· Public charity
Delta Dental of Tennessee Inc
Our mission is ensuring healthy smiles.
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.
The 41 grants below total $1,138,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,404,598 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $265,998 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $564k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $546k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $125,000 |
| ALSACST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $110,700 |
| MUSIC CITY BOWL INC | $80,000 |
| GOVERNOR'S EARLY LITERACY FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| ERLANGER FOUNDATION | $53,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $52,000 |
| HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE | $50,000 |
| TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE | $35,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $35,000 |
| LE BONHEUR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $32,000 |
| AUTOZONE LIBERTY BOWL | $29,000 |
| UNIVERISTY OF TENNESSEE | $26,000 |
| SCOTT HAMILTON CARES FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS TENNESSEE | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $406k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 5 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +178%
- ALAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +119%
- GEGOVERNOR'S EARLY LITERACY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $660k · revenue +169%
Funded once
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +700%
- NCNASHVILLE CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAUgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +28%
- NRNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSIONone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -4%
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.
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
Ntc mission is to advance the diverse technology ecosystem by connecting and promoting members, attracting, growing and retaining tech talent, and providing opportunities to reinvest in the greater nashville community.
To be a successful physician led, professionally managed medical practice that benefits our patients and our community, while supporting the UT Health Science Center's mission through clinical excellence, financial responsibility and a…
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient and family-centered care. services will be…
The nashville chamber public benefit foundation supports the work of the nashville area chamber of commerce through efforts to improve the quality of education, encourage public and private efforts around education, and to facilitate the…
Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
The nashville academy of medicine is dedicated to supporting physicians in greater nashville who provide quality medical care and are pledged to uphold high standards of conduct. we promote physician health, practice health, and community…
To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.
Providing education and information to the public and its members and to sponsor various healthcare related workshops, conferences, and publications to improve quality of healthcare statewide.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Tennessee Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Educational Advancement Center for Boys. 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
82 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 82 of the 89 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 Smile 180 Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR'S EARLY LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSIC CITY BOWL INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ERLANGER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCOTT HAMILTON CARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds WEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN ↗
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- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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- Who funds CABLE FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
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- Who funds KNOXVILLE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS MUSEUMS OF SCIENCE & HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Covenant Health Foundation ↗
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: Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · Smile 180 Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Tennessee Titans Foundation · Tennessee Health Foundation Inc · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Vanderbilt University · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation · Enchiridion 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 Tennessee Inc 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.