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Delta Dental Plan of Ohio Inc at a glance

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Delta Dental Plan of Ohio Inc

Delta dental of ohio'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.

$767k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$21MCommunity Improvement$375kYouth Development$190kHuman Services$58kEducation$56kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kArts & Culture$25k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $732,874, the rows itemized in this filing. The $767,192 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $34,318 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$371M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DELTA DENTAL FOUNDATION$500,000
TEAM NEO$125,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT CENTRAL OHIO$35,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTHWESTERN OHIO$25,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$15,000
A KID AGAIN$15,000
AMERICAN DENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$5,958
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN INDIAN DENTISTS$5,958
PLANET SMILEZ INC$5,958
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%A KID AGAIN: $15k → 9%A KID AGAIN INC: $10k → 9%A KID AGAIN: $8k → 9%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 9 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$21M
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+46%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalCommunity ImprovementHealthArts & 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

  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND
    2× · 2022–2023 · $70k · revenue +102%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $65k · revenue +25%
  • CN
    COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • NC
    NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -14%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +46%
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
Ohio Dental Association

The mission of the ohio dental association is to improve oral health and strengthen dentistry in ohio by: supporting, protecting and advancing the dental profession; providing resources to advance the dental profession; improving dental…

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2
Career Design in Dentistry
Education
3
Junior Achievement of North Central Michigan Inc

We are empowering young people to own their economic success. Our volunteer-based K-12 programs foster work-readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy skills, and use experiential learning to inspire kids to dream big and reach…

Youth Development
4
Junior Achievement of Central Florida Inc

Jacf empowers students to economic success by delivering innovative, experiential learning programs in fin literacy, career readiness, and entrepreneurship. partnerships with educators and business leaders inspire and prepare students to…

International
5
Junior Achievement of Middle America Inc

Junior achievement accelerates economic opportunity and mobility for youth through cross-sector collaboration to deliver innovative solutions that improve educational and economic outcomes for students.

International
6
Cleveland Center for Arts and Technology

Mission: for all of our students to achieve optimal health by integrating mental and physical well-being and life purpose. values: we will improve the lives of our students and our community. we will fight inherently inequitable systems.…

Arts & Culture
7
Open Doors Inc

Open doors academy (oda) provides year-round out-of-school time academic and enrichment programs to youth living in underserved communities. oda is based in cleveland, ohio and operates programs in northeast and northwest ohio. oda…

Youth Development
8
American Academy of Dermatology Association Inc

To represent the interests of dermatologists and their patients. to influence and be a credible resource for public and private entities related to all policies and regulations that have the potential to affect the delivery of dermatologic…

Health
9
American Dental Association

The ADA is the professional association of dentists committed to the public's oral health, ethics, science, and professional advancement; leading a unified professional through initiatives in advocacy, education, research, and the…

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10
Ohio Invention League Inc

Ohio invention league has a mission to inspire curiosity, confidence and creative problem solving in our youth and advance invention and entrepreneurial education. we envision a day when every child, regardless of gender, race, religion,…

Education
11
Junior Achievement of Mad River Region Ohio

To provide economic education to local students to inspire and prepare them to succeed in a global economy. The Organization merged with another nonprofit organization at the end of the fiscal year.

International
12
Junior Achievement of North Central Ohio

Junior achievement of north central ohio is part of the world's largest organization dedicated to preparing young people with the skills, knowledge, and mindset needed to drive economic mobility and opportunity. through hands-on learning…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of Central Ohio Inc; the most unlike its peers is Planet Smilez Inc. 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

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 15 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Delta Dental Fund: $20,500,000 · OtherDelta Dental Fund+2 more: $55,000 · OtherTeam NEO Foundation: $375,000 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $70,000 · EducationCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $50,000 · EducationAMERICAN DENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $5,958 · EducationSociety of American Indian Dentist Inc: $5,958 · EducationPlanet Smilez Inc: $5,958 · EducationJunior Achievement of Central Ohio Inc: $70,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO: $50,000 · InternationalAmerican Heart Association Inc: $65,000 · HealthA KID AGAIN INC: $32,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 · Human ServicesART OPPORTUNITIES INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$20,555,000Community Improvement$375,000Education$137,874International$120,000Health$65,000Human Services$57,500Arts & Culture$25,000

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 budgetDelta Dental Fund: $20,500,000 over 8y, 25% of budgetTeam NEO Foundation: $375,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $70,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetJunior Achievement of Central Ohio Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO: $50,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetA KID AGAIN INC: $32,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetART OPPORTUNITIES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN DENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $5,958 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSociety of American Indian Dentist Inc: $5,958 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPlanet Smilez Inc: $5,958 over 1y, 2.6% 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.

Delta Dental Plan of …Charities Aid Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Delta Dental Plan of Michigan IncMI20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delta Dental Plan of Michigan Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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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    How do I get to Delta Dental Plan of Ohio Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Delta Dental Plan of Ohio Inc 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 15 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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