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· Public charity

Delta Dental of South Dakota Foundation

To initiate, collaborate and/or support programs that increase access to care, ensure an adequate dental work force and prevent dental disease.

$655k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$76k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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 2025.

Health$2.3MPhilanthropy$1.2MFood & Nutrition$300kEducation$81kHuman Services$25kEmployment$8k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $164,484, the rows itemized in this filing. The $654,666 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $490,182 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $72k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
$17,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SD DENTAL FOUNDATION$76,484
SD DENTAL ASSOCIATION$20,000
HORIZON HEALTH FOUNDATION$20,000
USD DEPT OF DENTAL HYGIENE$17,000
SD DENTAL HYGIENE ASSOCIATION$15,000
WESTERN DAKOTA TECHNICAL COLLEGE$8,500
RUTGERS SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE$7,500
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 (FY24–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CALL TO FREEDOM: $7k → 9%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 36% of Delta Dental of South Dakota Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in SD; by stated purpose, 71%.

Delta Dental of South Dakota Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 28% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 11 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
7

Total granted

$1.7M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+38%

Still filing today

73%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyHealthFood & NutritionReligionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • SD
    SOUTH DAKOTA DENTAL ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $507k · revenue +28%
  • FS
    FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA
    2× · 2019–2020 · $300k · revenue +13%
  • SD
    SOUTH DAKOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2025 · $203k · revenue +16% · 58% of their budget

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.1M · revenue +45%
  • SH
    SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +44%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF THE BLACK HILLSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $33k · revenue +38%
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 State University Foundation

Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.

Education
2
North Dakota Dental Foundation

Our mission is to enhance oral health for all individuals. to achieve this goal, we concentrate our efforts on three key areas: 1) access to care, 2) education, and 3) workforce development.

Philanthropy
3
South Dakota State University Foundation

Enhancing excellence by cultivating generosity and treasuring the loyalty of all we serve.

Education
4
South Dakota Dental Association

It is the mission of the south dakota dental association to promote the art and science of dentistry and the oral health of the public; educate the public on the benefits of quality preventative and restorative dentistry as provided by the…

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5
Sd Association of Healthcare Organizations

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

—
6
North Dakota University System Foundation

The function of the north dakota university system foundation is to support, enrich, advance and improve higher education in the state of north dakota, and to assist its students, faculty and staff.

Philanthropy
7
South Dakota Voices for Peace

Sd voices for peace provides five programming areas to assist vulnerable communities access services throughout the state: legal services, multilingual outreach, training and education, advocacy and civic engagement and rapid response.

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8
South Dakota Dental Foundation

The mission of the south dakota dental foundation is to advocate for the improved oral health of south dakota's citizens through the education of the profession and the public and by serving those individuals and organizations having…

Health
9
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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10
Dakota State University Foundation

Dakota state university foundation is an independent non-profit corporation established for the purpose of raising and managing private funding for the benefit of dakota state university.

Education
11
Southeastern North Dakota Community Action Agency

Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…

Human Services
12
Valley City State University Foundation

Valley City State University Foundation aids in the advancement of Valley City State University by awarding scholarships and by promoting the University. Support comes primarily from contributions by individuals and businesses, fundraising…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Dakota Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Usd Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $925,000 · PhilanthropySOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONUSD FOUNDATION: $251,000 · PhilanthropyUSD FOUNDATIONSANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION: $1,100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUND…+1 more: $7,500 · EducationSOUTH DAKOTA DENTAL ASSOCIATION: $507,456 · OtherSOUTH DAKOTA DENTAL ASSOCIA…ST FRANCIS MISSION FOUNDATION: $175,000 · OtherST FRANCIS MISSION FOUNDATI…SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $97,000 · OtherSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSI…HORIZON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherSIOUX FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT #49-5: $38,846 · OtherCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF THE BLACK HILLS: $33,367 · OtherWESTERN DAKOTA VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL FOUNDATION INC: $32,546 · Other+2 more: $35,000 · OtherFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA: $300,000 · Food & NutritionSOUTH DAKOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $203,484 · Health+1 more: $6,000 · HealthSt Francis Mission: $50,000 · ReligionSOUTH DAKOTA DENTAL HYGIENISTS ASSN: $40,000 · Community ImprovementCALL TO FREEDOM: $7,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$1,226,000Education$1,107,500Other$959,215Food & Nutrition$300,000Health$209,484Religion$50,000Community Improvement$40,000Human Services$7,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION: $1,100,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $925,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA DENTAL ASSOCIATION: $507,456 over 8y, 16% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA: $300,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUSD FOUNDATION: $251,000 over 3y, 90% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $203,484 over 3y, 58% of budgetSANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Francis Mission: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA DENTAL HYGIENISTS ASSN: $40,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetHORIZON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF THE BLACK HILLS: $33,367 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWESTERN DAKOTA VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL FOUNDATION INC: $32,546 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCITIZENS INVOLVEMENT COUNCIL: $25,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALL TO FREEDOM: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICA'S TOOTHFAIRY NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

South Dakota Communit…Sioux Falls Area Comm…Oahe FoundationBlack Hills Area Comm…Avera HealthFirst Interstate Banc…Sheldon F Reese Found…Larson FoundationSanford Group ReturnMidcontinent Foundati…Raymond James Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…
South Dakota Community FoundationSD27.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: South Dakota Community Foundation · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Oahe Foundation · Black Hills Area Community Foundation · Avera Health · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Sheldon F Reese Foundation · Larson Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Midcontinent Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to Delta Dental of South Dakota Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Delta Dental of South Dakota Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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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