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Michigan Dental Association Foundation

To support michigan residents' quality of life through improved dental health.

$163k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$427kEducation$67kHousing & Shelter$10k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $109,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $162,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $53,500 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $102k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VICTORS FOR VETERANS$16,500
CAREFREE DENTAL OF DICKINSON & FLORENCE INC$12,500
GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC$12,500
SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY$10,000
HOPE CLINIC$10,000
TRINITY COMMUNITY CARE$10,000
HOLLAND FREE CLINIC$10,000
MALTA DENTAL AND MEDICAL CLINIC$10,000
VINA COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC$10,000
LOVE IN ACTION$7,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LOVE IN ACTION: $8k → 8%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT: $10k → 21%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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 20% of Michigan Dental Association Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 70%.

Michigan Dental Association Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 27% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$421k · 11 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
4

Total granted

$421k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+18%

Still filing today

91%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • DG
    DR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $76k · revenue +347%
  • HM
    HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +79%
  • MC
    Midland Ctr for Accessible Health Care
    3× · 2019–2021 · $21k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2023 · $23k
  • CF
    CARE FREE MEDICAL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +17%
  • VF
    VOLUNTEER FOR DENTAL
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +18%
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
Smithville Community Clinic

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.

Health
2
Compassion Outreach Center Inc

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

Health
3
Community Health Partners

Promoting health for residents of Southwest Washington and Oregon.

Health
4
Olivero Medical Health Center Inc

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

Health
5
Mgh Family Health Center Muskegon Family Care

Muskegon family care is a federally qualified health center with medical and dental clinics reaching out to uninsured and underinsured patients in muskegon county.

Health
6
Family Medical Center of

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.

Health
7
Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of Monroe County Inc

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…

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8
Washtenaw Distric Dental Society

Promote the improvement of dental health in washtenaw county, mi

—
9
Matthew 25 Inc

We are inspired by the gospel to provide free primary healthcare services to uninsured, low-income residents in northeast indiana and northwest ohio.

Health
10
Christian Health Center of Howard County

The mission of the christian health clinic of howard county is to provide medical services, including dentistry and pharmacy, to the people of the county who cannot obtain medical care because of inability to pay.

Health
11
Mainely Teeth Llc

Providing Dental services to low-income individuals who are uninsured,underinsured, or have other significant financial barriers to accessing care.

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12
Dental Clinics North

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Medical Clinic Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VINA COMMUNITY DENTAL CENTER INC: $117,500 · HealthVINA COMMUNITY DENTAL CENTER INCDR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC: $76,450 · HealthDR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINICMidland Ctr for Accessible Health Care: $21,000 · HealthMidland Ctr for Accessible Health CareMUSKEGON COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT: $20,000 · HealthMUSKEGON COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECTHOLLAND FREE HEALTH CLINIC: $20,000 · HealthHOLLAND FREE HEALTH CLINICTRINITY COMMUNITY CARE INC: $20,000 · HealthTRINITY COMMUNITY CARE INCDAMES AND KNIGHTS OF THE ORDER OF MALTA MEDICAL AND DENTAL CLINIC OF: $15,000 · Health+2 more: $20,000 · Health+2 moreHOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $67,500 · OtherHOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INCREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $23,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF…MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $23,000 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYCAREFREE DENTAL OF DICKINSON & FLORENCE INC: $12,500 · OtherCAREFREE DENTAL OF DICKINSON…UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $20,500 · EducationSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT: $10,000 · Human ServicesLOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES: $7,500 · Human ServicesSHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Health$309,950Other$126,000Education$20,500Recreation & Sports$20,000Human Services$17,500Housing & Shelter$10,000

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 budgetVINA COMMUNITY DENTAL CENTER INC: $117,500 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetDR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC: $76,450 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetHOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $67,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMidland Ctr for Accessible Health Care: $21,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $20,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSKEGON COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOLLAND FREE HEALTH CLINIC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTRINITY COMMUNITY CARE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetDAMES AND KNIGHTS OF THE ORDER OF MALTA MEDICAL AND DENTAL CLINIC OF: $15,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCARE FREE MEDICAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVOLUNTEER FOR DENTAL: $10,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 FundDirect ReliefPulte Family Charitab…United Way for Southe…Consumers Energy Foun…Americares Foundation…Community Foundation …Raymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
Delta Dental FundMI17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Michigan Dental Association Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michigan Dental Association Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    9report 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.

    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 18 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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