· Public charity
Northeast Delta Dental Foundation
To promote dental health and education in northern New England.
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 36 grants below total $708,661 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $794,450 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $85,789 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 $10k7 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $402k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $258k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mainely Teeth | $100,000 |
| Saving People's Smiles Dental Center | $58,000 |
| Caring Hands of Maine | $50,000 |
| Sullivan County Oral Health Collaborative | $50,000 |
| Vermont State Dental Society | $40,000 |
| Community Health Centers of Rutland County | $25,000 |
| National Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped | $25,000 |
| New Hampshire Oral Health Network Inc | $25,000 |
| Center for Technology Essex Dental Assisting Program | $23,000 |
| VFW Post 816 | $20,000 |
| MaineHealth - Waldo County Dental Care | $19,685 |
| Catholic Charities of Maine | $15,000 |
| Southwestern Community Services | $15,000 |
| National Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped | $15,000 |
| Concord Hospital Trust | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $340k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 15% of Northeast Delta Dental 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, 93% of the giving stays in NH; read by stated purpose it is 77% — 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.
74 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 10 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k 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
- KVKENNEBEC VALLEY FAMILY DENTISTRY3× · 2019–2021 · $253k · revenue +177%
- MSMAINELY SMILES2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +76%
Trustees of Tufts College2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- CDCOMMUNITY DENTALone grant, 2023 · $155k · revenue +4%
- ASAUTISM SPEAKS INCone grant, 2023 · $85k · revenue -21%
- MHMAINEGENERAL HEALTHone grant, 2023 · $65k
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.
Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.
Community Health and Nursing Services (CHANS) provides home health andcommunity health promotion services in Brunswick, Bath, andsurrounding communities.
Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…
UVCHS in a not for profit organization that provides medical dental behavioral heath and pharmacy services. Our goal is to make quality care available to everyone regardless of demographic or economic status. We accept all major insurances…
MaineGeneral Health is a comprehensive non-profit system with the mission of enhancing, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities.
LincolnHealth Group (LHG) was established to promote and support integrated & cost-effective health care services for the residents and visitors of Lincoln County, Maine.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
White Mountain Community Health Center provides the community with affordable access to high-quality, compassionate, individualized healthcare and support services needed to achieve wellness.
Maine Behavioral Healthcare provides a seamless and compassionate continuum of care through a community of providers collaborating to promote recovery and the overall mental and physical well-being of those we are privileged to serve.
We are dedicated to delivering outstanding home health and hospice services that enrich the lives of the people we serve.
LincolnHealth is dedicated to maintaining and improving the health of our communities by assuring: the very best, highest quality, and compassionate health care services from highly trained professionals; our services are cost-effective…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portland Community Health Center and the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
110 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. 110 of the 128 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 KENNEBEC VALLEY FAMILY DENTISTRY ↗
- Who funds MAINELY SMILES ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds VERMONT HEAD START ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DENTAL ↗
- Who funds SAVING PEOPLE'S SMILE DENTAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MID-STATE HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds VERMONT STATE DENTAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Concord Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds SULLIVAN COUNTY ORAL HEALTH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds Community Health Services of Addison Cty Inc ↗
- Who funds Greater Seacoast Community Health ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NFI North Inc ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Harbor Homes Inc ↗
- Who funds Crotched Mountain Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF THE RUTLAND REGION ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals New Hampshire Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Good Neighbor Health Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds Harrington Family Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MaineHealth ↗
- Who funds The Opportunity Alliance ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S DENTISTS CARE FOUNDATION ↗
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: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Jsi Research & Training Institute Inc · The Harry E Davis Partnership for Children's Oral Health · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Bi-State Primary Care Association 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 Northeast Delta 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Vermont Head Start Association — 51% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Aspire Living & Learning Inc — 35% of income from government
- Battenkill Valley Health Center Inc — 33% of income from government
- United Way of Windham County Inc — 26% of income from government
- Community Health Centers of Burlington Inc — 17% of income from government
- Springfield Medical Care Systems Inc — 16% of income from government
- Chittenden Community Television — 14% of income from government
- Northern Counties Health Care Inc — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Vermont State Dental Society — 9% of income from government
- Community Health Centers of the Rutland Region — 5% of income from government
- Windsor Hospital Corporation — 1% of income from government
- The University of Vermont Medical Center — 1% of income from government
- Windham County Dental Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Southwestern Vermont Medical Center — 1% of income from government
- Northwestern Medical Center — 0% of income from government
- Park Street Healthshare Inc Rutland County Health Partners — 0% of income from government
- Core Physicians Llc — 0% of income from government
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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