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Delta Dental of Washington

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$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$288k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Health$27MEducation$2.3MFood & Nutrition$585kPhilanthropy$530kPublic Safety & Disaster$399kHuman Services$213kHousing & Shelter$195kInternational$169kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 42 grants below total $2,638,624, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,719,361 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $80,737 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $385k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+1 grant · $288k
$52,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$259M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
COMUNIDADES SIN FRONTERAS WASHINGTON$75,000
BELLINGHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS$75,000
COLUMBIA BASIN HEALTH ASSOCIATION$75,000
GLOBAL PERINATAL SERVICES$75,000
SUNNYSIDE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$75,000
BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL$75,000
COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS COALITION$74,779
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Island Senior Resources: $6k → 7%Rural Resources Community Action: $16k → 13%NORTH KITSAP FISHLINE: $6k → 10%RURAL RESOURCES COMMUNITY ACTION: $11k → 13%YOUTH AND FAMILY LINK: $10k → 13%WOW - TRICITIES: $20k → 11%WALLA WALLA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $46k → 13%YOUTH AND FAMILY LINK: $10k → 13%Okanagan Transportation and Nutrition: $6k → 17%Coastal Community Action Program: $6k → 18%Walla Walla Senior Center: $6k → 13%PACIFIC ISLANDER HEALTH BOARD OF WASHINGTON: $50k → 9%PACIFIC ISLANDER HEALTH BOARD OF WASHINGTON: $40k → 9%Olympic Community Action Programs: $6k → 12%PACIFIC ISLANDER HEALTH BOARD OF WASHINGTON: $35k → 9%SPOKANE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION PARTNERS: $44k → 12%Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners: $30k → 12%ALIMENTANDO AL PUEBLO: $50k → 9%ALIMENTANDO AL PUEBLO: $25k → 9%NUTRITION FIRST: $28k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WA STATE: $30k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON STATE: $20k → 9%Latino Community Fund: $10k → 9%GLOBAL PERINATAL SERVICES: $75k → 9%KANDELIA: $50k → 9%CHINESE INFORAMTION AND SERVICE CENTER: $40k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $30k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 9%Children's Alliance: $10k → 9%Latino Community Fund of Washington: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
KS
SC
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 5% of Delta Dental of Washington’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 86%.

Delta Dental of Washingtonlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.3% 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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 65 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
82

Total granted

$17M
$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+34%

Still filing today

78%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $945k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureCommunity 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +7%
  • NORTHWEST PORTLAND AREA INDIAN HEALTH BOARD
    5× · 2017–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +366%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $577k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • PN
    PACIFIC NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $4.3M · revenue +26%
  • SC
    SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2.5M · revenue +41%
  • SV
    SKAGIT VALLEY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $897k
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
Northwest Community Health Care

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…

Health
2
Olympic Peninsula Community Clinic

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

Health
3
Columbia Valley Community Health

The mission of columbia valley community health is partnering to achieve optimal health and wellness with compassion and respect for all.

Health
4
Peninsula Community Health Services of Alaska

Strengthening the community by providing accessible and affordable health care.

Health
5
The Wallace Medical Concern

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.

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6
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
7
Washington Health Care Association

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.

—
8
Wenatchee Valley Hospital

We are dedicated to improving our patients' health by providing safe, high-quality care in a compassionate and cost-effective manner.

—
9
Northwest Health Law Advocates

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,…

Health
10
Asian Health Services

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;…

Health
11
Confluence Health System

Improving health by providing high-quality care in a compassionate and cost-effective manner.

—
12
Boundary Regional Health Center Inc

The mission of kaniksu community health is to provide quality, affordable and accessible care for our communities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Roots Community Health; 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.
05the grantee network

130 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
128/130
Grantees still filing
92/130
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $2,500,000 · HealthSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALNORTHWEST PORTLAND AREA INDIAN HEALTH BOARD: $1,421,000 · HealthNORTHWEST PORTLAND AREA INDIAN HEALTH BOARDSociety of Teachers of Family Medicine Foundation: $1,088,800 · HealthSociety of Teachers of Family Medicine Foundati…NORTH SOUND ACCOUNTABLE COMMUNITY OF HEALTH: $795,777 · HealthNORTH SOUND ACCOUNTABLE COMMUNITY OF HEALTHCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $577,000 · HealthCommunity Health Association of Spokane: $521,400 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CARE: $500,607 · HealthBETTER HEALTH TOGETHER: $468,103 · Health+40 more: $5,229,037 · Health+40 morePACIFIC NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $4,250,000 · EducationPACIFIC NORTHWEST UNIVERSIT…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $2,870,045 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FO…+11 more: $613,630 · Education+11 moreSKAGIT VALLEY COLLEGE: $896,988 · OtherSKAGIT VALLEY COLLEGEKING COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES: $680,001 · OtherKING COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF COM…SPOKANE POLICE DEPARTMENT: $413,527 · OtherPROVIDENCE GENERAL FOUNDATION: $400,000 · OtherLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN: $364,400 · OtherWASHINGTON ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH: $340,908 · OtherPORT GAMBLE S'KLALLAM TRIBE: $319,542 · Other+63 more: $4,772,736 · Other+63 moreAGING IN PACE WASHINGTON: $200,000 · Human ServicesPacific Islander Health Board of Washington: $125,000 · Human ServicesUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF OLYMPIA: $108,460 · Human ServicesEast African Community Services: $100,000 · Human ServicesALIMENTANDO AL PUEBLO: $75,000 · Human ServicesGLOBAL PERINATAL SERVICES: $75,000 · Human ServicesSPOKANE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION PARTNERS: $74,254 · Human ServicesLatino Community Fund of Washington State: $70,000 · Human ServicesWALLA WALLA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $52,636 · Human ServicesKANDELIA: $50,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $40,000 · Human ServicesChinese Information and Service Center: $40,000 · Human Services+10 more: $132,648 · Human ServicesCHARITABLE PARTNERSHIP FUND: $144,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $138,395 · PhilanthropySEATTLE FOUNDATION: $135,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF LEWIS COUNTY: $97,270 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Spokane County: $96,500 · PhilanthropyInnovia Foundation: $55,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $34,250 · PhilanthropyFOOD LIFELINE: $179,713 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $101,583 · Food & NutritionBLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL: $75,000 · Food & NutritionAsia Pacific Cultural Center: $135,000 · Arts & CultureARTSFUND: $100,200 · Arts & CultureUTSAV: $50,000 · Arts & CultureEASTERN WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $24,952 · Arts & Culture
Health$13,101,724Education$7,733,675Other$8,188,102Human Services$1,142,998Philanthropy$700,415Food & Nutrition$356,296Arts & Culture$310,152

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 budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $4,250,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $2,870,045 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $2,500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST PORTLAND AREA INDIAN HEALTH BOARD: $1,421,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetSociety of Teachers of Family Medicine Foundation: $1,088,800 over 5y, 92% of budgetNORTH SOUND ACCOUNTABLE COMMUNITY OF HEALTH: $795,777 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $577,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Health Association of Spokane: $521,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CARE: $500,607 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBETTER HEALTH TOGETHER: $468,103 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetFrontier Behavioral Health: $429,603 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE GENERAL FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN: $364,400 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS: $350,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH: $340,908 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES: $340,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH OLYMPIC HEALTHCARE NETWORK: $325,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLEWIS COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES: $300,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYAKIMA NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES: $300,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNEIGHBORCARE HEALTH: $300,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $254,421 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HEALTH PROGRAMS ASSOCIATION: $250,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetYAKIMA VALLEY FARM WORKERS CLINIC: $224,902 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAGING IN PACE WASHINGTON: $200,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetSEATTLE ROOTS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION: $198,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER COALITION: $195,279 over 4y, 10% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE: $179,713 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK FOR ORAL HEALTH ACCESS: $176,800 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetInterfaith Coalition of Whatcom County: $175,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $159,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON: $144,741 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $144,450 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHARITABLE PARTNERSHIP FUND: $144,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $138,395 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAsia Pacific Cultural Center: $135,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CATALYST INC: $135,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPENINSULA COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES: $129,555 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPacific Islander Health Board of Washington: $125,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetONE COMMUNITY HEALTH: $119,632 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Islander Community Association of WA: $109,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF OLYMPIA: $108,460 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetGRACE CLINIC: $105,312 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetFREE CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON: $102,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $101,583 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARTSFUND: $100,200 over 4y, 0.5% 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.

Inatai FoundationSeattle FoundationNorthwest Harvest EmmKaiser Foundation Hea…Philanthropy NorthwestSheng-Yen Lu Foundati…Better Health TogetherPuget Sound Energy Fo…North Sound Accountab…School's Out Washingt…M J Murdock Charitabl…United Way of King Co…
Inatai FoundationWA91.7× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Delta Dental of Washington?

Find your warmest path to Delta Dental of Washington 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 169 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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