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The Harry E Davis Partnership for Children's Oral Health

The Children's Oral Health Network is a network of organizations and individuals united by a shared mission: to make Maine a place where all children can grow up free from preventable dental disease.

$924k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$211k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Health$2.4MPhilanthropy$187kHuman Services$103kEducation$31kCrime & Legal$28kCommunity Improvement$28kEmployment$5kOther$146k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $889,346 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $923,973 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $34,627 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

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $780k
$72,233
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mainely Smiles dba Mainely Teeth$210,802
MaineHealth$189,922
MCD Global Health$186,952
Greater Portland Health$119,812
Northern Light Health$72,233
University of New England$31,071
Maine AAP$29,000
Maine Access immigrant Network$28,345
University of Maine Augusta$21,209
02The need
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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 (FY19–24, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Maine Access immigrant Network: $28k → 7%Maine Access immigrant Network: $26k → 7%Maine Access Immigrant Network: $7k → 7%Maine Parent Federation: $10k → 12%Opportunity Alliance: $12k → 7%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.

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of The Harry E Davis Partnership for Children's Oral Health’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, 100% of the giving stays in ME; read by stated purpose it is 75% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Harry E Davis Partnership for Children's Oral Healthlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 25% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 13 repeat orgs$608k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +66% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
23

Total granted

$2.1M
$505k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+66%

Still filing today

92%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalEmploymentEducationOther

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

  • M
    MaineHealth
    6× · 2019–2024 · $963k · revenue +80%
  • MS
    MAINELY SMILES
    2× · 2022–2024 · $241k · revenue +298%
  • PC
    Portland Community Health Center
    2× · 2020–2024 · $130k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • MS
    MaineHealth Services
    one grant, 2018 · $288k · revenue -61%
  • KV
    KENNEBEC VALLEY DENTAL COALITIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +80%
  • KV
    KENNEBEC VALLEY FAMILY DENTISTRYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +131%

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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Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health
2
Mainely Teeth Llc

Providing Dental services to low-income individuals who are uninsured,underinsured, or have other significant financial barriers to accessing care.

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3
Penobscot Community Health Center

Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…

Health
4
Maine Behavioral Healthcare

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.

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5
Penobscot Bay Medical Center

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…

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6
MaineGeneral Health

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.

Health
7
Western Maine Health Care Corp

Ensured a high quality, accessible, affordable and appropriate integrated health care system to improve the health and well being of the community.

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8
Maine Medical Association

To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.

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9
Maine Dental Association

The maine dental association's mission is to support members in achieving excellence in dentistry. we provide continuing education, advocacy, and support to the membership. we are leaders in oral health care in maine.

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10
Oasis Health Network Inc

To provide health, dental care and prescription assistance to uninsured, low income residents of southern midcoast maine

Health
11
Southern Maine Health Care

Southern Maine Health Care exists to improve the health and health care of the communities we serve.

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12
Waldo County General Hospital

Waldo County General Hospital's mission is to be the BEST - Better, Empathy, Service and Teamwork. Our goal is to ensure quality, accessible and affordable health care services and to improve the health and well-being of our community.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Maine and the most unlike its peers is American Academy of Pediatrics Maine Chapter Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMaine Health & Social Servi…Aroostook County Health & H…Maine Advocacy & Research O…Supportive Services for Vul…Victim Advocacy & Rights Or…Integrated Healthcare Syste…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%3%<5yr13%7%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr19%36%20–35yr16%19%35–55yr17%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%9%<5yr13%1%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr16%9%35–55yr17%53%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/39
the rest of the field
9%
321/3,521

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.

05the 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 39 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
30/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MaineHealth — $963,457 · HealthMaineHealthMedical Care Development Inc — $414,119 · HealthMedical Care Development IncMaineHealth Services — $287,933 · HealthMaineHealth ServicesMAINELY SMILES — $240,802 · HealthMAINELY SMILESPortland Community Health Center — $129,812 · HealthPortland Community Health CenterAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS MAINE CHAPTER INC — $110,786 · Health+13 more — $256,612 · Health+13 moreMaine Community Foundation Inc — $186,653 · PhilanthropyNorthern Light Health — $72,233 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INC — $26,570 · OtherTHE ROOT CELLAR — $10,000 · OtherMAINE DENTAL HEALTH OUT-REACH INC — $10,000 · OtherCity of Portland — $7,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATION IN QUALIDIGM — $5,000 · OtherMAINE TRANSGENDER NETWORK INC — $5,000 · OtherMAINE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $5,000 · OtherMaine Council on Aging — $5,000 · OtherMaine Access Immigrant Network — $60,885 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities Maine — $20,250 · Human ServicesThe Opportunity Alliance — $12,000 · Human ServicesMAINE PARENT FEDERATION INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesUniversity of New England — $31,071 · EducationAROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM — $23,247 · Crime & LegalMaine Equal Justice Partners — $5,000 · Crime & LegalIn Her Presence — $17,000 · Community ImprovementPiscataquis County Economic Development Council — $11,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN MAINE WORKERS CENTER — $5,000 · Employment
Health$2,403,521Philanthropy$186,653Other$145,803Human Services$103,135Education$31,071Crime & Legal$28,247Community Improvement$28,000Employment$5,000

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 budgetMaineHealth — $963,457 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMedical Care Development Inc — $414,119 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetMaineHealth Services — $287,933 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAINELY SMILES — $240,802 over 2y, 11% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc — $186,653 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPortland Community Health Center — $129,812 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS MAINE CHAPTER INC — $110,786 over 5y, 17% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL — $71,250 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMaine Access Immigrant Network — $60,885 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetAROOSTOOK DENTAL CLINIC — $38,550 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetKENNEBEC VALLEY DENTAL COALITION — $34,750 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetUniversity of New England — $31,071 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENNEBEC VALLEY FAMILY DENTISTRY — $25,250 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM — $23,247 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCatholic Charities Maine — $20,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MAINERS PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE — $19,812 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetIn Her Presence — $17,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetHANLEY CENTER FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATION — $16,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetThe Opportunity Alliance — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPiscataquis County Economic Development Council — $11,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE ROOT CELLAR — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSunrise Opportunities — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAVING SMILES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMAINE DENTAL HEALTH OUT-REACH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetMAINE PARENT FEDERATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCross Cultural Community Services — $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATION IN QUALIDIGM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Public Health Association — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMAINE TRANSGENDER NETWORK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMAINE PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAINE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCONSUMERS FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHERN MAINE WORKERS CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMaine Council on Aging — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMaine Equal Justice Partners — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Maine Health Access F…Maine Community Found…Northeast Delta Denta…Elmina B Sewall Found…John T Gorman Foundat…Sam L Cohen FoundationMaine Cancer Foundati…Davis Family Foundati…Maine InitiativesincUnited Way IncGood Shepherd Food Ba…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…
Maine Health Access Foundation IncME59.4× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Northeast Delta Dental Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Maine Cancer Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Maine Initiativesinc · United Way Inc · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Stephen & Tabitha King 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 The Harry E Davis Partnership for Children's Oral 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Harry E Davis Partnership for Children's Oral Health?

    Find your warmest path to The Harry E Davis Partnership for Children's Oral Health 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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