Delta Dental of South Dakota Foundation

Analysis

Delta Dental of South Dakota Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Pierre, SD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Delta Dental of South Dakota Foundation reported income of $3.3m and spending of $3.8m, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $4.3m to $3.3m (-24%), an average of -6.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Delta Dental of South Dakota Foundation sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within SD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Nami Metro Suburban Inc ($3.3m), Coalition for Independent Living Options Inc ($3.3m) and Florida Keys Area Health Education Center Program Inc ($3.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 46% and program service revenue 46% of the total. At year end it held assets of $9.3m against liabilities of $722k, net assets of $8.5m.

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.