· Private foundation
Delta Dental Plan of Arizona Charitable Foundation and Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of DELTA DENTAL PLAN OF ARIZONA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION AND TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $647k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $475k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF AZ - ORAL HEALTH CURRICULUM | $300,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $100,000 |
| PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $75,419 |
| ADVANCE COMMUNITY | $50,000 |
| TOOTH BUDDS | $50,000 |
| GREAT AZ PUPPET THEATER | $50,000 |
| EL RIO HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AT STILL UNIVERSITY | $47,708 |
| AZDA CARES FOUNDATION | $40,545 |
| SUNSET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $30,000 |
| AYUDA SMILES | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSUEM OF PHOENIX | $30,000 |
| ADELANTE HEALTHCARE | $28,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $27,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $485k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
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 +55% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 38 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $278k 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
- DCDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX7× · 2017–2024 · $719k · revenue +71%
- PCPhoenix Children's Hospital4× · 2019–2024 · $452k · revenue +67%
- EREL RIO FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $405k · revenue +176%
Funded once
- DCDENTAL CONNECT PROGRAMone grant, 2023 · $275k
- HFHONORHEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -30%
- PCPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $132k · revenue +52%
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.
Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.
Improving health, healing people.
Banner health's nonprofit mission is "making health care easier, so life can be better".
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.
Sun health champions superior health and wellbeing through philanthropy, inspired living and wellness programs.
Our mission is to foster community well-being in partnership with our patients by providing excellent, accessible, family-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care. our vision is "healthy lives for all in a healthy santa fe"…
To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.
Tucson medical center's mission is to deliver caring, personalized, quality healthcare to patients and their families in an environment that is supportive, education-focused and compassionate.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valleywise Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pacific Dental Services 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 40 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 154 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 DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds EL RIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds TOOTH BUDDS INC ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH ACCESS TO HEALTH ↗
- Who funds SUNSET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds ADELANTE HEALTHCAREINC ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation of Arizona ↗
- Who funds AZDA CARES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA DENTAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER - MARIA AUXILIADORA INC ↗
- Who funds River Cities United Way ↗
- Who funds Verde Valley Medical Center ↗
- Who funds SUN LIFE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIVE HEALTH ↗
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: Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Thunderbirds Charities · Mercy Care · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Arizona Healthiest State Foundation · Burton Family Foundation · St Mary's Food Bank Alliance · The Narbha Institute Inc
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 Plan of Arizona Charitable Foundation and Trust 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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