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Dr Edward B Shils Entrepreneurial Fund Inc

Recognize, develop and connect health care leadership to innovative,entrepreneurial approaches advancing oral health and its link to overall health

$31k
Granted FY2020
3
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0171% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172020.

Health$30kHuman Services$20kEducation$20kPhilanthropy$11kInternational$10kOther$38k
02FY2020 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $25,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $31,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,000 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.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$370k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DENTAL INNOVATORS CREATORS & ENTREPENEURS (DICE)$10,000
ALLIANCE FOR ORAL HEALTH ACROSS BORDERS$10,000
HENRY SCHEIN FOUNDATION$5,000
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 (FY17–17, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $20k → 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.

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 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
Oral Health International Foundation
2
Global Dental Access Days Foundation

At the gdad foundation, we believe that everyone deserves access to quality dental care and education, regardless of their circumstances. dental health is a critical component of overall well-being, and our mission is to provide charitable…

Health
3
Oral Healthcare for All Foundations
4
American Student Dental Association

The American Student Dental Association is a national student-run organization that protects and advances the rights, interests and welfare of dental students. It introduces students to lifelong involvement in organized dentistry and…

Education
5
American Dental Education Association

To develop a future-ready oral health workforce prepared to improve the health of all people and communities through leadership, education and collaboration.

Education
6
Career Design in Dentistry
Education
7
National Dental Board of Anesthesiology

The mission of the National Dental Board of Anesthesiology is to provide for recognition of achievement in order to promote safe and effective patient care for all qualified dentists who have an interest in anesthesiology, sedation and the…

Community Improvement
8
American Board of Oral Implantology/Implant Dentistry

To certify individuals at the highest standards of competency in diagnosis, surgery, and prosthetic treatment in the specialty of implant dentistry and ensure their current knowledge and skills for the safety of the public.

9
Dental Patient Safety Foundation
Health
10
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
11
Maryland Dental Action Coalition Inc

Develop and maintain statewide partnership of individuals committed to improved health among all Marylanders through increased oral health prevention, education, advocacy and access to dental care.

Health
12
Adams Gladwell Durham Foundation

The mission of the organization is to improve knowledge, patient care and techniques in the oral and maxillofacial surgery sphere. few charitable organizations exist within the intersecting medical and dental realm of oral and…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance for Oral Health Across Borders Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York University. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 10 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA — $10,400 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVADENTAL INNOVATORS CREATORS & ENTREPENEURS (DICE) — $10,000 · OtherDENTAL INNOVATORS CREATORS & ENTR…FLORIDA DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · OtherFLORIDA DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDA…ALPHA OMEGA INTERNATIONAL DENTAL FRATERNITY — $7,200 · OtherALPHA OMEGA INTERNATIONAL DENTAL …NEW JERSEY CHAPTER AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS INC — $30,000 · HealthNEW JERSEY CHAPTER AMERICA…THE VISCARDI CENTER INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE VISCARDI CENT…Dental Trade Alliance Foundation — $10,000 · EducationDental Trade Alli…New York University — $10,000 · EducationNew York Universi…HENRY SCHEIN CARES FOUNDATION INC — $10,600 · PhilanthropyHENRY SCH…ALLIANCE FOR ORAL HEALTH ACROSS BORDERS INC — $10,000 · International
Other$37,600Health$30,000Human Services$20,000Education$20,000Philanthropy$10,600International$10,000

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 budgetNEW JERSEY CHAPTER AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHENRY SCHEIN CARES FOUNDATION INC — $10,600 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFLORIDA DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR ORAL HEALTH ACROSS BORDERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetDental Trade Alliance Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNew York University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA OMEGA INTERNATIONAL DENTAL FRATERNITY — $7,200 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Henry Schein Cares Foundation IncNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Henry Schein Cares Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Dr Edward B Shils Entrepreneurial Fund 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 24%
  • New Jersey Chapter American Academy of Pediatrics Inc24% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Dr Edward B Shils Entrepreneurial Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Dr Edward B Shils Entrepreneurial Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 10 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $37k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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