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BEST DENTAL HELP

BEST DENTAL HELP (Washington) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,041 to it, the largest being NORTH SOUND ACCOUNTABLE COMMUNITY OF HEALTH ($49,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$185k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$168k
Net assets
$654k
4/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Best Dental Help does

Mission

Providing dental services to low income children of Washington.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. Dental Services

    $240,044 spent$194,017 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $240,044.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($126k) Expenses 100 ($99k) Net assets 100 ($197k)2022 Revenue 413 ($519k) Expenses 370 ($366k) Net assets 176 ($348k)2023 Revenue 748 ($941k) Expenses 651 ($644k) Net assets 326 ($644k)2024 Revenue 562 ($707k) Expenses 684 ($677k) Net assets 341 ($674k)2025 Revenue 597 ($751k) Expenses 706 ($699k) Net assets 368 ($726k)2026 Revenue 147 ($185k) Expenses 259 ($257k) Net assets 332 ($654k)
202120222023202420252026
Revenue (147)Expenses (259)Net assets (332)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 $360k to $665k (+85%).

$200k
$360k
$665k
$681k
$733k
$659k
202120222023202420252026
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 45% · 2023 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

5% of BEST DENTAL HELP’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,932 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$27k
’21
$153k
’22
$296k
’23
$29k
’24
$52k
’25
−$71k
’26
29
months of
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

Lauren Bursell

CEO

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.

20222023202420252026
Listed45545
Joined·+1+0+1+1
No longer listed·0020
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $18k → $10k.

6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of BEST DENTAL HELP’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

BEST DENTAL HELP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

82% 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 BEST DENTAL HELP.

30%
largest funder
58%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 56% · 2020 65% · 2021 100% · 2022 70% · 2023 100% — 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

40% of BEST DENTAL HELP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

89% of BEST DENTAL HELP's grant income comes from Washington funders.

WA
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’22
’23
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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

BEST DENTAL HELP holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 310 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−39% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve29.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 310 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

Organizations like BEST DENTAL HELP

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 Washington

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BEST DENTAL HELP: 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 BEST DENTAL HELP?
BEST DENTAL HELP (Washington) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,041 to it, the largest being NORTH SOUND ACCOUNTABLE COMMUNITY OF HEALTH ($49,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BEST DENTAL HELP have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $168,041 in grants to BEST DENTAL HELP, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BEST DENTAL HELP?
NORTH SOUND ACCOUNTABLE COMMUNITY OF HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $49,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BEST DENTAL HELP find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), and the filings of 10 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing