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Oral Health America America's Fund for Dental Health

Early childhood intervention: the early childhood caries prevention project, in partnership with ronald mcdonald house charities, is a three year project designed to develop a comprehensive evidence-based/promising practice protocol in federally funded early head start and head start centers.

$718k
Granted FY2018
31
Grants FY2018
21
States reached
$78k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of Oral Health America Americas Fund for Dental Health BK 20-04264’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2018 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 31 grants below total $525,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $718,100 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $192,600 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 · FY2018

  • Under $10k8 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $395k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $78k
$10,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOARD OF REGENTS NHSE$77,500
CHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES$49,000
KIDS SMILES INC$46,000
KINDERSMILE FOUNDATION$36,000
ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA$36,000
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS CLEVELAND MEDICAL CENTER$36,000
ORAL HEALTH FORUM$27,000
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$15,000
NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$10,000
FUTURE SMILES$10,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$10,000
THE LA TRUST FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH$10,000
METROPOLITAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING$10,000
HEALTHY SMILES MOBILE DENTAL FOUNDATION$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES IN OMAHA$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%METROPOLITAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $15k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $15k → 14%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTIONS INC: $3k → 14%KINDERSMILE FOUNDATION: $36k → 16%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN NE: $15k → 5%METROPOLITAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$921k · 21 repeat orgs$307k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
11

Total granted

$921k
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+6%

Still filing today

86%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropySocial ScienceCrime & LegalOther

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

  • KS
    KIDS SMILES INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $116k · revenue +66%
  • CD
    CHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $94k · revenue +88%
  • TR
    The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    2× · 2017–2018 · $45k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • DC
    DuPage County Health Department
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k
  • SC
    SENIOR CITIZENS INCgraduated
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +55%
  • SC
    ST CHRISTOPHER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue -52%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Sunset Park Health Council Inc

The mission of the family health centers at nyu langone is to improve the overall health of the communities it serves by delivering high quality, culturally-competent primary car, and related services within community-based settings.

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
Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc

Our vision is to be a constantly growing, financially sound community health center.

Health
4
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
5
Community Health Center of Franklin County Incorporated

The full mission of the community health center of franklin county, inc is to maintain a community owned, responsive health center which promotes public health and well-being, and provides comprehensive preventative and primary care…

Health
6
Charles River Community Health Inc

To partner with individuals and families so they can thrive and lead healthier lives by delivering the comprehensive, integrated, and equitable primary healthcare that matters most to them.

Health
7
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
8
Jessie Trice Community Health System Inc

The mission of jessie trice community health system, inc. (the orgainzation) is to improve health equality for our diverse south florida community by providing and increasing access to quality comprehensive primary care services. please…

Health
9
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
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Community Health Center of Snohomish County

Community health center of snohomish county (chc) provides our diverse communities with access to high quality, affordable primary health care.

Health
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Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
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Brown County Oral Health Partnership Inc

The oral health partnership is changing the lives of our communities children through access to excellent oral health services and education. 6 full-time dentists, 2 part-time dentists, 7 hygienists and the other 40 team members are paid…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Oral Health and the most unlike its peers is Santa Barbara-Ventura Counties Dental Care Foundation. 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%45%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,523

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.

04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
24/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION — $285,000 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATIONUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $91,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INCUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA — $36,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAHealthy Smiles Mobile Dental Foundation — $20,000 · Other+9 more — $110,000 · Other+9 moreKIDS SMILES INC — $116,000 · HealthKIDS SMILES INCCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC — $94,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INCHEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH — $27,000 · HealthHEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTHSANTA BARBARA-VENTURA COUNTIES DENTAL CARE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SE KANSAS INC — $20,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES IN OMAHA INC — $20,000 · HealthVIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthFUTURE SMILES — $20,000 · HealthSPROUT ORAL HEALTH — $15,000 · HealthOak Park River Forest Infant Welfare S — $15,000 · HealthWEST VIRGINIA HEALTHY KIDS AND FAMILIES COALITION — $15,000 · HealthKIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY — $15,000 · Health+2 more — $20,000 · HealthThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $45,000 · EducationThe Resea…Nova Southeastern University Inc — $20,000 · EducationNova Sout…Trustees of Tufts College — $20,000 · EducationTrustees …RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationRUTGERS U…New York University — $10,000 · EducationNew York …KINDERSMILE FOUNDATION INC — $36,000 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NEW ENGLAND INC — $15,000 · Human Services+1 more — $3,000 · Human ServicesST CHRISTOPHER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION — $15,000 · PhilanthropyASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyAREA AGENCIES ON AGING ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN — $15,000 · Social ScienceAROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM — $15,000 · Crime & LegalRonald McDonald House Charities of Bismarck — $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$542,000Health$417,000Education$105,000Human Services$94,000Philanthropy$30,000Social Science$15,000Crime & Legal$15,000Housing & Shelter$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKIDS SMILES INC — $116,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC — $94,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKINDERSMILE FOUNDATION INC — $36,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetHEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH — $27,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA-VENTURA COUNTIES DENTAL CARE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SE KANSAS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES IN OMAHA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUTURE SMILES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHealthy Smiles Mobile Dental Foundation — $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSPROUT ORAL HEALTH — $15,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR ORAL HEALTH — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetST CHRISTOPHER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NEW ENGLAND INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAREA AGENCIES ON AGING ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN — $15,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA HEALTHY KIDS AND FAMILIES COALITION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM OF EAST CENTRAL OREGON — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHS Healthcare Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Bismarck — $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BURLINGTON VERMONT INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNew York University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Greater Houston/Galveston Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMINNESOTA COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSTUDENT HEALTH SERVICES SUPPORT FUND INC dba The LA Trust — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Carequest Foundation …Ronald McDonald House…Dental Trade Alliance…American Academy of P…America's Toothfairy …Delta Dental Communit…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…
Carequest Foundation IncMA19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carequest Foundation Inc · Ronald McDonald House Global · Dental Trade Alliance Foundation · American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Foundation · America's Toothfairy National Children's Oral Health Foundation · Delta Dental Community Care Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Oral Health America America's Fund for Dental Health 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.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Kindersmile Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Community Action Program of East Central Oregon — 1% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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