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LOUISIANA DENTAL ASSOCIATION

LOUISIANA DENTAL ASSOCIATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $156,883 to it, the largest being American Dental Association ($156,883). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.4M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$157k
Net assets
$3.9M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Louisiana Dental Association does

Mission

Louisiana Dental Association is a statewide grassroots organization whose purpose is to promote the maintenance of good oral health and promoting the interests of the dental profession.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Louisiana Dental Association provided dental professionals with: advocacy on governmental issues relating to maintenance of good oral health quality continuing education and information on relevant issues.

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.

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 ($827k) Expenses 100 ($847k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 196 ($1.6M) Expenses 102 ($868k) Net assets 151 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 109 ($904k) Expenses 105 ($893k) Net assets 159 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 105 ($865k) Expenses 91 ($769k) Net assets 167 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 156 ($1.3M) Expenses 92 ($776k) Net assets 239 ($2.5M)2022 Revenue 131 ($1.1M) Expenses 103 ($875k) Net assets 247 ($2.6M)2023 Revenue 144 ($1.2M) Expenses 113 ($959k) Net assets 269 ($2.8M)2024 Revenue 177 ($1.5M) Expenses 125 ($1.1M) Net assets 323 ($3.4M)2025 Revenue 170 ($1.4M) Expenses 123 ($1.0M) Net assets 373 ($3.9M)
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Revenue (170)Expenses (123)Net assets (373)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 2020 to 2021, from $2.7M to $3.2M (+22%).

$2.1M
$2.4M
$2.6M
$2.7M
$3.2M
$3.2M
$3.7M
$4.0M
$4.6M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 24% · 2022 11% · 2023 11% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

39% of LOUISIANA DENTAL ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,632 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$20k
’17
$750k
’18
$11k
’19
$96k
’20
$512k
’21
$207k
’22
$234k
’23
$406k
’24
$367k
’25
24
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

Annette Droddy

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed181819191717161616
Joined·+8+3+0+3+0+4+3+3
No longer listed·82050533
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $35k.

Funder
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'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of LOUISIANA 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.

Where its funders are

LOUISIANA DENTAL ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 1 state in all.

IL

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Louisiana out of state home

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

LOUISIANA DENTAL ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin26% · top quartile
Months of reserve23.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like LOUISIANA 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 Louisiana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

13
board members
77%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • La Dental Political Action Committee · exempt
  • Louisiana Dental Association Foundation · exempt
  • Dental Access & Prevention PAC · exempt
  • Louisiana Dental Services · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOUISIANA 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 LOUISIANA DENTAL ASSOCIATION?
LOUISIANA DENTAL ASSOCIATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $156,883 to it, the largest being American Dental Association ($156,883). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LOUISIANA DENTAL ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $156,883 in grants to LOUISIANA DENTAL ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LOUISIANA DENTAL ASSOCIATION?
American Dental Association is the largest funder on record, with $156,883 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LOUISIANA DENTAL ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing