Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation

Analysis

Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Naperville, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation reported income of $1.1m and spending of $1.7m, spending 157% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $5.2m to $1.1m (-79%), an average of -32% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 93%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 80th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Wescom Foundation ($1.1m), GT Holly Skolnick Fellowship Foundation ($1.1m) and Veteran Advocacy Project Inc ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 65% of the total. At year end it held assets of $19.7m against liabilities of $182k, net assets of $19.6m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.