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DELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATION

DELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,955,450 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($8,951,450). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$6.2M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$9.0M
Net assets
$45M
0/2 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation does

Mission

The corporation is organized to strengthen and transform the health and smiles of all iowans. The foundation will provide funds to other 501(c)(3) organizations, governments, or academic institutions that are undertaking projects that support and improve the health of all iowans. The foundation will provide funds to other tax-exempt organizations through their grant program that align with the projects of oral health, oral and overall health integration, and overall health.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Oral health projects - activities that ensure healthy smiles for all iowans.

    $1,647,339 spentof which $1,462,381 as grants
    47% of program spending
  2. Overall health projects - wellness, vision, and related activities that enable iowans to live healthy and active lives.

    $1,424,400 spentof which $1,234,679 as grants
    41% of program spending
  3. Oral and overall health integration projects - activities that promote tighter connections between dental, physical, and behavioral health.

    $431,109 spentof which $338,189 as grants
    12% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,502,848.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.5M) Expenses 100 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($19M)2018 Revenue 162 ($5.7M) Expenses 141 ($2.9M) Net assets 107 ($20M)2019 Revenue 151 ($5.2M) Expenses 119 ($2.4M) Net assets 137 ($25M)2020 Revenue 179 ($6.2M) Expenses 184 ($3.7M) Net assets 161 ($30M)2021 Revenue 220 ($7.6M) Expenses 142 ($2.9M) Net assets 194 ($36M)2022 Revenue 194 ($6.7M) Expenses 204 ($4.1M) Net assets 183 ($34M)2023 Revenue 179 ($6.2M) Expenses 183 ($3.7M) Net assets 217 ($40M)2024 Revenue 179 ($6.2M) Expenses 190 ($3.8M) Net assets 245 ($45M)
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Revenue (179)Expenses (190)Net assets (245)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 $34M to $40M (+19%).

$19M
$20M
$25M
$30M
$36M
$34M
$40M
$45M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

80% of DELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.4M
’17
$2.8M
’18
$2.8M
’19
$2.5M
’20
$4.8M
’21
$2.6M
’22
$2.5M
’23
$2.4M
’24
9.4
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

Suzanne Heckenlaible

Executive director

Board chair

Scott Raecker

Director, chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1816161817191816
Joined·+1+0+3+1+3+2+2
No longer listed·3012134
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $41M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Delta Dental of Iowa). These are real filings, and they are not money DELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of DELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATION’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

DELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 DELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATION.

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of DELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Iowa funders.

IA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.0M 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

DELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin38% · top quartile
Months of reserve9.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like DELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATION

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 Iowa

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
64%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Delta Dental of Iowa · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds DELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATION?
DELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,955,450 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($8,951,450). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $8,955,450 in grants to DELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of DELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATION?
COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN is the largest funder on record, with $8,951,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 2 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