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.
- Revenue FY2024
- $237M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $210M
What American Dental Association does
Mission
The ADA is the professional association of dentists committed to the public's oral health, ethics, science, and professional advancement; leading a unified professional through initiatives in advocacy, education, research, and the development of standards.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Build a community for a professional association of over 169,500 dentists by developing and promoting member value, recruiting and retaining members, fostering collaborative tripartite network (national, state, local), provide leadership development, advance diversity and inclusion, and position ADA as America's leading advocate for oral health.
Promoting high quality and effective processes for dental education, dental licensure and credentialing. This is accomplished through monitoring and disseminating information on dental education and licensure issues and conducting studies. There are also ongoing liaison activities with related organizations which also serve dental education and licensure including the recognized dental specialty certifying boards, sponsoring organizations, and allied dental organizations. ADA seeks to improve the quality of continuing education available for dentists. ADA accredited 1,425 education programs and nearly 44,417 individuals sat for certifying exams.
Develop and produce ADA's annual meeting which includes scientific programs, general audience programs, and hands-on workshops for dentists and their staff. There are also special events such as the distinguished speaker series and keynote address for attendees of the annual session. There is a technical exhibition (ADA World Marketplace) for attendees to experience and test dental products and services for use in their dental practice. In 2024, there were 8,064 attendees, receiving 20,108 hours of continuing education, and 356 booths/exhibits in the ADA World Marketplace. Also included is ADA as the premier dental education provider by providing a continuing education program throughout the year that is comprehensive and integrated.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $234M to $287M (+23%).
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
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Dr Raymond A Cohlmia DDS
Executive Director and Secretary
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
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.
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
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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.
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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 15 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing