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· Public charity

The William J Gies Foundation for the Advancement of Dentistry of the Adea

To lead and support the health professions community in preparing future-ready oral health professionals.

$236k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$94k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Education$685kHealth$126kInternational$13kSocial Science$10k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $222,050, the rows itemized in this filing. The $235,926 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,876 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $73k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $149k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BELL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$94,050
REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF CA-SD$55,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE$18,000
MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY$15,000
AUGUSTA UNIV RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER$10,000
RESEARCH FOUNDATION STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $15k → 7%LIAISON INT'L INC: $13k → 8%REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF CA-SD: $55k → 11%CABRILLO COLLEGE FND: $25k → 13%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $8k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON: $41k → 16%MEDICAL UNIV OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $10k → 12%AMERICAN DENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $53k → 14%University of Florida: $10k → 19%University of Michigan Dentistry: $45k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY: $11k → 15%PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%BELL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $94k → 13%TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $22k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI BLUE ASH COLLEGE: $25k → 16%MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 7%SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE: $15k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $10k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 23%RUTGERS SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE: $28k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE: $18k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: $7k → 15%LIAISON INT'L INC: $8k → 8%TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIV IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $11k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON - SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY: $34k → 16%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $13k → 14%BELL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $89k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $10k → 19%RUTGERS SCH OF DENTAL MEDICINE: $28k → 16%TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIV IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $7k → 17%BELL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $22k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $9k → 19%BELL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $20k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
NJ
CA
MO
KY
MD
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$409k · 6 repeat orgs$407k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
16

Total granted

$409k
$299k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+15%

Still filing today

33%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • BL
    BELL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
    3× · 2022–2025 · $203k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTON
    2× · 2023–2024 · $75k
  • RT
    RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $57k

Funded once

  • AD
    AMERICAN DENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $53k · revenue +60%
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2017 · $45k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
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
American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…

Education
2
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
7
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
10
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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11
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
12
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College; the most unlike its peers is American Dental Education Association. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BELL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $202,855 · OtherBELL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTEUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTON: $75,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTONRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY: $56,666 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITYREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $55,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGOREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $44,510 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $25,000 · OtherIndiana University School of Medicine: $22,000 · OtherLIAISON INT'L INC: $20,000 · Other+8 more: $91,000 · Other+8 moreAMERICAN DENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $52,560 · EducationAMERICAN DENTAL EDUCATION ASS…University of Illinois Foundation: $29,000 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Founda…Cabrillo College Foundation: $25,000 · EducationCabrillo College FoundationThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $25,000 · EducationThe Research Foundation for T…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $17,500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIV…Midwestern University: $15,000 · EducationMidwestern UniversityTrustees of Tufts College: $15,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $12,595 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITYPACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · EducationNew York University: $7,750 · EducationBELL LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATION FOR DEVELOPING EXCELLENCE: $21,920 · Community Improvement
Other$592,031Education$219,405Community Improvement$21,920

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN DENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $52,560 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $29,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCabrillo College Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBELL LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATION FOR DEVELOPING EXCELLENCE: $21,920 over 1y, 96% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMidwestern University: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $12,595 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $7,750 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds AMERICAN DENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Cabrillo College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds BELL LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATION FOR DEVELOPING EXCELLENCE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds Midwestern University ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗

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.

American Heart Associ…Vanguard Charitable E…
American Heart Association IncTX13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Heart Association Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 The William J Gies Foundation for the Advancement of Dentistry of the Adea funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William J Gies Foundation for the Advancement of Dentistry of the Adea. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Pacific University: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
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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Find your warmest path to The William J Gies Foundation for the Advancement of Dentistry of the Adea 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 28 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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