Delta Dental of Minnesota Foundation
Minneapolis, MN · EIN 26-4482509. Reported 111 grants totalling $30.0M to 55 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Delta Dental of Minnesota Foundation, by its IRS classification it exists to support one specific institution in health care -- typically its own parent hospital, university or school (NTEE E117).
- How spread out its giving is. 55 distinct organizations, with 18% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 52% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $100,000. Half of what it reported fell between $50,000 and $300,000; the smallest was $7,800 and the largest $3,000,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minneapolis Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $5,500,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Native American Community Clinic | Minneapolis, MN | $3,344,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $2,385,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Normandale Community College Foundation Inc | Bloomington, MN | $2,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Childrens Dental Services Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $1,530,000 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $1,243,896 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| North Point Health & Wellness Center Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $1,069,000 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Community Dental Care | Maplewood, MN | $910,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Clinical Microbiomics As | Woburn, MA | $679,982 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Central Lakes College Foundation | Brainerd, MN | $575,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Minnesota Dental Foundation Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $570,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Minnesota Oral Health Coalition | Minneapolis, MN | $510,600 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Sawtooth Mountain Clinic Inc | Grand Marais, MN | $503,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Walker Methodist Foundation Dba Vivie Foundation | Minnetonka, MN | $500,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Comprehensive Research Group Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $494,090 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Minnesota State University Mankato | Mankato, MN | $490,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| United Family Practice Health Center | Saint Paul, MN | $475,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southside Community Health Services Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $450,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Apple Tree Dental | New Brighton, MN | $400,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Sanneh Foundation Inc | Saint Paul, MN | $400,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hennepin Technical College Foundation | Brooklyn Park, MN | $375,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Health Service Inc | Moorhead, MN | $360,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Century College Foundation | White Bear Lk, MN | $350,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rochester Community and Technical College | Rochester, MN | $350,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Twin Cities Public Television Inc | Saint Paul, MN | $320,220 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childrens Health Care Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $300,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Minnesota State University Mankato | Mankato, MN | $300,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Minnesota Public Radio | Saint Paul, MN | $291,320 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Open Cities Health Center Inc | Saint Paul, MN | $275,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Northwest Minnesota Foundation | Bemidji, MN | $274,110 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Care Clinic | Red Wing, MN | $235,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Living Well Disability Services Inc | Mendota Heights, MN | $220,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs | Minneapolis, MN | $220,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Childrens Dental Health Services | Rochester, MN | $200,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Family Healthcare Center | Fargo, ND | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Healthfinders Collaborative Inc | Northfield, MN | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hope Dental Clinic | Saint Paul, MN | $140,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Minnesota Council on Foundations | Saint Paul, MN | $123,750 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ready Set Smile Pa | Minneapolis, MN | $110,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Carris Health Foundation Inc | Willmar, MN | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lake Superior Community Health Center | Duluth, MN | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Just Kids Dental Inc | Two Harbors, MN | $95,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lets Smile | Owatonna, MN | $95,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Special Olympics Minnesota Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Prince of Peace Lutheran Church | Burnsville, MN | $70,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mental Health Resources Inc | Saint Paul, MN | $67,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cosmosid Inc | Germantown, MD | $54,460 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Minnesota Association of Community Health Centers | Saint Paul, MN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mississippi Headwaters Area Dental Health Center Incorporated | Bemidji, MN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northwest Technical College - Bemidji Foundation | Bemidji, MN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Daily Dental Care LLC Dba Primal Health | Minneapolis, MN | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Marys Health Clinics | Saint Paul, MN | $27,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Goodwill Industries Inc | Saint Paul, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Neighborhood Healthsource | Minneapolis, MN | $7,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
25 of 55 (45%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Native American Community Clinic
DENTAL CLINIC EXPANSION PROJECT - The Minneapolis Foundation
RESTORE, REBUILD, REIMAGINE FUND - Regents of the University of Minnesota
DELTA DENTAL OF MN FOUNDATION ADVANCING DIVERSITY IN DENTISTRY SCHOLARSHIP FUND - Normandale Community College Foundation Inc
CENTER FOR INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION IN HEALTHCARE - University of Minnesota Foundation
DIVERSITY IN DENTAL FACULTY FUND, SCHOLARSHIPS FOR DENTAL THERAPY STUDENTS, HIBBING COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC - Central Lakes College Foundation
EXPANDING DENTAL WORKFORCE AND ACCESS IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 of 55 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 29 | $6,037,300 | $80,000 |
| 2022 | 25 | $6,688,950 | $100,000 |
| 2023 | 23 | $6,764,200 | $200,000 |
| 2024 | 34 | $10.5M | $107,448 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
97% of its giving went to organizations in Minnesota. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $100,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Minnesota.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Delta Dental of Minnesota Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 30 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 4 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 500 Washington Ave S 2060, Minneapolis, MN, 55415.
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