Illinois · Nonprofit
American Dental Association
American Dental Association (Illinois) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,173,661 to it, the largest being GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ($591,983). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared funders
- Mds Foundation Incportfolio match
- United States Pharmacopeial Conventionportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $37k → $154k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest ADA Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money American Dental Association raised.
From the IRS filings of American Dental Association’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
American Dental Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund American Dental Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 24% · 2019 84% · 2020 59% · 2021 34% · 2022 88% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
18% of American Dental Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
American Dental Association draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 46 organizations that share your funders
- Mds Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States Pharmacopeial Conventionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Philadelphia Hospitality Investment Levyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Visitor Development Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asae Research Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- CareQuest Institute for Oral Health Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Association of Endodontists Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Henry Schein Cares Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundationshared fundersMD · backs 46 organizations that share your funders
- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphiashared fundersPA · backs 49 organizations that share your funders
- The George Washington Universityshared fundersVA · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding American Dental Association receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record — $1.1M federal, $47k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$666k
- Department of Defense$324k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$67k
- OK$35k
- DE$8k
- VT$1k
- MA$800
- NJ$797
- FL$605
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like American Dental Association
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 11 related entities
- ADA Science and Research Institute LLC · disregarded
- ADA Corporate Ventures LLC · disregarded
- ADA Foundation · exempt
- ADPAC Education Fund · exempt
- American Dental Association Political Action Committee · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for American Dental Association: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds American Dental Association?
- American Dental Association (Illinois) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,173,661 to it, the largest being GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ($591,983). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does American Dental Association have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,173,661 in grants to American Dental Association, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of American Dental Association?
- GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $591,983 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like American Dental Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 15funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing