Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation DossiersMostly funded, not a grantmaker — see who funds it →
Plinth

· Public charity

Dental Trade Alliance Foundation

To broaden awareness of oral health's impact on overall health and increase access to oral health care.

$289k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
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$1.3MCrime & Legal$25kEducation$25kEmployment$25k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $100,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $289,266 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $189,266 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Center for Oral Health$25,000
Unfunded List (DTAF Partnered Grant)$25,000
Texas Tech Foundation Inc (benefiting TTUHSC El Paso)$25,000
Penobscot Community Health Center Inc$25,000
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 (FY17–23, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Viscardi Center Inc: $25k → 6%Developmental Disabilities Institute: $25k → 7%KinderSmile Foundation: $25k → 16%Fenwick Foundation: $6k → 7%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $25k → 6%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

ME
VT
WA
ID
MN
IL
NY
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
DC
OK
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 41% of Dental Trade Alliance Foundation’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.

Dental Trade Alliance Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 49% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$475k · 8 repeat orgs$853k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
32

Total granted

$475k
$778k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+22%

Still filing today

75%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 ServicesPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther

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

  • ND
    NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $75k · revenue +72%
  • AT
    A T Still University of Health Sciences
    2× · 2020–2022 · $50k · revenue +40%
  • TV
    THE VISCARDI CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $50k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • VG
    VIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +30%
  • AI
    After Innocencegraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +76%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · 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
New York Dental Affiliates Pc

Operating as an integral part of the nyc health + hospitals ("h+h"), formerly the new york city health and hospitals corporation. nyda will further h+h's tax-exempt charitable, scientific, and educational purposes by enhancing the…

Health
2
Sunset Park Health Council Inc

The mission of the family health centers at nyu langone is to improve the overall health of the communities it serves by delivering high quality, culturally-competent primary car, and related services within community-based settings.

Health
3
Group Health Inc

Our mission is to improve health and well-being in partnership with our members, patients and community.

Health
4
Dade County Dental Research Clinic

Providing oral health education and improving access to dental care for the uninsured, low-income children and families of miami-dade county.

—
5
Jessie Trice Community Health System Inc

The mission of jessie trice community health system, inc. (the orgainzation) is to improve health equality for our diverse south florida community by providing and increasing access to quality comprehensive primary care services. please…

Health
6
Indian Health Board of Minneapolis Inc

The mission of indian health board of minneapolis, inc. is to ensure access to quality health care services for american indians and other peoples and to promote health education and wellness.

Health
7
Dental Clinics North

To provide comprehensive public dental health care services to the communities of northern michigan and neighboring regions.

Health
8
Dental3 All Smiles Community Oral Health

Dental3 is dedicated to collaboratively improving oral health access and equity, with a focus on underserved communities, through the coordination and provision of community based oral health services for Medicaid eligible individuals and…

Health
9
Healthcore Clinic Inc

The mission of healthcore clinic, inc is to provide quality family healthcare through improved access and a heightened and unrelenting focus on education and prevention.

Health
10
Community Health Center of Central Wyoming Inc

To maintain a high quality patient care delivery system that provides access to comprehensive health care services, regardless of ability to pay. it is the desire of chccw to treat all patients with the dignity and respect they deserve…

Health
11
Ada Forsyth Institute Inc

For more than 100 years, forsyth has been a leader in oral health research and pediatric dental care. today, we are grounded in a 3-pillared strategic plan focused on biological research, clinical service and public health outreach, and…

Philanthropy
12
Community Health Center of Franklin County Incorporated

The full mission of the community health center of franklin county, inc is to maintain a community owned, responsive health center which promotes public health and well-being, and provides comprehensive preventative and primary care…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Oral Health and the most unlike its peers is A T Still University of Health Sciences. 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 backsteadyCommunity Health CentersPublic University Foundatio…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Cancer Support OrganizationsNative Hawaiian Community D…Developmental Disabilities …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%32%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,522

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.

05the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 43 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/34
Grantees still filing
23/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KIDS COMMUNITY CLINIC OF BURBANK — $100,000 · HealthKIDS COMMUNITY CLINIC OF BURBANKNATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC — $75,000 · HealthNATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INCCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC — $50,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INCPenobscot Community Health Center — $49,680 · HealthPenobscot Community Health CenterVIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthCENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC — $25,000 · HealthNCCHC RESOURCES INC — $25,000 · HealthEASTERN SHORE AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENT — $25,000 · HealthIdaho Oral Health Alliance Inc — $25,000 · HealthCENTRAL OKLAHOMA AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH COUNCIL INC — $25,000 · HealthDESERVING DENTAL ORG — $25,000 · HealthKIDS SMILES INC — $25,000 · HealthTEXAS HEALTH INSTITUTE — $25,000 · HealthDIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY — $25,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTON — $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTE…CENTER FOR ORAL HEALTH — $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $25,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF VERMONT - MONTPELIER — $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK — $25,000 · OtherOral Health America Americas Fund for Dental Health BK 20-04264 — $25,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S DENTAL HEALTH PROJECT — $25,000 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA — $25,000 · OtherAPPLE TREE DENTAL — $25,000 · OtherFlorida Public Health Institute Inc — $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $25,000 · OtherMISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION & WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT — $25,000 · OtherMHIN INC — $25,000 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS — $25,000 · OtherNATIONAL BLEEDING DISORDERS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherGARY AND MARY WEST SENIOR DENTAL CENTER INC — $22,700 · OtherA T Still University of Health Sciences — $50,000 · EducationA T Still Un…Midwestern University — $25,000 · EducationMidwestern U…New York University — $25,000 · EducationNew York Uni…TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · EducationTEXAS TECH F…New Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc — $25,000 · EducationNew Mexico S…THE VISCARDI CENTER INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE VISCA…DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesDEVELOPME…KINDERSMILE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesKINDERSMI…FENWICK FOUNDATION — $5,500 · Human ServicesUNFUNDED LIST — $25,000 · PhilanthropyCANDID — $25,000 · PhilanthropyAfter Innocence — $25,000 · Crime & Legal
Health$524,680Other$472,700Education$150,000Human Services$105,500Philanthropy$50,000Crime & Legal$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKIDS COMMUNITY CLINIC OF BURBANK — $100,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetNATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC — $75,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetA T Still University of Health Sciences — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPenobscot Community Health Center — $49,680 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ORAL HEALTH — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetVIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAfter Innocence — $25,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMidwestern University — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNCCHC RESOURCES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNew York University — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOral Health America Americas Fund for Dental Health BK 20-04264 — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTERN SHORE AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENT — $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S DENTAL HEALTH PROJECT — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNFUNDED LIST — $25,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetIdaho Oral Health Alliance Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetCANDID — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL OKLAHOMA AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH COUNCIL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDESERVING DENTAL ORG — $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetKIDS SMILES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS HEALTH INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAPPLE TREE DENTAL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFlorida Public Health Institute Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetMHIN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKINDERSMILE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL BLEEDING DISORDERS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGARY AND MARY WEST SENIOR DENTAL CENTER INC — $22,700 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFENWICK FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 1y, 2.6% 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.

Carequest Foundation …ADA FoundationDelta Dental Communit…Oral Health America A…America's Toothfairy …CareQuest Institute f…American Academy of P…Patterson FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…
Carequest Foundation IncMA28.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carequest Foundation Inc · ADA Foundation · Delta Dental Community Care Foundation · Oral Health America Americas Fund for Dental Health BK 20-04264 · America's Toothfairy National Children's Oral Health Foundation · CareQuest Institute for Oral Health Inc · American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Foundation · Patterson Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Dental Trade Alliance Foundation 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 · 20%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Eastern Shore Area Health Education Cent — 21% of income from government
  • Central Oklahoma American Indian Health Council Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Kindersmile Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report 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 43 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.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home