Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation DossiersAlso receives grants — funding profile →
Plinth

· Public charity

Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation Inc

Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation's mission is to initiate, collaborate with, and support programs that extend access to dental care, ensure a strong dental workforce, and improve the oral health of underserved and vulnerable populations.

$4.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$700k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Health$14MEducation$4.9MYouth Development$352kPhilanthropy$257kRecreation & Sports$256kFood & Nutrition$118kEnvironment$10k
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 38 grants below total $4,373,928 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,746,447 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $372,519 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 $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $223k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $2.9M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
$126,455
Median grant
3
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services$700,000
Affordable Dental Care Inc$273,932
NorthLakes Community Clinic$250,000
Northcentral Technical College$226,455
Chippewa Valley Technical College Foundation$195,324
Milwaukee Area Technical College Foundation$173,455
Waukesha County Technical College$169,455
Blackhawk Technical College$169,455
Chippewa Valley Technical College$169,455
Fox Valley Technical College$169,455
Brown County Oral Health Partnership Inc (OHP)$162,700
Tri-County Community Dental Clinic Inc$160,000
Madison Area Technical College$143,000
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College$127,813
Mid-State Technical College (SKS email)$126,455
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $100k → 17%ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $10k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $50k → 17%WISCONSIN DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%WISCONSIN DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $40k → 17%Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 11% of Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation Inc’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, 99% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 75% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 19% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 34 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
27

Total granted

$16M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+22%

Still filing today

94%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • MU
    Marquette University
    6× · 2019–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +46%
  • CV
    CHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +130% · 56% of their budget
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • GL
    Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +18%
  • RR
    ROCK RIVER COMMUNITY CLINIC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $210k · revenue +138%
  • BR
    BAD RIVER BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR TRIBE OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS
    one grant, 2022 · $185k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Wisconsin Dental Association Inc

Advance the interests of wda members and the dental profession by promoting professional excellence and quality oral health care for the public.

Community Improvement
2
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)

Education
3
Dental Clinics North

To provide comprehensive public dental health care services to the communities of northern michigan and neighboring regions.

Health
4
Burnett Medical Center Inc

The mission of burnett medical center is to provide compassionate, comprehensive, community healthcare that exceeds our customer's expectations. our mission, as well as our vision and values, serves as a guideline for daily decision making…

Health
5
ThedaCare Medical Center - Waupaca Inc

To provide the highest quality health care, delivered in the most efficient and cost-effective ways, and accessible to all members of the community.

Health
6
Reedsburg Area Medical Center

Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.

Health
7
Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.

—
8
Healthcore Clinic Inc

The mission of healthcore clinic, inc is to provide quality family healthcare through improved access and a heightened and unrelenting focus on education and prevention.

Health
9
North Central Wisconsin Ahec Inc

Provide education and training opportunities that aim to increase the distribution and development in the healthcare workforce, with a focus on rural communities.

Health
10
Center for Healthcare Careers of Southeast Wisconsin Inc

The mission of the center for healthcare careers of southeast wisconsin, inc. (chcsew) is to unite all appropriate stakeholders in a viable, flexible structure to locate, educate and support a workforce from service to professional levels…

Health
11
Madison Community Hospital

Madison regional health system serves as a community health focal point through the provision of compassionate, quality, and innovative care.

Health
12
Waukesha Free Clinic Inc

The clinic's mission is to support the health care of uninsured and low-income residents of waukesha county. the clinic provides access to free or discounted services and medications.

—

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthnet of Rock County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hygeia Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr15%36%35–55yr17%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr18%27%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr15%44%35–55yr17%6%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/81
the rest of the field
13%
6,769/51,010

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.

05the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 81 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/67
Grantees still filing
49/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $1,125,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDA…TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC — $740,000 · HealthTRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INCMercy Dental Missions Inc — $635,452 · HealthMercy Dental Missions IncWISCONSIN COLLABORATIVE FOR HEALTHCARE QUALITY INC — $587,500 · HealthWISCONSIN COLLABORATIVE FOR HEALTHCARE …BROWN COUNTY ORAL HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC — $528,700 · HealthBROWN COUNTY ORAL HEALTH PARTNERSHIP IN…Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc — $500,000 · HealthGundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation I…WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC — $480,172 · HealthWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC — $465,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INCHEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY INC — $428,500 · HealthHEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY INCDOOR COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $232,204 · Health+16 more — $1,230,446 · Health+16 moreState of Wisconsin Department of Health Services — $3,066,000 · OtherState of Wisconsin Department of Hea…THE LAKES COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $640,000 · OtherTHE LAKES COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER IN…FOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $275,455 · OtherACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $246,210 · OtherNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $226,455 · Other+29 more — $1,984,728 · Other+29 moreMarquette University — $3,190,667 · EducationMarquette UniversityCHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,425,415 · EducationCHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL CO…+5 more — $360,681 · Education+5 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE — $287,522 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WISCONSIN RAPIDS AREA INC — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC — $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC — $24,470 · Youth Development+1 more — $14,000 · Youth DevelopmentWCTC FOUNDATION INC — $169,455 · PhilanthropyASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $139,000 · PhilanthropyBrewers Community Foundation Inc — $88,000 · PhilanthropyStoughton Hospital Foundation Inc — $25,585 · PhilanthropyST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE — $110,000 · Human ServicesWISCONSIN DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC — $90,000 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesSPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC — $256,352 · Recreation & Sports
Health$6,953,474Other$6,438,848Education$4,976,763Youth Development$470,992Philanthropy$422,040Human Services$275,000Recreation & Sports$256,352

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMarquette University — $3,190,667 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,425,415 over 4y, 56% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $1,125,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC — $740,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetTHE LAKES COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $640,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMercy Dental Missions Inc — $635,452 over 6y, 23% of budgetWISCONSIN COLLABORATIVE FOR HEALTHCARE QUALITY INC — $587,500 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetBROWN COUNTY ORAL HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC — $528,700 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetGundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC — $480,172 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC — $465,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY INC — $428,500 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE — $287,522 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetFOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $275,455 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC — $256,352 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $246,210 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDOOR COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $232,204 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $226,455 over 1y, 24% of budgetROCK RIVER COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $210,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFOWLER MEMORIAL FREE DENTAL CLINIC — $195,000 over 2y, 49% of budgetLAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC — $194,628 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetBLACKHAWK TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $169,455 over 1y, 12% of budgetWCTC FOUNDATION INC — $169,455 over 1y, 12% of budgetOPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC — $150,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $139,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLAKESHORE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $126,455 over 1y, 12% of budgetNORTHWOOD TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $126,455 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetGATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $126,455 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetMARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDR JAMES E ALBRECHT FREE CLINIC INC — $115,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE — $110,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAPPLE TREE DENTAL — $107,175 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWISCONSIN DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC — $90,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetBrewers Community Foundation Inc — $88,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetLA CLINICA DE LOS CAMPESINOS INC — $87,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $82,453 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMUSLIM COMMUNITY AND HEALTH — $82,301 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSt Mary's Hospital Medical Center of Green Bay Inc - Hospital Sisters — $78,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WISCONSIN RAPIDS AREA INC — $75,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC — $70,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMORE SMILES WISCONSIN — $68,472 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetVIVENT HEALTH INC — $56,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION OF DENTISTRY FOR THE HANDICAPPED - GROUP — $55,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMID-STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetWISCONSINEYE PUBLIC AFFAIRS NETWORK INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHYGEIA CORP — $50,000 over 1y, 94% of budget
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.

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.

Delta Dental of Wisco…Green Bay Packers Fou…Otto Bremer TrustThe Roots and Wings F…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Greater Green Bay Com…Greater Milwaukee Fou…The Medical College o…Children's Hospital o…Community Foundation …Sentry Insurance Foun…Ba & Esther Greenheck…
Delta Dental of Wisconsin IncWI45.9× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delta Dental of Wisconsin Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc · Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Sentry Insurance Foundation Inc · Ba & Esther Greenheck 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 Wisconsin Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 81 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home
    State money flows
    the interactive map of money crossing state lines