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Delta Dental Plan of Michigan Inc

Delta dental of michigan's mission is to advance and promote the improvement of oral health through dental services provided under contracts with independent professional service providers, support for research and education, and community outreach directed toward securing access to quality dental care for all.

$4.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
60
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$33MEnvironment$5.1MArts & Culture$2.4MEducation$2.1MCommunity Improvement$1.7MFood & Nutrition$1.6MYouth Development$1.2MAnimals$1.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $666k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
$25,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$987M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DELTA DENTAL FOUNDATION$1,500,000
LIFE REMODELED$500,000
MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY$200,000
UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN$200,000
ROAD TO MICHIGANS FUTURE$100,000
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$85,000
CRISTO REY COMMUNITY CENTER$80,000
IMPRESSION 5$75,000
A KID AGAIN$73,952
SPARROW FOUNDATION$65,772
RONALD MCDONALD CHARITIES OF OHIO$55,000
500 Festival Inc$50,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$50,000
GREATER LANSING FOODBANK$50,000
LANSING PROMISE$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $754k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%A KID AGAIN: $74k → 9%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $43k → 15%A KID AGAIN: $40k → 9%A KID AGAIN: $20k → 9%CRISTO REY COMMUNITY CENTER: $80k → 9%CRISTO REY COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 9%SAMARITAS: $45k → 21%SAMARITAS: $40k → 21%SAMARITAS: $40k → 21%SAMARITAS: $40k → 21%SAMARITAS: $40k → 21%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 21%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $47k → 21%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $35k → 21%CHILD AND FAMILY CHARITIES: $125k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
MI
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IN
OH
CA
CO
KY
MD
AZ
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DC
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$48M · 47 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

47 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
35

Total granted

$48M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+26%

Still filing today

96%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther

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

  • DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +24%
  • SF
    SPARROW FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +49%
  • FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $750k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • HA
    Hillman Accelerator
    one grant, 2020 · $828k · revenue -24% · 47% of their budget
  • PP
    POTTER PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -66%
  • TN
    Team NEO Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +26%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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2
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
3
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
4
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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5
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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6
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
7
Michigan Dental Association Foundation

To support michigan residents' quality of life through improved dental health.

Education
8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
9
Michigan Dental Association

To encourage the improvement of the oral health of the public; to enhance members' ability to provide ethical care to the public through education, training and service; and to promote the science of dentistry.

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10
Michigan Farmers Market Association

Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.

Food & Nutrition
11
Michigan Pharmacists Association

To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.

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12
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Capital Region Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cinnaire Corporation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity Arts CentersSenior Support ServicesUnited Way AffiliatesCancer Support ServicesSchool District FoundationsLocal History MuseumsYouth Sports ProgramsAffordable Housing Construc…Community FoundationsYouth Mentoring ProgramsLgbtq+ Community SupportFood Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr13%10%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr15%26%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr18%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%6%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr15%35%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr18%17%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/110
the rest of the field
12%
6,511/53,746

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.

04the grantee network

100 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. 100 of the 110 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/100
Grantees still filing
57/100
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Delta Dental Fund — $29,500,000 · OtherDelta Dental Fund+58 more — $7,296,015 · Other+58 moreDETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC — $5,067,500 · Recreation & SportsDETROIT RIV…+3 more — $130,000 · Recreation & SportsSPARROW FOUNDATION — $1,428,502 · HealthMCLAREN GREATER LANSING FOUNDATION — $511,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION — $425,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $331,250 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $249,112 · HealthOn Demand Kare Inc — $225,000 · HealthAUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN — $225,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $200,300 · Health+8 more — $112,996 · HealthMICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION — $1,510,000 · Arts & CultureIMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER — $447,000 · Arts & CultureARTPRIZE GRAND RAPIDS — $400,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $100,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $75,000 · Arts & CultureHillman Accelerator — $828,000 · Community ImprovementTeam NEO Foundation — $250,000 · Community ImprovementMICHIGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $215,000 · Community ImprovementLANSING ECONOMIC AREA PARTNERSHIP — $140,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $24,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MICHIGAN — $685,000 · EducationLansing Promise — $270,000 · EducationDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $110,000 · Education+12 more — $222,619 · EducationMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $625,000 · AnimalsPOTTER PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $500,000 · Animals+3 more — $47,048 · Animals
Other$36,796,015Recreation & Sports$5,197,500Health$3,708,160Arts & Culture$2,532,000Community Improvement$1,457,000Education$1,287,619Animals$1,172,048

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDelta Dental Fund — $29,500,000 over 8y, 44% of budgetDETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC — $5,067,500 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetMICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION — $1,510,000 over 2y, 51% of budgetSPARROW FOUNDATION — $1,428,502 over 8y, 10% of budgetELE'S PLACE INC — $911,700 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetHillman Accelerator — $828,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $750,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MICHIGAN — $685,000 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $625,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMCLAREN GREATER LANSING FOUNDATION — $511,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetLIFE REMODELED — $500,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetPOTTER PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetRoad to Michigan's Future — $460,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetIMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER — $447,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetWEEKEND SURVIVAL KITS INC — $440,972 over 4y, 32% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION — $425,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetARTPRIZE GRAND RAPIDS — $400,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN INC — $365,000 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $331,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER LANSING FOOD BANK — $316,808 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetLansing Promise — $270,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $257,260 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTeam NEO Foundation — $250,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCAPITAL REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCINNAIRE CORPORATION — $250,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $249,112 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOn Demand Kare Inc — $225,000 over 2y, 88% of budgetAUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN — $225,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMICHIGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $215,000 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetSAMARITAS — $205,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $200,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN — $200,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetLANSING ECONOMIC AREA PARTNERSHIP — $140,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN GREAT LAKES INC — $136,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetA KID AGAIN INC — $133,952 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetChild and Family Charities — $125,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF LAKE ERIE — $110,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $110,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $100,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCatholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties — $90,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE EDISON INSTITUTE INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc — $55,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO — $50,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OKI PARTNERS — $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMICHIGAN MUNICIPAL LEAGUE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFair and Equal Michigan — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget500 Festival Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $48,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Dte Energy FoundationConsumers Energy Foun…Ford PhilanthropyComerica Charitable F…Dart Foundation fka S…Community Foundation …Delta Dental FundCapital Region Commun…The Barton Malow Foun…The Carls FoundationMichigan Health Endow…United Way of South C…
Dte Energy FoundationMI48.5× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dte Energy Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Delta Dental Fund · Capital Region Community Foundation · The Barton Malow Foundation · The Carls Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · United Way of South Central Michigan

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 Michigan 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    29report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 110 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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