Delta Dental Community Care Foundation

• This foundation funds oral health access, oral health education, oral health research, dental scholarships, community needs and a multi-year programme on older adult oral health, particularly for people living in poverty, people of colour and those with mobility issues, so a project outside oral health or these community and scholarship themes is unlikely to fit.
• It accepts applications by invitation only and does not accept unsolicited requests, though organisations that consider themselves a good fit are asked to get in touch at foundation@delta.org rather than submit a formal application unprompted.
• For request size, think modest: about 8 in 10 grants fall between $5,000 and $160,000 and the median grant is $40,000, though the largest single grant was $4,000,000, so very large asks are not impossible but are exceptional.
• A high share of grant dollars, 87%, has gone to organisations also funded in the two prior filings, suggesting this is a relationship-led funder where repeat partners take the lion's share of funding by value, so new applicants should expect to build a relationship over time rather than expect a first approach to land a grant immediately.
• Its geographic focus is the country, so location alone should not rule an organisation out, but fit with its named programme areas and a willingness to approach via invitation or direct contact are essential before applying.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• American Heart Association · Community giving- health
  $4,000,0002025 tax year
• United Health Centers of the San Joaquin Valley · Community giving- dental
  $1,000,0002025 tax year
• Community Clinics Health Network Dba Health Quality Partners · Community giving- dental
  $988,0002025 tax year
• Delta Health Center · Community giving- dental
  $876,9002025 tax year
• Mary's Center · Community giving- dental
  $661,7642025 tax year
• Dientes Community Dental Care · Community giving- dental
  $574,3072025 tax year
• American National Red Cross Dba American Red Cross · Disaster fund
  $500,0002025 tax year
• Delta Health Center · Community giving- dental
  $500,0002025 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.