· Public charity
Michigan Dental Association Foundation
To support michigan residents' quality of life through improved dental health.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $109,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $162,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $53,500 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VICTORS FOR VETERANS | $16,500 |
| CAREFREE DENTAL OF DICKINSON & FLORENCE INC | $12,500 |
| GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC | $12,500 |
| HOLLAND FREE CLINIC | $10,000 |
| TRINITY COMMUNITY CARE | $10,000 |
| SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY | $10,000 |
| HOPE CLINIC | $10,000 |
| MALTA DENTAL AND MEDICAL CLINIC | $10,000 |
| VINA COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC | $10,000 |
| LOVE IN ACTION | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of Michigan Dental Association 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. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 70% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DGDR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC6× · 2019–2024 · $76k · revenue +347%
- HMHOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC7× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +79%
- MCMidland Ctr for Accessible Health Care3× · 2019–2021 · $21k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANone grant, 2023 · $23k
- VFVOLUNTEER FOR DENTALone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +18%
- CFCARE FREE MEDICAL INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +17%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The VIM Clinic provides primary and preventive health care, dental, mental health, medications and health education without cost to medically underserved individuals in Monroe and Owen counties, Indiana. Household incomes for patients fall…
Free and charitable meadical clinic that provides basic medical services, behavioral health assessments/counseling, well women's check ups, and dental services. opportunities provided for community volunteers and medical professionals.
Provide free medical and dental care to the uninsured of pontotoc and surrounding counties free medical and dental clinics operated by volunteers multiple nights per month
To provide comprehensive public dental health care services to the communities of northern michigan and neighboring regions.
Family Medical Center of Michigan, Inc. is dedicated to quality and excellence in providing comprehensive, cost-effective primary and preventive health care regardless of age, ethnic background, or ability to pay.
Promote the improvement of dental health in washtenaw county, mi
Muskegon family care is a federally qualified health center with medical and dental clinics reaching out to uninsured and underinsured patients in muskegon county.
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
We are inspired by the gospel to provide free primary healthcare services to uninsured, low-income residents in northeast indiana and northwest ohio.
Olivero Medical Health Center Inc is a nonprofit organization that provides high-quality comprehensive primary medical and oral healthcare services to everyone regardless of theirability to pay
Macon Volunteer Clinic (MVC)provides free primary medical and dental care, as well as medication assistance, to uninsured, working adult residents of Middle Georgia. All patients live at or below 200% of federal poverty level.
To enhance the lives of our community by providing education and improved access to personal, integrated, team-based, and evidence-focused medical, dental and behavioral healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Medical Clinic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dr Gary Burnstein Community Health Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 18 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds VINA COMMUNITY DENTAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Midland Ctr for Accessible Health Care ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY ↗
- Who funds MUSKEGON COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLAND FREE HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds DAMES AND KNIGHTS OF THE ORDER OF MALTA MEDICAL AND DENTAL CLINIC OF ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FOR DENTAL ↗
- Who funds CARE FREE MEDICAL INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Delta Dental Fund · Direct Relief · Pulte Family Charitable Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Consumers Energy Foundation · Americares Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving 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 Michigan Dental Association 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.
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.