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Delta Dental Plan of Arizona Charitable Foundation and Trust at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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Delta Dental Plan of Arizona Charitable Foundation and Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$5.8MReligion$783kEducation$530kYouth Development$452kHuman Services$441kArts & Culture$415kInternational$263kFood & Nutrition$195kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $647k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $475k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$16,240
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF AZ - ORAL HEALTH CURRICULUM$300,000
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL$100,000
Individual grant recipient$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARIVACA HELPING HEARTS: $5k → 15%TOOTH BUDDS: $50k → 15%TOOTH BUDDS: $50k → 15%TOOTH BUDDS: $50k → 15%SENIOR CITIZENS OF PATAGONIA: $8k → 19%TOOTH BUDDS: $50k → 15%SENIOR CITIZENS OF PATAGONIA: $7k → 19%TOOTH BUDDS: $50k → 15%SENIOR CITIZENS OF PATAGONIA: $7k → 19%TOOTH BUDDS: $25k → 15%SENIOR CITIZENS OF PATAGONIA: $6k → 19%TOOTH BUDDS: $25k → 15%SENIOR CITIZENS OF PATAGONIA: $5k → 19%SENIOR CITIZENS OF PATAGONIA: $5k → 19%MAGGIE'S PLACE INC: $20k → 11%MAGGIE'S PLACE INC: $12k → 11%AYUDA SMILES: $30k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 11%CIRCLE THE CITY: $10k → 11%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA: $10k → 11%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA: $10k → 11%VALLEY OF THE SUN YMCA: $25k → 11%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

IL
MI
NY
IN
CA
CO
MO
MD
AZ
KS
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.6M · 66 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
71

Total granted

$7.6M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+21%

Still filing today

67%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $278k 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 ServicesEducationFood & NutritionReligionArts & CultureOther
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

  • DC
    DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX
    7× · 2017–2024 · $719k · revenue +98%
  • PC
    Phoenix Children's Hospital
    4× · 2019–2024 · $452k · revenue +67%
  • ER
    EL RIO FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $405k · revenue +682%

Funded once

  • DC
    DENTAL CONNECT PROGRAM
    one grant, 2023 · $275k
  • HF
    HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -30%
  • PC
    Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $132k · revenue +52%
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
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
2
Northern Arizona Healthcare Corporation

Improving health, healing people.

Health
3
Banner Health

Banner health's nonprofit mission is "making health care easier, so life can be better".

Health
4
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
5
Arizona Hospital & Healthcare Association

Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.

—
6
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
—
7
Sun Health Services

Sun health champions superior health and wellbeing through philanthropy, inspired living and wellness programs.

Health
8
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
9
Delta Dental Plan of Arizona Charitable Foundation and Trust
Philanthropy
10
La Familia Medical Center

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"…

—
11
Vitalyst Health Foundation

To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.

Health
12
Tucson Medical Center

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.

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

81 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. 81 of the 154 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/81
Grantees still filing
62/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF AZ - ORAL HEALTH CURRICULUM: $500,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF AZ - ORAL HEALTH CURRICULUMDENTAL CONNECT PROGRAM: $275,000 · OtherDENTAL CONNECT PROGRAMIndividual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherSOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED: $162,500 · OtherGREAT AZ PUPPET THEATER: $160,250 · OtherNORTH COUNTRY HEALTHCARE INC: $157,500 · OtherCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX: $232,425 · Other+93 more: $2,928,472 · Other+93 morePhoenix Children's Hospital: $452,270 · HealthPhoenix Children's HospitalBanner Health Foundation: $330,000 · HealthBanner Health FoundationHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $250,000 · HealthHONORHEALTH FOUNDATIONSUNSET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $190,000 · HealthSUNSET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERNEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH ACCESS TO HEALTH: $190,000 · HealthNEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH ACCESS TO…DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $140,000 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $131,756 · HealthADELANTE HEALTHCAREINC: $128,000 · HealthAZDA CARES FOUNDATION: $100,545 · HealthDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $98,000 · Health+19 more: $702,398 · Health+19 moreDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $718,550 · ReligionDIOCESAN …PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $64,496 · ReligionPHOENIX G…+1 more: $10,000 · ReligionTOOTH BUDDS INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesRiver Cities United Way: $85,000 · Human ServicesMAGGIE'S PLACE INC: $52,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS OF PATAGONIA INC: $38,000 · Human ServicesAyuda Smiles INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association: $25,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25,000 · Human Services+4 more: $48,000 · Human ServicesEL RIO FOUNDATION INC: $405,000 · PhilanthropyDiana Gregory Outreach Services: $17,500 · PhilanthropyARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $65,000 · EducationA T Still University of Health Sciences: $47,708 · EducationNew York University: $27,500 · EducationACCEL: $12,500 · Education+2 more: $15,000 · EducationADVANCE COMMUNITY: $260,000 · InternationalPACIFIC DENTAL SERVICES FOUNDATION: $50,000 · International
Other$4,616,147Health$2,712,969Religion$793,046Human Services$603,000Philanthropy$422,500Education$367,708International$310,000

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 budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $718,550 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital: $452,270 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEL RIO FOUNDATION INC: $405,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetBanner Health Foundation: $330,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTOOTH BUDDS INC: $300,000 over 7y, 22% of budgetADVANCE COMMUNITY: $260,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX: $232,425 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUNSET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $190,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH ACCESS TO HEALTH: $190,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED: $162,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY HEALTHCARE INC: $157,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $131,756 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetADELANTE HEALTHCAREINC: $128,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation of Arizona: $102,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetAZDA CARES FOUNDATION: $100,545 over 2y, 27% of budgetDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $98,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetARIZONA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $95,120 over 4y, 29% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER - MARIA AUXILIADORA INC: $85,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRiver Cities United Way: $85,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetVerde Valley Medical Center: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSUN LIFE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $68,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE HEALTH: $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $64,496 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChiricahua Community Health Centers Inc: $62,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY: $52,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMAGGIE'S PLACE INC: $52,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPACIFIC DENTAL SERVICES FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetA T Still University of Health Sciences: $47,708 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE AND LEARN PROGRAM: $47,600 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetA NEW LEAF: $47,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAJO COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNTAIN PARK HEALTH CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMARIPOSA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $38,758 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS OF PATAGONIA INC: $38,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANYONLANDS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAyuda Smiles INC: $30,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetFlagstaff Medical Center: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTUBA CITY REGIONAL HEALTH CARE CORPORATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $27,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 SUNSET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH ACCESS TO HEALTH ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Arizona Community Fou…Virginia G Piper Char…The Foundation for Co…Thunderbirds CharitiesMercy CareBHHS Legacy FoundationCommunity Foundation …The Diane and Bruce H…Arizona Healthiest St…Burton Family Foundat…St Mary's Food Bank A…The Narbha Institute …
Arizona Community FoundationAZ73.4× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Plan of Arizona Charitable Foundation and Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Delta Dental Plan of Arizona Charitable Foundation and Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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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    Find your warmest path to Delta Dental Plan of Arizona Charitable Foundation and Trust 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 154 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-PF 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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