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Delta Dental of Idaho

Boise, ID · EIN 82-0299431. Reported 74 grants totalling $5,178,359 to 34 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.

34organizations funded
$19,970median reported grant
$5,178,359granted, 2021-2025
62%of grantees funded again the next year
30%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 34 distinct organizations, with 30% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 62% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $19,970. Half of what it reported fell between $8,436 and $37,500; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $1,511,250. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
20 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
23 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
15 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
9 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
3 grants
$250,000 Or More
4 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
College of Western Idaho Foundation IncNampa, ID$1,530,000332025
Idaho State University Foundation IncPocatello, ID$1,014,751552025
Genesis Community Health IncGarden City, ID$607,500542025
Community Health Clinics IncNampa, ID$331,215652025
Family Health Services CorporationTwin Falls, ID$325,000222025
North Idaho College Foundation IncCoeur D Alene, ID$282,160652025
Idaho Oral Health Alliance IncBoise, ID$155,750742025
Pocatello Free ClinicPocatello, ID$123,982222024
College of Southern Idaho Foundation IncTwin Falls, ID$97,630442025
Snake River Community Clinic IncLewiston, ID$93,399332024
College of Eastern Idaho Foundation IncIdaho Falls, ID$90,120332025
Adams County Health Center IncCouncil, ID$50,000112024
Community Council of Idaho IncCaldwell, ID$50,000112023
Wellness Tree Community ClinicTwin Falls, ID$40,600222025
Central District HealthBoise, ID$39,120112024
University of Idaho Foundation IncMoscow, ID$31,580112024
American Dental Hygientists AssociationChicago, IL$30,000222025
Panhandle Health DistrictHayden, ID$25,308332023
Boise Public Schools Education Foundation IncBoise, ID$25,000112023
Harmony Health FoundationCarlsbad, CA$25,000112025
Idaho Association for the Education of Young ChildrenBoise, ID$25,000112025
Community Health Association of SpokaneSpokane, WA$24,166112025
Southeast Idaho Public Health DistrictPocatello, ID$23,056112025
Glenns Ferry Health Center IncMountain Home, ID$19,940112025
Special Olympics Idaho IncNew Plymouth, ID$19,275112025
Idaho Dental Hygienists AssociationTwin Falls, ID$15,000112022
National Foundation of Dentistry for the HandicappedDenver, CO$15,000112025
Boundary Regional Community Health Center IncSandpoint, ID$14,623112025
National Network for Oral Health Access IncDenver, CO$13,184222025
Diabetes Alliance of Idaho IncBoise, ID$10,000112021
One Stone IncBoise, ID$10,000112025
Public Health - Idaho North Central DistrictLewiston, ID$10,000112024
Childrens Museum of Idaho IncMeridian, ID$6,000112024
Full Circle Health IncBoise, ID$5,000112022

15 of 34 (44%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 12 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 25 of 34 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Health Care
14 orgs
Education
6 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
International Affairs
1 org
Human Services
1 org
Recreation & Sports
1 org
Arts & Culture
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202113$744,401$20,000
202211$577,091$8,436
202311$515,066$25,000
202418$2,922,889$26,303
202521$418,912$19,275

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

98% of its giving went to organizations in Idaho. 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.

Idaho
$5.1M
Illinois
$30K
Colorado
$28K
California
$25K
Washington
$24K

Down to the city

Nampa, ID
$1.9M
Pocatello, ID
$1.2M
Garden City, ID
$608K
Twin Falls, ID
$478K
Coeur D Alene, ID
$282K
Boise, ID
$270K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

American Online Giving Foundation Inc15 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund12 shared recipientsIdaho Community Foundation Inc12 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc9 shared recipientsDirect Relief9 shared recipientsIdaho Power Foundation Inc8 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $19,970 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Idaho.
  4. 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 Idaho's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 21 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 555 E Parkcenter Blvd, Boise, ID, 83706.

EIN 82-0299431 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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