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Park Dental Partners Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNESOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION - MISSION OF MERCY | $7,500 |
| APPLE TREE DENTAL | $6,000 |
| CHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES | $5,000 |
| HOPE CLINIC | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DCTC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MINNESOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY | $1,500 |
| CENTURY COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| NORMANDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| HERZING UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| DAKOTA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| MANKATO STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| LAKE SUPERIOR COLLEGE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +57% since the first grant, against -62% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 8 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- CDCOMMUNITY DENTAL CARE8× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +111%
- ATAPPLE TREE DENTAL8× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue +88%
- CDCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION SCHOOL OF DENTISTRYone grant, 2023 · $2k
- AUARGOSY UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $1k
- MSMANKATO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $1k
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 minneapolis community & technical college foundation helps solve issues of affordability and access to higher education through funds and provides part or all of the funding to the college to develop technical college foundation…
The mission of the cambridge campus foundation fulfills the potential of the students in east central minnesota, by expanding their opportunities and broadening their horizons with an affordable education and promise of a strong future.
Minnesota state college southeast foundation assists the college in achieving excellence in technical education for employment by developing financial and community resources for students, employers, and communities within our service area.
The ntc foundation develops relationships that enable individuals, businesses and the community to advocate for and provide resources in support of northcentral technical college in accomplishing its mission.
To provide higher education opportunities, at the community college level, including vocational and technical training. as a tribal community college, we emphasize the teaching and learning of dakota culture and language toward the…
To offer scholarships to individuals and promote development opportunities at minnesota west community college through the development of external and internal constituencies of this corporation.
The mission of the North Hennepin Community College Foundation is to create access to quality educational opportunities by energizing and mobilizing community, college, and alumni resources on behalf of North Hennepin Community College.
Provide scholarships and assistance to students and faculty for the primary benefit of southwest wisconsin technical college.
Scholarships and financial assistance to promote educational opportunities at kankakee community college
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Through the generosity of donors, the foundation invests in student success and supports mid-state technical college's strategic plan.
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Dental Care and the most unlike its peers is Marquette University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 53 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 COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE ↗
- Who funds APPLE TREE DENTAL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds CENTURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Normandale Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST CLOUD TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEG ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL LAKES COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIBBING COLLEGE 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: Delta Dental of Minnesota Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Allina Health System · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · Shavlik Family Charitable Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Park Dental Partners 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.
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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