California · Nonprofit
DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE
DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE (California) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,914,830 to it, the largest being DELTA DENTAL COMMUNITY CARE FOUNDATION ($2,725,112). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $8.9M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Dientes Community Dental Care does
Mission
To create lasting oral health for the low-income children, adults, and seniors of santa cruz county and neighboring communities so that everyone has the dignity that comes from a healthy smile.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Dientes provides comprehensive dental care for 61,345 visits to 17,041 patients, including children, adults and seniors. They serve medi-cal recipients and offer sliding scale fees for those wihtout insurance. 97% of their patients are at or below federal poverty level. They provide dental education and affordable treatment to improve oral health.
$13,154,832 spent$11,294,386 earned by the program97% of program spendingOur mobile outreach program addresses transportation issues for santa cruz county residents at many venues including schools, skilled nursing facilities, senior centers, diabetes health center, rehabilitation centers, and shelters including our 1-chair clinic at housing matters. Our partnerships bring high-quality dental care to those who might not otherwise be able to receive care. We offer a wide variety of services at our outreach sites including preventative care, restorative care, oral surgery and removable prothodontics. In addition, our outreach program brings oral health education and promotion to residents of our county via presentations and tabling at local events such as the diabetes fair, school events and many more.
$434,503 spent$387,113 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,589,335.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $12M to $16M (+36%).
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: 2017 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 2% · 2022 17% · 2023 8% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Laura Marcus
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $345k → $2.2M.
7 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 30 funders by total. 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
DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
47% 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 DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 50% · 2019 36% · 2020 17% · 2021 16% · 2022 36% · 2023 39% — 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
65% of DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
95% of DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states 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.
Against its field
DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.1M
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 DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Dientes Capitola Road LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE: 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 DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE?
- DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE (California) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,914,830 to it, the largest being DELTA DENTAL COMMUNITY CARE FOUNDATION ($2,725,112). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $8,914,830 in grants to DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE?
- DELTA DENTAL COMMUNITY CARE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,725,112 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 30 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