California · Nonprofit
SANTA CLARA COUNTY DENTAL FOUNDATION
SANTA CLARA COUNTY DENTAL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,464 to it, the largest being Highmark Foundation ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $17k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $84k
What Santa Clara County Dental Foundation does
Mission
To promote of all types of education, service and research in the field of dentistry, the ultimate aim of which is to promote improved oral health among the population at large.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Santa Clara County Dental Foundation (sccdf) is dedicated to promoting improved oral health for santa clara county residents. We do this by providing resources and funding for programs operated by volunteer dentists from the santaclara county dental society. Sccdf aims to provide free dental care to veterans, homeless people and other selected patients, scholarships to students applying to dental auxiliary schools, and performing dental screenings in local schools. The Santa Clara County Dental Foundation hosts and participates in fund-raising events. Sccdf also partners with community leaders and service organizations to give hundreds of deserving individuals access to restorative dental care and oral health services.
$8,558 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $8,558.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $267k to $91k (−66%).
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.
99% of SANTA CLARA COUNTY DENTAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Shadi Kanaan
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $34 → $31k.
1 of 4 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 SANTA CLARA COUNTY 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
SANTA CLARA COUNTY DENTAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 80% — diversifying over time.
“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
SANTA CLARA COUNTY DENTAL FOUNDATION draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $280 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.
Against its field
SANTA CLARA COUNTY DENTAL FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SANTA CLARA COUNTY 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 SANTA CLARA COUNTY DENTAL FOUNDATION?
- SANTA CLARA COUNTY DENTAL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,464 to it, the largest being Highmark Foundation ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANTA CLARA COUNTY DENTAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $31,464 in grants to SANTA CLARA COUNTY DENTAL FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA CLARA COUNTY DENTAL FOUNDATION?
- Highmark Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA CLARA COUNTY DENTAL FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 4 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