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Ohio Dental Association Foundation
The OHIO DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION's mission is to improve the oral health of the citizens of ohio and to enhance the dental profession in the state by funding dental education and awarding grants for dental public service projects.
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 2 grants below total $14,143 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $88,645 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $74,502 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METRO HEALTH | $7,143 |
| VIOLA STARTZMAN CLINIC | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 8 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $88k · revenue +36%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2021 · $47k · revenue +50%- H2HEALTHCARE 2000 COMMUNITY CLINIC INC3× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- DCDENTAL CENTER OF NORTHWEST OHIOone grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue +4%
- KCKNO-HO-CO-ASHLAND COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +36%
- LFLIFECARE FAMILY HEALTH AND DENTAL CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +85%
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 mission of lorain county health & dentistry is to provide accessible primary medical and dental care to the under-served residents of lorain, ohio and surrounding communities.
To improve the overall health of qualified low-wage earning adults in bucks and montgomery counties by providing free preventative and restorative dental services and oral health education.
Provision of primary medical, dental and behavioral health services, regardless of ability to pay, to uninsured and other residents of marion, ohio and surrounding areas.
The ohio dental association foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of the citizens of ohio and to enhance the dental profession in the state by funding dental education and awarding grants for dental public service projects.
To eliminate gaps in health outcomes for all members of our community by providing access to quality, affordable, preventive and primary health care.
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.
Family health care (fhc) is dedicated to providing high quality, patient-centered care to all residents of van wert and surrounding counties. fhc offers medical, dental and behavioral health services to patients regardless of a person's…
Uc health foundation is the fundraising entity of the uc healthcare system. our mission is to support groundbreaking work that takes place across the academic health center to provide the best in prevention, treatment, education and…
To provide access to quality primary health care to the medically underserved population of the tri-state ohio valley.
The mission of healthcore clinic, inc is to provide quality family healthcare through improved access and a heightened and unrelenting focus on education and prevention.
To provide basic dental services to low income individuals and families that either have no form of dental insurance or rely upon medicaid.
To improve the health of those we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dental Center of Northwest Ohio and the most unlike its peers is Opportunity Parish Ecumenical Neighborhood Ministry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 24 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 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HEALTHCARE 2000 COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds KIDSMILES PEDIATRIC DENTAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Dental Society's Oral Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds MIAMI COUNTY DENTAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds DENTAL CENTER OF NORTHWEST OHIO ↗
- Who funds KNO-HO-CO-ASHLAND COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFECARE FAMILY HEALTH AND DENTAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CARE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF CINCINNATI INC ↗
- Who funds AXESS FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE CLINICS OF OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds ORTHODONTIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO HILLS HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Dental Trade Alliance Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INSTITUTE ↗
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: Direct Relief · Delta Dental Fund · Charitable Healthcare Network Inc · Healthpath Foundation of Ohio · Deaconess Health Associations Fund Inc · National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics Inc · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · The CareSource Foundation · Americares Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Ohio 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.
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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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