · Education+4 more — $45,000 · EducationSAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER — $174,603 · OtherAMOS HOUSE — $129,500 · OtherTHE GREATER PROVIDENCE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $117,903 · OtherCVS HEALTH CHARITY CLASSIC INC — $79,500 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC — $67,833 · OtherMCAULEY CORPORATION — $52,920 · OtherJEFFREY OSBORNE CELEBRITY CLASSIC — $37,500 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $71,478 · OtherBROWN UNIVERSITY — $32,000 · Other+11 more — $170,179 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC — $222,575 · HealthRhode Island Hospital Foundation — $92,500 · HealthThe Miriam Hospital Foundation — $61,700 · HealthTHE RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC INC — $35,692 · HealthTHUNDERMIST HEALTH CENTER — $17,000 · Health+6 more — $48,804 · HealthCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND — $180,450 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $90,848 · Human ServicesGREATER PROVIDENCE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $51,375 · Human ServicesOCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $46,000 · Human Services+2 more — $20,073 · Human ServicesRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — $120,405 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $10,000 · Food & NutritionFIRSTWORKS — $64,500 · Arts & CultureRHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$20,044,141Education$1,071,698Other$933,416Health$478,271Human Services$388,746Food & Nutrition$130,405Arts & Culture$74,500

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 RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $19,577,432 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $466,709 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $264,249 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC — $222,575 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND — $180,450 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER — $174,603 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetAMOS HOUSE — $129,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — $120,405 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREATER PROVIDENCE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $117,903 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY — $102,439 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island Hospital Foundation — $92,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $90,848 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY — $84,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCVS HEALTH CHARITY CLASSIC INC — $79,500 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE — $75,960 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $71,478 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC — $67,833 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetFIRSTWORKS — $64,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetThe Miriam Hospital Foundation — $61,700 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMCAULEY CORPORATION — $52,920 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER PROVIDENCE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $51,375 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $46,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC INC — $35,692 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $32,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOMORROW FUND — $26,350 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetRHODE ISLAND BUSINESS GROUP ON HEALTH — $24,250 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHUNDERMIST HEALTH CENTER — $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE — $12,573 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Planning Association 67 Rhode Island Chap — $10,325 over 1y, 64% of budgetTHE LEARNING COMMNUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WHEELER SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELTA DENTAL PLANS ASSOCIATION — $9,814 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Providence Tourism Fund — $9,250 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION INC — $8,524 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBradley Hospital Foundation — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE HOSPICE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALS UNITED RHODE ISLAND — $6,530 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK — $5,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI — $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND — $5,050 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

The Rhode Island Comm…United Way of Rhode I…Amica Companies Found…The Champlin Foundati…Citizens Charitable F…The Beacon FoundationHarborone Foundation …Washington Trust Co C…Ralph R Papitto & Bar…Bristol County Saving…Ida Ballou Littlefiel…June Rockwell Levy Fo…
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI42.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Beacon Foundation · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated

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 Rhode Island 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 · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 52 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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