· Public charity
Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation Inc
To elevate the well-being of all coloradans by advancing oral health equity.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k21 grants · $627k
- $50k–250k36 grants · $2.8M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $625,000 |
| COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FOUNDAT | $296,230 |
| COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATIO | $250,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA | $200,000 |
| COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENT | $180,100 |
| HEALTHY CHILD CARE COLORADO | $115,000 |
| DENVER PRESCHOOL PROGRAM | $112,785 |
| LA PLATA COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH DEPAR | $100,000 |
| DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDAT | $100,000 |
| GENERATION SCHOOLS NETWORK | $100,000 |
| TEPEYAC COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS | $95,481 |
| THE GROWHAUS | $91,230 |
| DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDAT | $90,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC | $89,614 |
| COLORADO ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL-BASE | $79,568 |
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, $5.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 78% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Delta Dental Plan of Colorado 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, 87% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 74% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
104 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 9 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $558k 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
DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +168%- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +79%
- CMCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2019–2024 · $890k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Colorado School of Dentistryone grant, 2019 · $250k
MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INCone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -23%- CHChildren's Hospital Colorado Health Systemgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +89%
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.
Prime health advances health justice, equity, access quality and cost through innovation, collaboration, and community building.
The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.
To provide equitable primary health care and resources to those with limited access across colorado, especially to those who are uninsured.
To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…
Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…
Cbhc's mission is to support community resilience, guide behavioral health innovation, and enhance individual well-being throughout colorado by supporting colorado's community behavioral health safety net providers.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
To provide primary health care to those in need by offering top quality care through accessibility, leadership, and financial independence.
Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.
Colorado community managed care network (ccmcn) provides services that enable its members and their community partners to succeed as efficient, effective, and accountable systems of care.
Healthteamworks collaboratively transforms health care through performance improvement, organization development, and training, resulting in strengthened communities and person-centered, high-quality care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthy Child Care Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Colorado Health Institute. 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 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
143 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. 143 of the 163 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 DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY CHILD CARE COLORADO ↗
- Who funds PROJECT WORTHMORE ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FDN ↗
- Who funds FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds COLO ASSOCIATION FOR SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds LA RAZA SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Colorado Coalition for the Homeless ↗
- Who funds LA CLINICA TEPEYAC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST COLORADO VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OLATHE COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST COLORADO MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds METRO COMMUNITY PROVIDER NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds Center For Immigrants and Immigration Se ↗
- Who funds VALLEY-WIDE HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Colorado Area Health Education Center for Rural Colorado's Hea ↗
- Who funds Vuela for Health ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER DBA FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLINICA CAMPESINA FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE ARCHER GROUP ↗
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: Caring for Colorado Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Anschutz Family Foundation · Trailhead Institute
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 Colorado 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.
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.