Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION
MINNESOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,330,148 to it, the largest being DELTA DENTAL OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($1,220,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $394k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Minnesota Dental Foundation does
Mission
Minnesota Dental Foundation's mission is to initiate and support programs that provide dental services to underserved populations and communities; encourage and support volunteerism within the profession; and promote careers in dentistry, especially in underserved areas.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Grants were given to board-approved organizations that have an interest in improving the oral healthcare of the underserved in minnesota. These grants included community and volunteer dental clinics throughout the state, non-dental not-for-profit organizations that have an interest in oral healthcare, as well as those not-for-profit clinics involved in the nationally recognized give kids a smile program in february.
$83,691 spentof which $72,647 as grants28% of program spendingTwo significant programs help the underserved access free dental care. The minnesota mission of mercy project provides free dental care to patients over a weekend visiting a different city in minnesota every other year. The donated dental services program provides elderly, disabled or medically fragile individuals who can not afford needed dentistry with free dental care in private dental offices throughout the year. Another smaller program is the minnesota heroes orthodontic program which provides free orthodontic care to children and spouses of gold star families.
$106,261 spentof which $97,790 as grants35% of program spendingEducation loan forgiveness monies were given to three dentists who have agreed to practice in the taconite assistance area of northeastern minnesota for at least five years to help with access to dental services in that part of the state. The foundation also advised the delta dental of minnesota foundation in creating a program to help repay educational loans for recipients practicing in a rural health professions shortage area (hpsa) for five years.
$108,800 spentof which $108,800 as grants36% of program spendingThe Minnesota Dental Foundation oversees a program that helps retired dentists maintain their dental license as long as they are not receiving any income from dentistry and agree to only provide dentistry to the underserved.
$3,002 spentof which $3,002 as grants1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $301,754.
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 $1.6M to $2.1M (+34%).
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: 2022 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of MINNESOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Carmelo Cinqueonce
Executive director, mn den
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $100k → $245k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 MINNESOTA DENTAL 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
MINNESOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 MINNESOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 97% · 2019 98% · 2020 97% · 2021 96% · 2022 89% · 2023 98% — 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
17% of MINNESOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
97% of MINNESOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
MINNESOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 22,838 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,838 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MINNESOTA DENTAL 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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
- Minnesota Dental Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MINNESOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION: 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 MINNESOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION?
- MINNESOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,330,148 to it, the largest being DELTA DENTAL OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($1,220,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,330,148 in grants to MINNESOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION?
- DELTA DENTAL OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 11 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