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Mds Foundation Inc

The mds foundation is dedicated to directing its charitable resources to improve the oral health of massachusetts residents.

$219k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Health$713kPublic Safety & Disaster$120kHuman Services$13k
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 15 grants below total $191,294 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $219,477 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,183 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $173k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE BERKSHIRES$20,000
TDA RELIEF FUND$15,000
DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK$15,000
FDA FOUNDATION$15,000
TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE$15,000
CDA FOUNDATION$15,000
GEORGIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION$15,000
HILLCREST DENTAL CARE$15,000
NCDS FOUNDATION$15,000
BHCHP$12,500
VALLEY DISTRICT DENTAL SOCIETY$10,000
SMILES FOR SUCCESS FOUNDATION$10,000
CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT$7,000
HARVARD SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE$6,000
NEIGHBORHEALTH CORPORATION$5,794
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 (FY25–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BHCHP: $13k → 16%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

MA
CA
CO
TN
NC
HI
GA
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 18% of Mds Foundation Inc’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. Read by recipient address, 76% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 55% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Mds Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 37% 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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$460k · 7 repeat orgs$379k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
13

Total granted

$460k
$259k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+43%

Still filing today

86%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPhilanthropyScience & TechHuman ServicesOther

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

  • VI
    VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $153k · revenue +282%
  • AF
    ADA Forsyth Institute Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +55%
  • DL
    DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK
    5× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • D(
    DCD (DOCTORS CARING FOR DOCTORS)
    one grant, 2022 · $48k
  • FD
    FLORIDA DENTAL ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +38%
  • BO
    BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +139%

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
Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center Inc

Harvard street neighborhood health center serves as the primary health resource to our community, through the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered medical care.

Health
2
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
3
Vermont State Dental Society

The vermont state dental society works to improve the oral health of vermonters and to serve the profession of dentistry.

Health
4
Maine Dental Association

The maine dental association's mission is to support members in achieving excellence in dentistry. we provide continuing education, advocacy, and support to the membership. we are leaders in oral health care in maine.

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5
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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6
Dentistry Vcu

Delivery of oral healthcare. the corporation operates principally for the benefit of the school of dentistry of vcu by supporting the education, research, service and care mission of vcu.

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7
Montana Dental Association

To represent the interests of the members of the dental profession and promote the art and science of dentistry to improve the health of montanans.

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8
Delta Dental of Washington

See schedule oddwa will revolutionize the oral health industry and improve overall health. this includes, but is not limited to, the following: to secure dental service for employer groups, individuals and their families; provide…

Health
9
Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc

Our vision is to be a constantly growing, financially sound community health center.

Health
10
Delta Dental Fund

Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.

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11
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
12
Dental Clinics North

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

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Health Center of Franklin County Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr14%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%37%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr14%30%55yr+

The field is 20% 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,329

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

25 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. 25 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC — $152,566 · HealthVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INCDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK — $70,250 · HealthDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORKHILLCREST DENTAL CARE INC — $35,000 · HealthHILLCREST DENTAL CARE INCCOMMUNITY HEALTH CONNECTIONS INC — $32,155 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CONNECTIONS INCBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $25,000 · HealthBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INCBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $25,000 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATIONHEALTHFIRST FAMILY CARE CENTER INC — $20,000 · HealthLOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $20,000 · HealthGEORGIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION FOR ORAL HEALTH INC — $15,000 · HealthNORTH CAROLINA DENTAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCORPORATED — $15,000 · Health+1 more — $5,794 · HealthDCD (DOCTORS CARING FOR DOCTORS) — $48,000 · OtherDCD (DOCTORS CARING FOR DOCTOR…FLORIDA DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC — $35,000 · OtherFLORIDA DENTAL ASSOCIATION INCCAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE — $30,000 · OtherCAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCESPRINGFIELD TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $16,636 · OtherSPRINGFIELD TECHNICAL COMMUNIT…TDA RELIEF FUND — $15,000 · OtherTDA RELIEF FUNDFLORIDA DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · OtherFLORIDA DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOU…HEALTHCARE OPTIONS INC — $15,000 · OtherHEALTHCARE OPTIONS INCHolyoke Health Center Inc — $12,350 · OtherHolyoke Health Center IncMASSACHUSETTS DENTAL SOCIETY — $10,000 · OtherHARVARD ACTION FOR CHILDREN AND TEENS IN ORAL HEALTH NEED (ACTION) PROGRAM — $10,000 · OtherSMILES FOR SUCCESS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Other+1 more — $7,000 · OtherADA Forsyth Institute Inc — $85,000 · PhilanthropyADA Forsyth…Trustees of Tufts College — $55,000 · EducationTrustees o…HAWAII DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationHAWAII DEN…AMERICAN STUDENT DENTAL ASSOCIATION — $7,000 · EducationAMERICAN S…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $6,000 · EducationPresident …CALIFORNIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Science & TechBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $12,500 · Human Services
Health$430,765Other$223,986Philanthropy$85,000Education$78,000Science & Tech$15,000Human Services$12,500

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 budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC — $152,566 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetADA Forsyth Institute Inc — $85,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK — $70,250 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLCREST DENTAL CARE INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFLORIDA DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CONNECTIONS INC — $32,155 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHFIRST FAMILY CARE CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTDA RELIEF FUND — $15,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCORPORATED — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFLORIDA DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHEALTHCARE OPTIONS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHolyoke Health Center Inc — $12,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS DENTAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN STUDENT DENTAL ASSOCIATION — $7,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

President and Fellows…Health Resources in A…Reach Out and Read IncMassachusetts League …Upstream USA IncPatterson FoundationDirect ReliefCommunity Care Cooper…Massdevelopment Hefa …Henry Schein Cares Fo…Boston Medical Center…Project Bread-The Wal…
President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeMA19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: President and Fellows of Harvard College · Health Resources in Action Inc · Reach Out and Read Inc · Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers Inc · Upstream USA Inc · Patterson Foundation · Direct Relief · Community Care Cooperative Inc · Massdevelopment Hefa Trust · Henry Schein Cares Foundation Inc · Boston Medical Center Corporation · Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger 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 Mds Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Hillcrest Dental Care Inc — 73% of income from government
  • Ada Forsyth Institute Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Holyoke Health Center Inc — 35% of income from government
  • Lowell Community Health Center Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Community Health Connections Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Healthfirst Family Care Center Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Community Health Center of Franklin County Incorporated — 21% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Neighborhealth Corporation — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Mds Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Mds Foundation 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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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