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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.

$89k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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.

Education$412kHealth$107kHuman Services$15k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $14,143, the rows itemized in this filing. The $88,645 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $74,502 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.
$7,143
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METRO HEALTH$7,143
VIOLA STARTZMAN CLINIC$7,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KNO-HO-CO ASHLAND COMMUNITY: $8k → 15%OPEN M FREE CLINIC: $5k → 13%OPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINSTIRY DBA OPEN M: $5k → 13%CARE ALLIANCE HEALTH CENTER: $5k → 17%OPEN M: $5k → 13%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$448k · 9 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +34% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
14

Total granted

$448k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+34%

Still filing today

78%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $88k · revenue +36%
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2021 · $47k · revenue +50%
  • H2
    HEALTHCARE 2000 COMMUNITY CLINIC INC
    3× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • DC
    DENTAL CENTER OF NORTHWEST OHIO
    one grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue +4%
  • KC
    KNO-HO-CO-ASHLAND COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +36%
  • LF
    LIFECARE FAMILY HEALTH AND DENTAL CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +85%
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
Lorain County Health & Dentistry

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.

Health
2
Healthlink Dental Clinic Inc

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.

Health
3
Center Street Community Clinic Inc

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.

Health
4
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.

Philanthropy
5
Health Partners of Western Ohio

To eliminate gaps in health outcomes for all members of our community by providing access to quality, affordable, preventive and primary health care.

Health
6
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
7
Family Health Care of Northwest Ohio

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…

Health
8
Uc Health Foundation

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…

Health
9
Ohio Valley Health Center

To provide access to quality primary health care to the medically underserved population of the tri-state ohio valley.

Health
10
Healthcore Clinic Inc

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.

Health
11
Owensborodaviess County Regional Dental Clinic Inc

To provide basic dental services to low income individuals and families that either have no form of dental insurance or rely upon medicaid.

Health
12
OhioHealth Corporation

To improve the health of those we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dental Center of Northwest Ohio; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 24 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $234,500 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYKIDSMILES PEDIATRIC DENTAL CLINIC: $15,000 · OtherLAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC: $12,500 · OtherThe Cincinnati Dental Society's Oral Health Foundation: $10,000 · Other+4 more: $24,300 · Other+4 moreOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $87,812 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $46,500 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY+4 more: $20,000 · Education+4 moreHEALTHCARE 2000 COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $17,000 · HealthHEALTHCARE …MIAMI COUNTY DENTAL CLINIC: $10,000 · HealthMIAMI COUNT…THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $7,143 · HealthTHE METROHE…LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER: $5,696 · HealthLOWER LIGHT…AXESS FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5,000 · HealthAXESS FAMIL…GRACE CLINICS OF OHIO INC: $5,000 · HealthGRACE CLINI…GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF CINCINNATI INC: $5,000 · HealthGOOD SAMARI…OPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY: $15,000 · Human ServicesKNO-HO-CO-ASHLAND COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION: $8,000 · Human ServicesCARE ALLIANCE: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$296,300Education$154,312Health$54,839Human Services$28,000

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 budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $87,812 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $46,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHCARE 2000 COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKIDSMILES PEDIATRIC DENTAL CLINIC: $15,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetLAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Cincinnati Dental Society's Oral Health Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMIAMI COUNTY DENTAL CLINIC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDENTAL CENTER OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $8,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $7,143 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFECARE FAMILY HEALTH AND DENTAL CENTER INC: $5,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER: $5,696 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAXESS FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE CLINICS OF OHIO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDental Trade Alliance Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCARE ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO HILLS HEALTH SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORTHODONTIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF CINCINNATI INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Direct ReliefDelta Dental FundCharitable Healthcare…Healthpath Foundation…Deaconess Health Asso…National Association …The Cleveland Clinic …The CareSource Founda…Americares Foundation…Dominion Energy Chari…Columbus FoundationDonor Advised Charita…
Direct ReliefCA20.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to Ohio Dental Association Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ohio Dental Association 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 24 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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