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Minnesota Dental Foundation
MINNESOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION's mission is to initiate and support programs that provide dental services to underserved populations and communities; encourage and support volunteerism within the profession; and promote careers in dentistry, especially in underserved areas.
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 5 grants below total $129,778 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $256,230 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $126,452 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 · $6k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $91k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK | $90,703 |
| GIVE KIDS A SMILE CO MN DENTAL ASSOCIATION | $13,075 |
| NORTHERN DENTAL ACCESS CENTER | $10,000 |
| HOPE DENTAL CLINIC | $10,000 |
| CARE CLINIC | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of your 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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
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
- DLDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK8× · 2017–2024 · $707k · revenue -28%
- MDMINNESOTA DENTAL ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $96k · revenue -12%
- HDHOPE DENTAL CLINIC5× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue -99%
Funded once
- FCFREE CLINIC OF STEELE COUNTYone grant, 2018 · $12k
- CDCOMMUNITY DENTAL CAREgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +37%
- CLCHICAGO LAKE FAMILY DENTALone grant, 2020 · $6k
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.
Community smiles dental improves the lives of the underserved through oral healthcare services, preventive education, and advocating for systemic healthcare change, because everyone deserves a healthy smile.
Helping Hands Dental Center is the community's primary nonprofit agency promoting oral health initiatives and providing dental services for Medicaid eligible adults.
To provide comprehensive public dental health care services to the communities of northern michigan and neighboring regions.
To provide access to dental and oral health services to economically disadvantaged residents of cheshire county.
Continue to operate a self-sustaining, state of the art dental clinic that serves all patients including those who are insured, under insured, uninsured or medicade participants for residents of northwest kansas and surrounding areas.
Minnesota dental foundation's mission is to initiate and support programs that provide dental services to underserved populations and communities; encourage and support volunteerism within the profession; and promote careers in dentistry,…
Our mission is to enhance oral health for all individuals. to achieve this goal, we concentrate our efforts on three key areas: 1) access to care, 2) education, and 3) workforce development.
Since 1919, childrens dental services has been dedicated to improving the oral health of children from families with low incomes by providing accessible treatment and education in our diverse community.
The lake area free clinic is the medical and dental home to low-income residents of waukesha county. the mission is to provide high-quality comprehensive health care to those in need.
Our mission is to improve health and well-being in partnership with our members, patients and community.
The clinic's mission is to make quality dental care available to underserved populations including the uninsured, low income and kansas medicaid beneficiaries.
Our mission is to provide medical, dental & supportive services in a remote, rural area of northern minnesota. as a federally qualified health center in a remote, rural area, it is our goal to be customer focused without regard to economic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Dental Care and the most unlike its peers is C a R E Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 14 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 DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA DENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE DENTAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds C A R E Clinic ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI HEADWATERS AREA DENTAL DBA NORTHERN DENTAL ACCESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds LAKEWOOD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds DOORSTEP HEALTHCARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS DENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
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 of Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · America's Toothfairy National Children's Oral Health Foundation · Medica Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Minnesota Dental 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.
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