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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.

$5.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$4.5M
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$46MPhilanthropy$2.4MYouth Development$400kEducation$349kEmployment$214kRecreation & Sports$165kArts & Culture$151kHuman Services$112kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $177k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
  • $250k+2 grants · $4.8M
$12,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$397M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%American National Red Cross - Wisconsin Region: $13k → 14%American National Red Cross - Wisconsin Region: $10k → 14%American National Red Cross - Wisconsin Region: $8k → 14%American National Red Cross - WI Region: $8k → 14%American National Red Cross - Wisconsin Region: $8k → 14%ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $175k → 17%ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $60k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS WISCONSIN REGION: $10k → 17%WISCONSIN DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $75k → 17%CAP SERVICES INC: $10k → 10%CAP SERVICES INC: $6k → 10%CAP SERVICES INC: $6k → 10%CAP SERVICES INC: $5k → 10%CAP SERVICES INC: $5k → 10%CAP SERVICES INC: $5k → 10%CAP SERVICES INC: $5k → 10%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$45M · 22 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
230

Total granted

$45M
$4.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+24%

Still filing today

86%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k 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
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • DD
    Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $40M · revenue +35% · 100% of their budget
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +14%
  • MU
    Marquette University
    3× · 2017–2020 · $630k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $270k
  • TL
    THE LAKES COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +205%
  • WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +114%
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
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
2
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
3
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.

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4
Sauk Prairie Healthcare Inc

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.

Health
5
Children's Medical Group Inc

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…

Health
6
Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Community Physicians Inc

To advance the health of our communities through excellence and discovery, inspiring each person to live their unique, best life.

Health
7
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
8
Reedsburg Area Medical Center

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

Health
9
Madison Community Hospital

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

Health
10
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
11
Wisconsin Association of Health Plans Inc

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.

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12
Wisconsin Hospital Association Inc

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:…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marshfield Clinic Health System Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
35/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation Inc: $39,500,000 · EducationDelta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation Inc+4 more: $1,067,647 · EducationUNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC: $2,375,744 · OtherUNITED WAY OF …State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services: $768,755 · OtherState of Wisco…Individual grant recipient: $270,000 · Other+163 more: $3,136,121 · Other+163 moreCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC: $388,275 · HealthWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC: $200,000 · HealthMORE SMILES WISCONSIN: $110,000 · HealthTRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC: $60,000 · HealthVIVENT HEALTH INC: $50,000 · HealthSt Mary's Hospital Medical Center of Green Bay Inc - Hospital Sisters: $33,828 · Health+7 more: $146,790 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE: $283,750 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC: $168,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $38,000 · Youth DevelopmentST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $235,000 · Human ServicesWISCONSIN DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $55,125 · Human ServicesCAP SERVICES INC: $42,805 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $253,210 · PhilanthropyBrewers Community Foundation Inc: $50,000 · PhilanthropyFARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCELEBRATE PLOVER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCREATE PORTAGE COUNTY INC: $26,700 · Arts & CultureWISCONSINEYE PUBLIC AFFAIRS NETWORK INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL WISCONSIN CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC: $13,855 · Arts & CultureASHLEY FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$40,567,647Other$6,550,620Health$988,893Youth Development$489,750Human Services$407,930Philanthropy$353,210Arts & Culture$175,555

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDelta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation Inc: $39,500,000 over 7y, 100% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC: $2,375,744 over 8y, 10% of budgetMarquette University: $629,947 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC: $388,275 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE: $283,750 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $253,210 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $235,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC: $232,200 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetTHE LAKES COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC: $168,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $162,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of Stevens Point Wisconsin Area Inc: $114,150 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMORE SMILES WISCONSIN: $110,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetCENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetWISCONSIN DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC: $60,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $55,125 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVIVENT HEALTH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $48,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $43,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAP SERVICES INC: $42,805 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetASPIRUS STEVENS POINT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $40,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $38,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Mary's Hospital Medical Center of Green Bay Inc - Hospital Sisters: $33,828 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC: $28,215 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCREATE PORTAGE COUNTY INC: $26,700 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetMARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $26,100 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWISCONSINEYE PUBLIC AFFAIRS NETWORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCELEBRATE PLOVER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetDOOR COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $19,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGundersen Clinic Ltd: $16,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $16,525 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $15,105 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL WISCONSIN CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC: $13,855 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetCHIPPEWA VALLEY HEALTH CLINIC INC: $12,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASHLEY FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Northcentral Wisconsin Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

Delta Dental of Wisco…Community Foundation …Edward J Okray Founda…Green Bay Packers Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Peters Family Foundat…Wisconsin Public Serv…Sentry Insurance Foun…Greater Green Bay Com…Seramur Family Founda…The Roots and Wings F…Otto Bremer Trust
Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation 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 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Delta Dental of Wisconsin 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 257 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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