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Delta Dental of South Dakota

Delta Dental of South Dakota is dedicated to advancing and promoting the improvement of oral health.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.4M
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$17MPhilanthropy$1.6MYouth Development$442kCommunity Improvement$400kHuman Services$390kRecreation & Sports$152kPublic Benefit$130kScience & Tech$110kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $293k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
$50,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Delta Dental of South Dakota Foundation$1,448,154
SD Community Foundation$250,000
Oahe Hockey Foundation$100,000
Capital Area United Way$92,212
Avera Foundation$50,500
City of Pierre$50,000
SD Discovery Center$10,000
Oahe Habitat$10,000
SD Dental Foundation$5,200
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $508k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OAHE YMCA: $203k → 10%MISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $103k → 10%OAHE YMCA: $102k → 10%MISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER: $100k → 10%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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 14 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
2

Total granted

$19M
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+205%

Still filing today

71%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $626k · revenue +8%
  • MS
    MISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER
    2× · 2022–2024 · $203k · revenue +179%
  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA COUNSELING SERVICEINC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $173k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • PS
    PIERRE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 32-2 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +205%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +34%
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
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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2
Protecting South Dakota Kids Foundation
Education
3
Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997
Philanthropy
4
Sd Association of Healthcare Organizations

Advancing healthy communities through a unified voice across the health care continuum.

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5
South Dakota Renegades Inc
Recreation & Sports
6
Sacred Heart Health Services

Avera is a health ministry rooted in the Gospel. Our mission is to make a positive impact in the lives and health of persons and communities by providing quality services guided by Christian values.

Health
7
South Dakota Access for Every Woman

Giving women the resources they need to make the choice that is right for her. assisting 187 women through pledges to clinic payments

—
8
Avera St Luke's

Avera is a health ministry rooted in the Gospel. Our mission is to make a positive impact in the lives and health of persons and communities by providing quality services guided by Christian values.

Health
9
Avera at Home

Avera is a health ministry rooted in the Gospel. Our mission is to make a positive impact in the lives and health of persons and communities by providing quality services guided by Christian values.

Health
10
South Dakota Youth Foundation

Giving every child an opportunity to develop character and live a healthy lifestyle in the schools and communities where they grow up.

Youth Development
11
South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations Healthcare Research Educ

To facilitate quality and clinical education programs and a wide variety of other services such as web-based programs, webinars, grants, training products and publications to assist health care providers in meeting state and federal…

Community Improvement
12
Delta Dental of South Dakota

Delta Dental of South Dakota is dedicated to advancing and promoting the improvement of oral health.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delta Dental of South Dakota Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Pierre School District No 32-2 Educational Foundation. 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

17 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. 17 of the 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DELTA DENTAL OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION: $16,580,202 · HealthDELTA DENTAL OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION+4 more: $339,900 · HealthSOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $993,721 · PhilanthropySOUTH DAKOT…CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY: $625,820 · PhilanthropyCAPITAL ARE…OAHE FOUNDATION: $400,000 · PhilanthropyOAHE FOUNDA…OAHE YMCA: $187,000 · OtherAVERA MCKENNAN FOUNDATION: $153,085 · OtherB&GC OF THE CAPITAL AREA: $136,914 · OtherCITY OF PIERRE: $130,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY & YOUTH INVOLVED INC: $90,180 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherOAHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $304,750 · Human ServicesMISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $203,019 · Human ServicesOAHE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $152,110 · Recreation & SportsSouth Dakota Discovery Center: $110,000 · AnimalsPIERRE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 32-2 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10,300 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education
Health$16,920,102Philanthropy$2,019,541Other$707,179Human Services$507,769Recreation & Sports$152,110Animals$110,000Education$15,300

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 budgetDELTA DENTAL OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION: $16,580,202 over 9y, 74% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $993,721 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY: $625,820 over 9y, 15% of budgetOAHE FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetOAHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $304,750 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetMISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $203,019 over 2y, 13% of budgetCAPITAL AREA COUNSELING SERVICEINC: $172,925 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetOAHE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $152,110 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetSouth Dakota Discovery Center: $110,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetAvera Health: $105,925 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY & YOUTH INVOLVED INC: $90,180 over 3y, 24% of budgetAvera St Mary's: $50,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $10,550 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPIERRE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 32-2 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10,300 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Oahe FoundationSouth Dakota Communit…Avera HealthSioux Falls Area Comm…Capital Area United W…Sioux Steel Company F…Ram FoundationSanford Group ReturnRenaissance Charitabl…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Oahe FoundationSD34.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oahe Foundation · South Dakota Community Foundation · Avera Health · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Capital Area United Way · Sioux Steel Company Foundation · Ram Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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