Grants made by Carequest Institute For Oral Health
Carequest Institute For Oral Health (EIN 38-4016550) reported 106 grants totaling $13.8M in FY2022 on Schedule I of its IRS Form 990 — the 100 largest are listed below. See the full financial profile for revenue, ratings and leadership.
Grant recipients (FY2022) · $13.8M total
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| National Network of Public Health Institutes | This proposal is for the national network of public health institutes to support the oral health progress and equity network (open) in finalizing the necessary steps towards organizational independence, implementing a newly established fund development strategy, and advancing local, state, and federal oral health policy through engagement of the national open network. | $500,000 |
| National Network of Public Health Institutes | This proposal is for the national network of public health institutes to support the oral health progress and equity network (open) in finalizing the necessary steps towards organizational independence, implementing a newly established fund development strategy, and advancing local, state, and federal oral health policy through engagement of the national open network. | $500,000 |
| National Network of Public Health Institutes | This proposal is for the national network of public health institutes to support the oral health progress and equity network (open) in finalizing the necessary steps towards organizational independence, implementing a newly established fund development strategy, and advancing local, state, and federal oral health policy through engagement of the national open network. | $500,000 |
| National Network of Public Health Institutes | This proposal is for the national network of public health institutes to support the oral health progress and equity network (open) in finalizing the necessary steps towards organizational independence, implementing a newly established fund development strategy, and advancing local, state, and federal oral health policy through engagement of the national open network. | $500,000 |
| Hispanic Dental Association | The purpose of this grant is to support four carequest institute for oral health promotional pieces in the quarterly journal of the hispanic dental association. | $306,965 |
| Families USA | The purpose of this grant is to build upon the existing momentum of families usa's oral health for all campaign, a long-term, multi-faceted campaign to expand access to oral healthcare through medicaid and medicare policy. | $262,500 |
| Families USA | The purpose of this grant is to build upon the existing momentum of families usa's oral health for all campaign, a long-term, multi-faceted campaign to expand access to oral healthcare through medicaid and medicare policy. | $262,500 |
| Community Catalyst Inc | This proposal supports community catalyst to serve as a critical and strategic partner to carequest institute through advancing federal oral health policy, strengthening the capacity of carequest institute grantees to engage in community-driven policy advocacy, and supporting and expanding consumer-driven demand for new, integrated, minimally invasive, person-centered models of care. | $250,000 |
| Community Catalyst Inc | This proposal supports community catalyst to serve as a critical and strategic partner to carequest institute through advancing federal oral health policy, strengthening the capacity of carequest institute grantees to engage in community-driven policy advocacy, and supporting and expanding consumer-driven demand for new, integrated, minimally invasive, person-centered models of care. | $250,000 |
| Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board | The purpose of this grant is to support the northwest portland area indian health board's efforts to implement the community health aide program (chap) at the federal level, as well as design and implement indigenized health aide programs to improve oral health access in the pacific northwest. | $204,522 |
| California Pan-ethnic Health Network | The purpose of this grant is to support advocacy efforts to protect and expand medicaid coverage of oral health care as well as strengthen the linguistic and cultural quality of care through community advocacy training and grassroots capacity building. | $200,000 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | This grant will support the center for the integration of primary care and oral health (cipcoh), as a part of harvard school of dental medicine, implement the third phase of the 100 million mouths campaign, expanding the number of states with designated champions by eight. | $200,000 |
| New York University | The proposal is to support the oral health nursing education program (ohnep) at new york university (nyu) in deepening oral health within the nursing standards of care, expanding nursing curricula to be inclusive of serving the oral health needs of patients with special health care needs, and further institutionalizing oral health within care for veterans. | $200,000 |
| University of Washington | This proposal is to support the university of washington in developing an innovative data simulation tool that will build support for states across the country in building a measurable and financial justification for protecting medicaid adult dental benefits. | $190,000 |
| Trustees of Boston University | The purpose of this grant is to implement and assess a continuing education program for massachusetts oral health providers that will increase providers serving as dental homes for children under 3, as well as piloting a complimenting value-based payment model. | $186,400 |
| Health Care For All | The purpose of this grant is to support health care for all's oral health policy and advocacy work promoting integration within the medicaid 1115 waiver, to maintain a comprehensive adult dental benefit, to establish a statewide oral health equity commission, and to explore teledentistry and innovative workforce models. | $185,991 |
| Florida Voices For Health | The purpose of this grant is to support florida voices for health's capacity to integrate and sustain important coalition-building and advocacy development activities, initiated by florida institute for innovation, into its ongoing efforts to establish a medicaid adult dental benefit in florida | $179,300 |
| University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc | The purpose of this grant is to support year two of the statewide prenatal and post-partum advisory board (ppab) in assessing barriers to care for this population and developing solutions for these systemic issues. | $175,293 |
| Childrens Action Alliance Inc | The purpose of this grant is to support children's action alliance and arizona oral health coalition's (caa/azohc) efforts to advocate for comprehensive medicaid adult dental coverage, access to care for underserved and under-resourced populations, and enhanced emphasis on provider cultural competency. | $175,000 |
| Colorado Consumer Health Initiative | The purpose of this grant is to support the development of a community-driven colorado oral health agenda and ensuring community voices in the development of the colorado oral health coalition infrastructure. | $175,000 |
| Arcora Foundation | The purpose of this grant is to strengthen the integration of oral health within the community health worker workforce at a national level, to build a new national partnership focused on interprofessional education, and to advance the recommendations from the hrsa advisory committee on training in primary care medicine and dentistry. | $167,545 |
| Missouri Coalition For Oral Healthinc | The purpose of this grant is to support the missouri oral health coalition in piloting a value-based, dental alternative payment model specifically to serve people with disabilities through teledentistry. | $165,919 |
| Texas Health Institute | The purpose of this grant is to support texas health institute in implementing a multi-pronged strategy to partner with both local organizations and decision-makers across the state to build an oral health policy agenda while implementing efforts to specifically strengthen the texas safety net. | $163,067 |
| Public Health Foundation Inc | The purpose of this grant is to support the american dental therapy association to strengthen its internal organizational and financial infrastructure while launching a strategy to strengthen the alignment and capacity of the practice of dental therapy. | $160,707 |
| Michigan Primary Care Association | This grant will support the michigan primary care association to partner with the carequest institute health transformation team to implement the community oral health transformation (corht) initiative through implementing an intentionally designed capacity-building initiative for michigan community health centers to position the safety net for implementing new models of oral health value-based care and payment (vbc/p) | $156,777 |
| Oral Health Kansas Inc | The purpose of the grant is to ensure consumer and community voice are elevated as kansas implements the new medicaid adult dental benefit and assesses its preliminary implementation. | $156,147 |
| Idaho Primary Care Association | The purpose of this grant is to support the idaho primary care association in implementing the carequest institute three domains framework through piloting teledentistry to increase access to care in a frontier community, testing the use of minimally invasive care procedures within community health centers and advancing the integration of dental data into the state health information exchange. | $152,988 |
| The Denver Health and Hospitals Foundation | The purpose of this grant is to support the denver health foundation, in partnership with denver health, to demonstrate the impact of a new integrated approach to delivering hpv vaccines in dental settings to expand access to new, whole-person care models. | $152,359 |
| Msda Charitable and Educational Foundaton Inc | The purpose of this grant is to secure a medicaid adult dental benefit in maryland and to improve access to oral health care for pregnant people by expanding the scope of practice of certain key members of oral health care teams. | $150,975 |
| West Virginians For Affordablehealth Care | The purpose of this grant is to build a grassroots advocacy base for west virginians for affordable health care's medicaid buy-in proposal which will protect medicaid beneficiaries from losing coverage due to modest income increases by providing additional affordable coverage options. | $150,075 |
| Coalition of Texans With Disabilities Inc | This grant is to support community health center, inc., to advance an equity-grounded, patient-centered approach to improving dental care access, utilization, and outcomes among people living with hiv and aids. | $150,000 |
| Altamed Health Services Corp | The purpose of this grant is to support altamed's advocacy training initiatives for residents of southeast los angeles and the development and dissemination of an equity-based, systems-change toolkit to federally qualified health centers in and beyond southern california. | $150,000 |
| American Childrens Campaign Inc | The purpose of this grant is to support american children's campaign (acc) to execute its strategic advocacy work, which focuses primarily on a scientific polling effort and ensuing communications campaign in support of dental therapy authorization in florida. | $150,000 |
| Asian Resources Inc | The purpose of this grant is to support efforts to advance equity through language access policy, improved statewide data collection and reporting systems, and the elevation of asian american, native hawaiian, and pacific islander (aanhpi) community voices in oral health in california. | $150,000 |
| Children Now | This proposal is to support children now in protecting and advancing california health policies and regulations related to accountable care coordination, funding for coverage, and school-based oral health programming. | $150,000 |
| Michigan Oral Health Coalition | The purpose of this grant is to support michigan oral health coalition's advocacy to increase funding for adult medicaid dental services and to host community conversations in key areas of the state exploring barriers to care. | $150,000 |
| National Network For Oral Health Access Inc | This grant will support the national network of oral health access in organizing and implementing a network approach to strengthening the capacity of the primary care associations across the country to advance policy and regulatory change that drive oral health transformation | $146,215 |
| Achieva | The purpose of this grant is to expand access to oral health care for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (idd) through the designation of this population as a medically underserved population. | $144,442 |
| American Academy of Pediatrics Inc | This proposal will support the american academy of pediatrics to deepen understanding, elevate opportunities, and build consensus around new clinically integrated opportunities for pediatricians applying silver-diamine fluoride to advance the integration of oral health into primary care | $143,795 |
| Health Disparities Collaborative of Ohio | The purpose of this grant is to support ohio federation for health equity and social justice to sustain its engagement of kinship caregivers and the youth in their care through story collection, policy advocacy, and the development and distribution of an oral health advocates toolkit designed to mobilize communities. | $142,765 |
| Connecticut Oral Health Initiative Inc | This grant is intended to support the connecticut oral health initiative to advance a new oral health policy agenda that was developed through a 2022 medicaid gap analysis that focused on expanding benefit caps, revising the dental therapy licensure, and building public and provider support for alternative payment models in oral health. | $140,000 |
| Nc Child | This grant is to support nc child to distill feedback from historically marginalized communities across north carolina into a policy advocacy agenda and galvanize local and statewide support for advancing oral health policy targeted at oral health system transformation. | $140,000 |
| South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center | The purpose of this grant is to support south carolina appleseed legal justice center to carry out a statewide oral health landscape analysis, engage communities and organizational partners for the healthcare stories project, and to advocate for medicaid expansion that includes dental benefits in south carolina. | $135,520 |
| Utah Health Policy Project | The purpose of this grant is to strengthen the oral health capacity of utah health policy project's health access assisters, strengthen a coalition of community-driven oral health advocates, and elevate consumer stories around oral health policy opportunities in utah. | $135,000 |
| University of New Haven | The purpose of this grant is to pilot an integrated model of oral health care with sexually transmitted infection/disease (sti/std) identification, care, and referral, and to advance policy and payment in order to expand adoption and spread of the model. | $133,864 |
| Hawaii Public Health Institute | The purpose of this grant is to capitalize on the momentum created from passing a comprehensive medicaid adult dental benefit by assessing and advancing network adequacy, engaging communities to identify opportunities to employ new models of care and strengthening data equity across the state. | $132,574 |
| West Virginia University Research Corporation | The purpose of this grant is to support a robust, multi-year impact analysis of the newly implemented medicaid adult dental benefit in west virginia including its effects on cost of care, benefit utilization rates, emergency department (ed) utilization, chronic conditions, and utilization of social safety net programs. | $130,938 |
| Solid Ground Washington | The purpose of this grant is to support poverty action, a leading organization within the washington dental access campaign, to engage new community and legislative stakeholders with an expanded set of oral health policy goals, advocacy training opportunities, and data collection activities that promote equity and racial justice in and beyond the state of washington. | $125,001 |
| Illinois Primary Health Care Association | This proposal is to support the illinois primary health care association equitably expand the oral health workforce to sustainably address pervasive shortages and advance new models of integrated, prenatal oral health care in the dental safety net. | $125,000 |
| Kentucky Youth Advocates Inc | The purpose of this grant is to support kentucky youth advocates the kentucky oral health coalition's capacity to conduct a statewide oral health landscape assessment and play a leading, supervisory, and guiding role to the state as it begins implementing an expanded medicaid adult dental benefit. | $125,000 |
| National Association of Community Health Centers Inc | This grant will support the national association of community health centers to advance oral health integration within the broader community health center field, design new roles within the oral health workforce, and advocate for federal and state policies that advance oral health equity | $125,000 |
| National Association of Community Health Centers Inc | This grant will support the national association of community health centers to advance oral health integration within the broader community health center field, design new roles within the oral health workforce, and advocate for federal and state policies that advance oral health equity | $125,000 |
| National Dental Association Inc | This proposal will support the nda in partnering with a variety of partners across louisiana to advocate for medicaid policy changes that will increase access to care, while at the same time, strengthen the capacity of the nda to be a leading voice for health and racial equity within the field of oral health | $125,000 |
| National Rural Health Association | The purpose of this grant is to advance momentum for oral health integration to improve rural oral health equity through implementation of the national rural oral health initiative and its key pillars of advocacy, communications, education, and research. | $125,000 |
| National Rural Health Association | The purpose of this grant is to advance momentum for oral health integration to improve rural oral health equity through implementation of the national rural oral health initiative and its key pillars of advocacy, communications, education, and research. | $125,000 |
| Solid Ground Washington | This proposal is for poverty action to implement a statewide, community-driven, legislative policy campaign to authorize dental therapy in tribal and non-tribal communities to address the growing gaps in access and oral health workforce disparities. | $125,000 |
| Voices For Vermonts Children Inc | The purpose of this grant is to support voices for vermont's children's community-based quantitative and qualitative data collection project which will inform oral health policy recommendations and advocacy for medicaid-eligible populations in vermont. | $125,000 |
| Childrens Alliance | The purpose of this grant is to support the continued momentum and engagement of the washington dental access coalition, the main goal for which is to expand authorization of dental therapists in washington. | $124,963 |
| Society of American Indian Dentistinc | The purpose of this grant is to support the society of american indian dentists' annual conference through the student representative and primary care provider workshop components. | $124,600 |
| Justice In Aging | The purpose of this grant is to maintain momentum for a dental benefit in medicare part b and promote medically necessary coverage through the centers for medicaid and medicare services, to increase access to dental services for vulnerable populations through home-based and community services waivers, and to build and strengthen oral health partnerships with aging and disability advocates. | $120,000 |
| Nebraska Appleseed Center For Law In the Public Interest Inc | The purpose of this grant is to support nebraska appleseed to build a health policy agenda that includes oral health using their historically successful community organizing strategies to engage and collaborate with communities and consumers across nebraska. | $120,000 |
| Cross Street Training & Academic Center Inc | The purpose of this project is to support ministerial health fellowship to provide education to and build advocacy capacity among bipoc community members, oral health advocates, and faith-based organizational partners in connecticut around systemic oral health issues through its recently created community health worker role. | $117,472 |
| Maine Equal Justice Partners Inc | The purpose of this grant is to ensure that the implementation of the medicaid dental benefit is informed by the needs of community members, to promote the benefit to newly eligible medicaid beneficiaries, and to secure medicaid benefits for maine immigrants regardless of immigration status. | $115,579 |
| New Hampshire Public Health Association | The purpose of this grant is to support the successful implementation of the new hampshire medicaid adult dental benefit by growing enrollment and competencies within the medicaid provider network through training and partnership development, and advocate for the reauthorization of medicaid expansion in 2023. | $115,487 |
| Suwannee River Area Health Education Center Inc | The purpose of this grant is to support floridians for dental access' efforts to authorize direct access for dental hygienists to practice at the top of their licensure and pass legislation to authorize dental therapy to increase access to oral health care for millions of residents throughout florida. | $110,100 |
| Center For Health Care Strategies Inc | The purpose of this grant is to support the center for health care strategies to conduct research and data collection that expands understanding and awareness of minimally invasive care, engage various oral health stakeholders at the national, state, and local levels for interviews, and develop three to four case studies for distribution. | $109,900 |
| Hoosier Action Resource Center | This proposal is to support hoosier action resource center to deepen the base of directly impacted leaders, train and mobilize community-based advocates across the state of indiana and introduce an oral health component to the statewide medicaid advocacy coalition. | $108,382 |
| Maine Primary Care Association | This proposal is to support the maine primary care association in developing workforce and infrastructure in new and equitable ways to respond to implementation of maine's new medicaid adult dental benefit and positioning the safety net dental practices to re-engage in efforts to pilot value-based care. | $103,712 |
| The Healthier United Fund | The purpose of this grant is to support the fund for a healthier colorado to co-lead the development of a statewide oral health coalition, partner with the state's dental association to create a medical loss ratio for dental insurance, and to oversee the implementation of recently passed dental therapy legislation, in partnership with local, community-driven organizations. | $103,600 |
| Advocates Building Lasting Equality In New Hampshire | The purpose of this grant is to mobilize disability self-advocates in the implementation of the new medicaid adult dental benefit, increase the size of the dental provider network in new hampshire, and build the competency of providers serving people with disabilities. | $102,919 |
| Strategic Concepts In Organizing and Policy Education | The purpose of this grant is to capitalize on historic base-building efforts in south los angeles to transition communities and partners into a statewide campaign for expanding the oral health workforce and economic opportunities for low-income californians. | $100,000 |
| Center For Medicare Advocacy Inc | The purpose of this grant is to support the center for medicare advocacy's efforts to expand medicare coverage to include a comprehensive oral health benefit. | $100,000 |
| Center For Medicare Advocacy Inc | The purpose of this grant is to support the implementation of the recently approved physician fee schedule fiscal year 2023 proposed rule, which will expand medically necessary dental services covered through medicare. | $100,000 |
| Hawaii Childrens Action Network | The purpose of this grant is to support the hawaii oral health coalition's (hohc) prevention and access committee to develop policy recommendations and advocacy toward sustainable school-based sealant programs and bolster community engagement within the hohc neighbor islands. | $99,979 |
| Amdpa Foundation Inc | The purpose of this grant is to support arkansas medical dental pharmaceutical association (amdpa) to facilitate change in the areas of education, dental workforce, and community data collection. | $95,200 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | The purpose of this grant is to refine, expand, and measure the impact of the implementation of the teledentistry assessment portal (tap) for individuals with disabilities model as part of care protocol within the care center for persons with disabilities. | $83,518 |
| Southern Plains Tribal Health Board Foundation | The purpose of this grant is to examine the state and national american indian/alaska native (ai/an) data collection systems, as well as the scope and impact of racial misclassification within data sets and will design a series of priority strategies for advancing data equity. | $80,625 |
| Kentucky Youth Advocates Inc | The purpose of this grant is to support the kentucky oral health coalition (kohc) to advocate for medicaid investments in oral health and support for the kentucky children's health insurance program (kchip) by the state of kentucky. | $75,000 |
| Somali Development Center Inc | This proposal is to support somali development center, as a member of the racial justice in health co-funding initiative, to strengthen their organizational infrastructure, develop advocacy capacity as a new area of activation, and to prioritize and advocate for health or oral health policies in partnership with the community they serve | $75,000 |
| Brookview House Inc | This proposal is to support brookview house inc., as a member of the racial justice in health co-funding initiative, to strengthen their organizational infrastructure, develop advocacy capacity as a new area of activation, and to prioritize and advocate for health or oral health policies in partnership with the community they serve | $75,000 |
| American Institute of Dental Public Health | The purpose of this grant is to support the planning and coordination of aidph's federal service internship and veteran oral health hill day. | $75,000 |
| Coalition of Texans With Disabilities Inc | The purpose of this grant is to support advocacy for the timely implementation of two 2021 texas medicaid omnibus bills that include provisions for an annual preventative visit for 400,000 star+plus beneficiaries (low-income adults with disabilities). | $73,858 |
| Osap Foundation Inc | The purpose of this grant is to support the organization for safety, asepsis and prevention (osap) in modernizing and disseminating new infection control resources nationally to strengthen the capacity of oral health providers to reduce risk, enhance safety, and better serve their patient | $65,736 |
| National Conference of State Legislatures | The purpose of this grant is to support learning opportunities around emerging oral health policy issues for the national conference for state legislators' members, state legislators, and legislative staff. | $52,000 |
| Florida Voices For Health | The purpose of this grant is to support florida voices for health to collect and disseminate patient stories, convene community and state organizations to develop a state oral health plan, and improve their legislative and community advocacy capacity in preparation for future policy opportunities to create a medicaid adult dental benefit. | $50,000 |
| National Academy of Sciences | The purpose of this grant is to support the national academies of sciences, engineering, and medicine's virtual workshop on exchanging experiences and ideas on community-engaged approaches to oral health and the oral health workforce. | $50,000 |
| Mississippi Coalition On Black Civic Participation | The purpose of this grant is to support the mississippi black women's roundtable in its community outreach and rapid response work for women of color. | $50,000 |
| Pennsylvania Coalition For Oral Health | The purpose of this grant is to support pennsylvania coalition for oral health's collaborative efforts to restore comprehensive dental benefits in medicaid and to raise awareness of upcoming changes to the state's managed care organizations (mcos) for patients from and providers serving medicaid-eligible populations. | $48,300 |
| Ada Forsyth Institute Inc | The purpose of this grant is to support the forsythcares elder adult dental care pilot through necessary equipment purchases. | $35,000 |
| Marymount University | The purpose of this grant is to support a research project examining how proximity to emergency department and other dental care locations impacts the utilization of the emergency department for non-traumatic dental conditions across the state of maryland. | $30,493 |
| American Academy of Cariology | The purpose of this grant is to support three events - a fall webinar, a spring webinar, and the aac's 7th annual spring conference, themed biomaterials therapeutics in the world of dental caries. | $30,000 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | The purpose of this grant is to support harvard school of dental medicine and its summit and learning collaborative on "integrating care to meet universal health coverage goals." | $29,958 |
| Henry Schein Cares Foundation Inc | The purpose of this grant is to support the she: successful healthcare entrepreneurship event, bringing together key practitioner stakeholders from the medical and dental professions to energize collaboration around employing an integrated, holistic approach to healthcare. | $27,823 |
| Apple Tree Dental | The purpose of this grant is to build awareness and foster new opportunities for impactful research among oral health advocates through apple tree dental's expanded research collaboration capacity. | $25,000 |
| Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors | The purpose of this grant is to update astdd's 2011 prevention and control of early childhood tooth decay best practice approach report to reflect current best practices for preventing early childhood caries, with specific focus on reaching underserved populations and addressing social determinant of health factors. | $25,000 |
| Zufall Health Center Inc | The purpose of this grant is to support zufall health's annual rural oral health symposium focusing on diversity and inclusion within the rural oral health setting. | $20,000 |
| Society of American Indian Dentistinc | This proposal is to support the society of american indian dentists to strengthen internal organizational infrastructure, develop and implement a diverse fund development plan, and step into a position of national leadership to influence oral health policy at the local, state, and national level | $20,000 |
| Senior Charity Care Foundation | The purpose of this grant is to support senior charity care foundation's urgent equipment needs. | $15,339 |
| Levelup Kids Inc | The purpose of this grant is to support replacement equipment costs for levelup kids in order to continue to serve children in the kansas city, missouri region. | $13,600 |
| American Academy of Development Medicine and Dentistry | The purpose of this grant is to provide sponsorship support for the american academy of developmental medicine's annual conference, including support of the student chapter representatives. | $13,475 |
Grant data comes from Schedule I of Carequest Institute For Oral Health's e-filed Form 990, via CharityIndex. Recipients link to their own profiles where the EIN matches our directory.