Maryland · Nonprofit
NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC
NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,228,077 to it, the largest being HENRY SCHEIN CARES FOUNDATION INC ($548,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $-501647
What National Dental Association Inc does
Mission
The national dental association promotes oral health equity among people of color by harnessing the collective power of its members, advocating for the needs of and mentoring dental students of color, and raising the profile of the profession in our communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Nda membership services provides valuable industry and practice management information to its members. Members are kept up to date with information on new technology and oral health as well as informed of the latest trends in the number of minorities entering the profession.
$44,051 spent$45,000 earned by the program4% of program spendingNda hosts an annual convention to provide continuing education for its members in the form of scientific lectures, hands-on clinics and health symposiums. Topics include endodontics, pediatric dentistry, geriatric dentistry, periodontics, cosmetic dentistry, financial planning, risk management and public policy education. In addition to continuing education, the convention's activities include a women's health symposium to address a variety of women's health issues, a citywide walk-a-thon and a health fair providing oral screenings, mammograms, and hypertension screening for the underprivileged. Exhibitor's showcases allow members to meet suppliers and test products used in dental offices.
$803,573 spent$557,026 earned by the program70% of program spendingExhibitors
$106,757 spent$101,100 earned by the program9% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$193,853 spent17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,148,234.
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 2022 to 2023, from $612k to $234k (−62%).
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 13% · 2018 12% · 2019 11% · 2020 13% · 2021 7% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Tammy Dillard Steels
Executive director
Board chair
Reginald Salter
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $165k → $170k.
2 of 19 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $53k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Dental Association Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC’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
NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 83% · 2019 33% · 2020 100% · 2021 31% · 2022 86% · 2023 78% — 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
22% of NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 32% 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
NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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
NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- National Dental Assoc Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC?
- NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,228,077 to it, the largest being HENRY SCHEIN CARES FOUNDATION INC ($548,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,228,077 in grants to NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC?
- HENRY SCHEIN CARES FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $548,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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