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Delta Dental of Washington
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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 42 grants below total $2,638,624 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,719,361 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $80,737 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 $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $385k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $288k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UW SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY | $287,775 |
| SOCIETY OF TEACHERS OF FAMILY MEDICINE | $205,920 |
| TACOMA PIERCE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT | $159,112 |
| QUILEUTE TRIBAL COUNCIL | $140,000 |
| COMMUNITY CATALYST INC | $135,000 |
| KALISPEL INDIAN COMM OF THE KALISPEL RESERVATION | $130,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY | $111,000 |
| CHARITABLE PARTNERSHIP FUND | $110,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL | $75,000 |
| GLOBAL PERINATAL SERVICES | $75,000 |
| SUNNYSIDE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $75,000 |
| COLUMBIA BASIN HEALTH ASSOCIATION | $75,000 |
| BELLINGHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $75,000 |
| COMUNIDADES SIN FRONTERAS WASHINGTON | $75,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS COALITION | $74,779 |
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 (FY19–24, $827k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Delta Dental of Washington’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 86% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
65 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 17 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $945k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +7%
NORTHWEST PORTLAND AREA INDIAN HEALTH BOARD5× · 2017–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +314%- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY4× · 2020–2024 · $577k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- PNPACIFIC NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCESgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $4.3M · revenue +26%
- SCSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2022 · $2.5M · revenue +22%
- SVSKAGIT VALLEY COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $897k
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 mission of the organization is to provide primary medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy and related support services to the residents of the Rhode Island communities that it serves regardless of ability to pay. The emphasis is…
Improving the quality of life for the people in the Olympic Peninsula Community by providing increased access to health and wellness services for the underserved
The mission of columbia valley community health is partnering to achieve optimal health and wellness with compassion and respect for all.
Strengthening the community by providing accessible and affordable health care.
We partner with our community to make good health possible for all. wallace serves individuals and families who face barriers to care throughout the east multnomah county in the portland metropolitan area.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Trade association dedicated to providing educational opportunities, legal and regulatory advice, quality compliance assistance, lobbying and discounted group member benefits for long-term care facilities.
We are dedicated to improving our patients' health by providing safe, high-quality care in a compassionate and cost-effective manner.
NoHLA works toward achieving a health care system in which all individuals receive quality, affordable health care, provided on an equitable and timely basis, and are assured of basic rights and protections. NoHLA conducts outreach,…
Asian Health Services (AHS) provides a continuum of medical care, mental health care, dental care and other healthcare services for all, including health education; perinatal services; behavioral health; family and youth services;…
Improving health by providing high-quality care in a compassionate and cost-effective manner.
The mission of kaniksu community health is to provide quality, affordable and accessible care for our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Roots Community Health and the most unlike its peers is Sunnyside Education Association. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
130 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. 130 of the 169 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 PACIFIC NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST PORTLAND AREA INDIAN HEALTH BOARD ↗
- Who funds Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTH SOUND ACCOUNTABLE COMMUNITY OF HEALTH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Community Health Association of Spokane ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds BETTER HEALTH TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds Frontier Behavioral Health ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE GENERAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NORTH OLYMPIC HEALTHCARE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORCARE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEWIS COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YAKIMA NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW HEALTH PROGRAMS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YAKIMA VALLEY FARM WORKERS CLINIC ↗
- Who funds AGING IN PACE WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ROOTS COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds LHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Society of Teachers of Family Medicine ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER COALITION ↗
- Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK FOR ORAL HEALTH ACCESS ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Coalition of Whatcom County ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: Inatai Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Northwest Harvest Emm · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington · Philanthropy Northwest · Sheng-Yen Lu Foundation · Better Health Together · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · North Sound Accountable Community of Health · School's Out Washington · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · United Way of King County
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 Washington 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.
- Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board — 70% of income from government
- Community Catalyst Inc — 15% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- One Community Health — 13% of income from government
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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