· Public charity
Delta Dental of Virginia Foundation
The foundation works to improve the oral health of all virginians through financial support of research and education initiatives and programs that provide access to care for the underserved.
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 23 grants below total $1,302,271 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,565,331 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $263,060 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
- $10k–50k9 grants · $195k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STATE HEALTH PARTNERS LLC | $147,500 |
| NORTHERN NECK- MIDDLESEX CLINIC | $100,000 |
| BRADLEY FREE CLINIC | $100,000 |
| KUUMBA COMMUNITY HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER | $75,000 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC | $75,000 |
| THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC | $75,000 |
| MISSION DENTAL VIRGINIA INC | $75,000 |
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| VIRGINIA HEALTH CATALYST | $73,860 |
| FAUQUIER FREE CLINIC | $73,000 |
| GERMANA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $69,020 |
| HAMPTON ROADS ECUMENICAL LODGING & PROVISIONS INC | $64,000 |
| FREE CLINIC OF POWHATAN INC | $55,000 |
| BLAND MINISTRY CLINIC | $50,000 |
| ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC | $45,000 |
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, $474k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 4 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $252k 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
- BFBRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $422k · revenue +99%
- AFARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC8× · 2017–2024 · $299k · revenue +43%
- TCTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC6× · 2017–2024 · $297k · revenue +140%
Funded once
- CCCarilion Clinic Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +82%
- WCWYTHEVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +77%
- ECEO COMPANIESgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +233%
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.
The free clinic of franklin county, inc is founded on the belief that everyone should have access to quality, affordable, primary health care regardless of their socio-economic or insurance status.
Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.
To provide for the basic medical and dental needs of the working poor of Rockingham County through volunteer medical professionals.
Macon Volunteer Clinic (MVC)provides free primary medical and dental care, as well as medication assistance, to uninsured, working adult residents of Middle Georgia. All patients live at or below 200% of federal poverty level.
To provide free, non-judgmental, quality healthcare to those in need by using a solid base of culturally diverse community resources.
To provide free medical care to the working uninsured citizens in greene county, virginia.
Community health center
To provide primary care services at no cost to uninsured and underinsured low income residents of west virginia.
To promote and provide quality primary health care that is accessible, affordable, and community-based for the people of southwest virginia.
The Tappahannock Free Clinic is organized as a community based organization providing quality healthcare to Essex and surrounding counties at little or no charge to low income, uninsured people as well as thosepeople with health insurance…
The mission of ccwv is to help our communities live the healthiest lives possible by meeting their immediate and long-term healthcare needs. this mission is accomplished by providing high quality, accessible, comprehensive, culturally…
The mission of the Good Samaritan Center is to provide a safe, Christ- Centered environment that gives our patients quality, coordinated and affordable healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charlottesville Free Clinic and the most unlike its peers is Mission Dental Virginia 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
85 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. 85 of the 94 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 Carilion Clinic Foundation ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD HEALTH INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP DBA CHIP OF ROANOKE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HEALTH CATALYST ↗
- Who funds E3 ENDEAVORS FKA FREEDOM FIRST ENTERPRISES ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE RURAL HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds BLAND MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MISSION DENTAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds GoochlandCares ↗
- Who funds KUUMBA COMMUNITY HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT REGIONAL DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTHERN NECK-MIDDLESEX FREE HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Virginia Health Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF POWHATAN INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Free Clinic of the New River Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH CARILION SCHOOL OF MEDICINE INC ↗
- Who funds FAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds FREDERICKSBURG AREA REGIONAL HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA REGIONAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Lucy Corr Foundation ↗
- Who funds Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL 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: Virginia Health Care Foundation · Virginia Association of Free and Charitable Clinics Inc · Direct Relief · Sentara Health · Americares Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · The Community Foundation Inc · Virginia Primary Care Association Inc · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc
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 Virginia Foundation 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.
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