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Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation Inc

To elevate the well-being of all coloradans by advancing oral health equity.

$4.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
60
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$625k
Largest
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$15MEmployment$7.2MHuman Services$3.7MEducation$2.5MHousing & Shelter$746kPublic Benefit$710kPhilanthropy$608kCommunity Improvement$550kOther$0
02FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k21 grants · $627k
  • $50k–250k36 grants · $2.8M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
$55,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDAT$100,000
GENERATION SCHOOLS NETWORK$100,000
LA PLATA COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH DEPAR$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
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BENEFITS IN ACTION: $70k → 7%FAMILY AND INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE C: $75k → 9%The Family CenterLa Familia: $50k → 11%: $75k → 12%REGIONAL HOME VISITATION PROGRAM: $52k → 13%Tri-County Family Care Center Inc: $50k → 23%Summit Family Resource: $50k → 9%THE FAMILY CENTER LA FAMILIA: $50k → 11%TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $75k → 12%REGIONAL HOME VISITATION PROGRAM: $50k → 13%Family and Intercultural Resource Center: $50k → 9%TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $75k → 12%Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pueblo: $50k → 15%PROJECT WORTHMORE DBA WORTHMORE CLI: $250k → 8%Summit Family Resource Center: $50k → 9%HEALTHY CHILDCARE COLORADO: $115k → 12%PROJECT WORTHMORE DBA WORTHMORE CLINIC: $135k → 8%HEALTHY CHILD CARE COLORADO: $115k → 12%Project Worthmore DBA Worthmore Clinic: $103k → 8%Project Worthmore: $80k → 8%: $60k → 12%BRIGHT BEGINNINGS: $60k → 12%: $75k → 8%Aurora Community Connection: $50k → 8%READY TO WORK AURORA: $64k → 8%READY TO WORK AURORA: $62k → 8%: $260k → 12%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATION: $260k → 12%Colorado Coalition for the Homeless: $104k → 12%Qualistar Colorado: $103k → 12%Colorado Coalition for the Homeless: $100k → 12%Colorado Coalition for the Homeless: $100k → 12%Bright Beginnings: $72k → 12%COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $70k → 12%Focus Points Family Resource Center: $50k → 12%Bright Beginnings: $65k → 12%Center for Immigrants and Immigration Services (CIIS): $70k → 12%CENTER FOR IMMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRATI: $50k → 12%: $50k → 12%Center for Immigrants and Immigration Services (CIIS): $50k → 12%Florence Crittenon: $100k → 12%Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado: $100k → 12%Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado: $100k → 12%HEALTHY CHILDCARE COLORADO: $116k → 12%: $115k → 12%Healthy Child Care Colorado: $100k → 12%Healthy Childcare Colorado: $100k → 12%THRIVING FAMILIES: $75k → 12%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 74%.

Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 104 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

104
47

Total granted

$24M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+36%

Still filing today

83%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $558k 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 ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +168%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +79%
  • CM
    COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $890k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Colorado School of Dentistry
    one grant, 2019 · $250k
  • MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -23%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Colorado Health Systemgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +89%
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
Colorado Digital Health

Prime health advances health justice, equity, access quality and cost through innovation, collaboration, and community building.

Health
2
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
3
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

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.

Health
4
Clinica Colorado

To provide equitable primary health care and resources to those with limited access across colorado, especially to those who are uninsured.

Health
5
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

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…

Health
6
Healthier Colorado

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…

Health
7
Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council

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.

Health
8
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
9
Pueblo Community Health Center Inc

To provide primary health care to those in need by offering top quality care through accessibility, leadership, and financial independence.

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10
Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

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.

—
11
Colorado Community Managed Care Network

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.

Health
12
Healthteamworks

Healthteamworks collaboratively transforms health care through performance improvement, organization development, and training, resulting in strengthened communities and person-centered, high-quality care.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthy Child Care Colorado; 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.
05the grantee network

143 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. 143 of the 163 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
141/143
Grantees still filing
102/143
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUMMIT COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC: $595,750 · HealthSUMMIT COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INCMOUNTAIN FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS: $511,000 · HealthMOUNTAIN FAMILY HEALTH CENTERSCOLO ASSOCIATION FOR SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CARE: $471,818 · HealthCOLO ASSOCIATION FOR SCHOOL-BASED…COLORADO COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK INC: $469,375 · HealthCOLORADO COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK…LA CLINICA TEPEYAC: $367,295 · HealthNORTHWEST COLORADO VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $356,193 · HealthOLATHE COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $340,000 · HealthKIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY: $320,000 · HealthSOUTHWEST COLORADO MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $320,000 · HealthCOLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE: $275,000 · HealthMETRO COMMUNITY PROVIDER NETWORK INC: $274,500 · Health+30 more: $3,727,213 · Health+30 moreDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $1,321,905 · OtherDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDA…COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $890,000 · OtherCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATI…LA RAZA SERVICES INC: $401,801 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $398,961 · OtherCOMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $359,949 · Other+54 more: $5,128,705 · Other+54 moreHEALTHY CHILD CARE COLORADO: $670,578 · Human ServicesHEALTHY CHILD CARE…PROJECT WORTHMORE: $617,700 · Human ServicesPROJECT WORTHMOREColorado Coalition for the Homeless: $381,250 · Human ServicesColorado Coalition…FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $300,000 · Human ServicesFLORENCE CRITTENTO…Center For Immigrants and Immigration Se: $270,000 · Human ServicesCenter For Immigra…FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATION: $260,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESOURCE CE…SUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER DBA FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER: $225,050 · Human ServicesBRIGHT BEGINNINGS: $196,500 · Human ServicesTHRIVING FAMILIES: $179,751 · Human ServicesTENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME: $150,000 · Human Services+20 more: $1,185,658 · Human Services+20 morePIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,280,000 · EducationPIKES PEAK STATE …UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1,139,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COL…COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FDN: $592,460 · EducationCOMMUNITY COLLEGE…FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $530,000 · EducationFRONT RANGE COMMU…GENERATION SCHOOLS NETWORK INC: $200,000 · EducationGRAND BEGINNINGS: $152,601 · Education+8 more: $324,046 · Education+8 moreTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $399,500 · Community ImprovementVuela for Health: $238,021 · Community ImprovementCenter for African American Health: $90,000 · Community ImprovementCOLORADO ENTERPRISE FUND: $75,000 · Community ImprovementMOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER: $67,350 · Community ImprovementFULL CIRCLE OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $50,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $25,000 · Community ImprovementCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropyMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyEARLY LEARNING VENTURES: $111,300 · PhilanthropyRose Community Foundation: $100,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC: $89,614 · PhilanthropyCARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND: $75,000 · PhilanthropyEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $35,599 · PhilanthropyROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $450,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC: $120,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $8,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$8,028,144Other$8,501,321Human Services$4,436,487Education$4,218,107Community Improvement$944,871Philanthropy$861,513Arts & Culture$578,000

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 budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $1,321,905 over 7y, 6.7% of budgetPIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,280,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1,139,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $890,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetHEALTHY CHILD CARE COLORADO: $670,578 over 7y, 33% of budgetPROJECT WORTHMORE: $617,700 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetSUMMIT COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC: $595,750 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FDN: $592,460 over 2y, 31% of budgetFRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $530,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetMOUNTAIN FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS: $511,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCOLO ASSOCIATION FOR SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CARE: $471,818 over 4y, 20% of budgetCOLORADO COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK INC: $469,375 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $450,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLA RAZA SERVICES INC: $401,801 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $399,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetColorado Coalition for the Homeless: $381,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLA CLINICA TEPEYAC: $367,295 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $359,949 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetNORTHWEST COLORADO VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $356,193 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetOLATHE COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $340,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetKIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY: $320,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetSOUTHWEST COLORADO MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $320,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $300,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE: $275,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMETRO COMMUNITY PROVIDER NETWORK INC: $274,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN: $270,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetCenter For Immigrants and Immigration Se: $270,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetVALLEY-WIDE HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $261,659 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATION: $260,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTRI-COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK: $256,118 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSoutheastern Colorado Area Health Education Center for Rural Colorado's Hea: $243,718 over 4y, 21% of budgetVuela for Health: $238,021 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION: $232,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER DBA FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER: $225,050 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCLINICA CAMPESINA FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES: $225,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARCHER GROUP: $222,300 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetVive: $201,800 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetSUNRISE COMMUNITY HEALTH: $200,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGENERATION SCHOOLS NETWORK INC: $200,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetDOLORES COUNTY HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $200,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS: $196,500 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetTHE GROWHAUS: $182,460 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTHRIVING FAMILIES: $179,751 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetKIDS FIRST HEALTH CARE: $175,700 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetDOMINICAN HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC: $169,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetPEAK VISTA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $163,210 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC: $158,600 over 2y, 6.8% 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.

Caring for Colorado FoundationCO164.1× affinity85 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%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
    67report 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.

    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 163 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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