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AMERICAN DENTAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION

AMERICAN DENTAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION (Alaska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being DELTA DENTAL COMMUNITY CARE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$131k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$6k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What American Dental Therapy Association does

Mission

Our mission is to ensure that all americans have access to high-quality oral health care. Founded in 2006, the American Dental Therapy Association (adta) is the national professional society for dental therapists. Each year, adta supports dental therapists in providing vital oral health care to hundreds of thousands of americans. We educate the public about the value of dental therapists, create educational and career advancement opportunities for dental therapists, and support educational institutions in developing superior dental therapy programs.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. In 2024, the American Dental Therapy Association (adta) continued to advance its mission of expanding access to oral healthcare and supporting the dental therapy profession through education, collaboration, and advocacy. We hosted the adta annual conference in orlando, florida, bringing together nearly 100 dental therapy advocates, dental therapists, dentists, and other stakeholders from florida and surrounding states. The event focused on increasing access to care through the utilization and expansion of dental therapists.learning management system (lms) development: launched a continuing education (cq) lms to host professional development content.established a monthly webinar program, free for adta members and at a nominal fee for non-members.integrated annual conference programs (up to two years of content) for ongoing professional access.sponsorship and revenue opportunities: developed a structured sponsorship framework to support educational offerings, events, and member programming.national dental therapy compensation survey: designed and initiated a nationwide compensation survey to collect data on dental therapist employment, wages, and benefits across the u.s.educational…

    $147,264 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $147,264.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($191k) Expenses 100 ($39k) Net assets 100 ($153k)2023 Revenue 69 ($132k) Expenses 667 ($259k) Net assets 19 ($30k)2024 Revenue 69 ($131k) Expenses 400 ($155k) Net assets 4 ($6k)
202220232024
Revenue (69)Expenses (400)Net assets (4)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $153k to $30k (−81%).

$153k
$30k
$6k
202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

70% of AMERICAN DENTAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$153k
’22
−$127k
’23
−$24k
’24

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Cristina Bowerman

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN DENTAL THERAPY 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.

Where its funders are

AMERICAN DENTAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 1 state in all.

CA

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AMERICAN DENTAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION's revenue fell 31% between 2022 and 2024.

Operating margin−18% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−17% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like AMERICAN DENTAL THERAPY 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 Alaska

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN DENTAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION?
AMERICAN DENTAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION (Alaska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being DELTA DENTAL COMMUNITY CARE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN DENTAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to AMERICAN DENTAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN DENTAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION?
DELTA DENTAL COMMUNITY CARE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN DENTAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 1 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