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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.

$256k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$91k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$919kPublic Safety & Disaster$5k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $129,778, the rows itemized in this filing. The $256,230 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $126,452 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 · $6k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $91k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK$90,703
GIVE KIDS A SMILE CO MN DENTAL ASSOCIATION$13,075
HOPE DENTAL CLINIC$10,000
NORTHERN DENTAL ACCESS CENTER$10,000
CARE CLINIC$6,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE: $10k → 5%FREE CLINIC OF STEELE COUNTY: $12k → 9%CHILDRENS' DENTAL HEALTH SERVICE: $5k → 9%CARE CLINIC: $6k → 9%LAKEWOOD HEALTH SYSTEM: $5k → 10%MN DENTAL CAREBRITE DENTAL CENTER: $5k → 11%HOPE DENTAL CLINIC: $10k → 14%NORTHERN DENTAL ACCESS CENTER: $10k → 17%DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $98k → 12%CARE CLINIC: $5k → 9%DOORSTEP HEALTHCARE SERVICES: $5k → 11%HOPE DENTAL CLINIC: $10k → 14%DONATED DENTAL SERVICESDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $93k → 12%CHICAGO LAKE FAMILY DENTAL: $6k → 11%HOPE DENTAL CLINIC: $8k → 14%DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $91k → 12%GIVE KIDS A SMILE CO MN DENTAL ASSN: $17k → 11%HOPE DENTAL CLINIC: $8k → 14%DONATED DENTAL SERVICESDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $90k → 12%GIVE KIDS A SMILE CO MN DENTAL ASSN: $17k → 11%HOPE DENTAL CLINIC: $7k → 14%DONATED DENTAL SERVICESDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $87k → 12%GIVE KIDS A SMILE CO MN DENTAL ASSOCIATION: $13k → 11%GILLETTE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $86k → 12%GIVE KIDS A SMILE CO MN DENTAL ASSOCIATION: $13k → 11%DR NINA THAI DENTISTRY: $5k → 14%DONATED DENTAL SERVICESDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $84k → 12%GIVE KIDS A SMILE CO MN DENTAL ASSOCIATION: $11k → 11%DONATED DENTAL SERVICESDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $77k → 12%GIVE KIDS A SMILE CO MN DENTAL ASSN: $10k → 11%GIVE KIDS A SMILE CO MN DENTAL ASSN: $9k → 11%GIVE KIDS A SMILE CO MN DENTAL ASSN: $6k → 11%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$856k · 4 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$856k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-12%
+30%

Still filing today

100%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

  • DL
    DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $707k · revenue -28%
  • MD
    MINNESOTA DENTAL ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $96k · revenue -12%
  • HD
    HOPE DENTAL CLINIC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue -99%

Funded once

  • FC
    FREE CLINIC OF STEELE COUNTY
    one grant, 2018 · $12k
  • CD
    COMMUNITY DENTAL CAREgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +37%
  • CL
    CHICAGO LAKE FAMILY DENTAL
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
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
Waukesha County Community Dental Clinic Inc

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.

Health
2
Dental Health Works of Cheshire County

To provide access to dental and oral health services to economically disadvantaged residents of cheshire county.

Health
3
Midland Ctr for Accessible Health Care

Helping Hands Dental Center is the community's primary nonprofit agency promoting oral health initiatives and providing dental services for Medicaid eligible adults.

Health
4
Douglas County Dental Clinic Inc

The clinic's mission is to make quality dental care available to underserved populations including the uninsured, low income and kansas medicaid beneficiaries.

—
5
Dental Clinics North

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

Health
6
Rawlins County Dental Clinic Fund dba Northwest Smile Center

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.

Health
7
Heart City Health Center Inc

Heart city health center, inc. (heart city) is a non-profit, federally qualified health center (fqhc) providing affordable, high quality, primary health, behavioral health, dental and pharmaceutical care to residents of elkhart and…

Health
8
Cook Area Health Services Inc

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…

Health
9
Lake Area Free Clinic Inc

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.

Health
10
Community Dental Clinic Inc

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.

Health
11
Miami County Dental Clinic

Provide quality dental care and oral health education in a safe, compassionate, and accessible environment serving low-income, uninsured, under-insured, and medicaid populations of miami county.

Health
12
Mercy Dental Missions Inc

To restore hope, health, and opportunity by providing quality dental care to the uninsured and underinsured across Wisconsin. We aim to address health equity concerns, eliminate barriers to access, and make a positive impact through our…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Dental Care; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $706,720 · HealthDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK+6 more: $46,228 · Health+6 moreMINNESOTA DENTAL ASSOCIATION: $95,595 · OtherMINNESOTA DENTAL ASS…HOPE DENTAL CLINIC: $43,000 · OtherHOPE DENTAL CLINICFREE CLINIC OF STEELE COUNTY: $11,500 · OtherFREE CLINIC OF STEEL…CHICAGO LAKE FAMILY DENTAL: $6,000 · Other+3 more: $15,000 · Other+3 more
Health$752,948Other$171,095

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 budgetDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $706,720 over 8y, 11% of budgetMINNESOTA DENTAL ASSOCIATION: $95,595 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetHOPE DENTAL CLINIC: $43,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetC A R E Clinic: $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL CARE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI HEADWATERS AREA DENTAL DBA NORTHERN DENTAL ACCESS CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKEWOOD HEALTH SYSTEM: $5,228 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGillette Children's Specialty Healthcare: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOORSTEP HEALTHCARE SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDRENS DENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 of Minne…Otto Bremer TrustAmerica's Toothfairy …Medica FoundationFred C and Katherine …Mardag FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Delta Dental of Minnesota FoundationMN22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Minnesota Dental Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Minnesota Dental Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 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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