· Public charity
Delta Dental of Wisconsin Inc
The exempt purpose of Delta Dental of Wisconsin is to engage and empower our customers, partners, and communities to improve oral and overall health by developing and delivering innovative products and services built on a culture of legendary service.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $177k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
- $250k+2 grants · $4.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DELTA DENTAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC | $4,500,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY | $290,990 |
| STEVENS POINT AREA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT | $59,917 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WI FOUNDATION | $43,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE CO | $35,550 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DANE CO | $28,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL WI | $14,250 |
| STEVENS POINT AREA YMCA | $12,500 |
| Village of Whiting | $12,140 |
| UWSP FOUNDATION INC | $11,100 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS WISCONSIN REGION | $10,125 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF PORTAGE & WOOD COUNTIES | $10,000 |
| CREATE PORTAGE COUNTY | $6,700 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION-MADISON | $5,500 |
| CAP SERVICES INC | $5,265 |
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, $408k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k 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
- DDDelta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $40M · revenue +35% · 100% of their budget
- UWUNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +14%
- MUMarquette University3× · 2017–2020 · $630k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $270k
WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +114%- TLTHE LAKES COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +205%
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 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)
Advance the interests of wda members and the dental profession by promoting professional excellence and quality oral health care for the public.
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.
Extraordinary healthcare from the heart - one person at a time.vision: we will set the standard for community-based healthcare that improves the health and quality of life of the people we serve.
To provide quality, accessible primary health care services to all children in our community, advocate for the well-being of all children, educate children, families, health care professionals and our community regarding the health of…
To advance the health of our communities through excellence and discovery, inspiring each person to live their unique, best life.
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…
Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.
Madison regional health system serves as a community health focal point through the provision of compassionate, quality, and innovative care.
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…
Promote a positive state legislative and regulatory climate for wisconsin's community health plans. the association communicates with regulatory agencies to promote issue positions representing community health plans.
The wisconsin hospital association, inc.'s (wha) mission is advocating for the ability of its members to provide high quality health care services to wisconsin communities.the association fulfills this mission through the following values:…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marshfield Clinic Health System Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Farming for the Future Foundation. 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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 257 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAKES COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN DENTAL PARTNERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of Stevens Point Wisconsin Area Inc ↗
- Who funds MORE SMILES WISCONSIN ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Brewers Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds VIVENT HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAP SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRUS STEVENS POINT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin Inc · Edward J Okray Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Peters Family Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Sentry Insurance Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Seramur Family Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust
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 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.
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