Delta Dental of Washington

What it reported doing in 2024

1. Water fluoridation is the most important step a community can take to improve the oral health of all residents. The foundation promotes legislation to encourage fluoridation, provides assistance to groups who are committed to bringing the benefits of fluoride to their communities and helps prevent rollbacks in existing fluoridated communities. Since 2001, over 646,000 washingtonians receive the health benefits associated with fluoridated water as a result of the foundation's work.2. Assisting the work of the foundation are ddwa employees volunteering their time. Ddwa enables all employees to engage with the public regarding oral health through the use of two volunteer days per year. The smilemobile program offers volunteer opportunities in assisting with patient recruitment and registration while in a community. The mobile dental van staffed with dental professionals, travels the state of wa providing preventive, restorative and emergent dental care to children, youth and pregnant/postpartum people with a focus on black, indigenous, people of color in underserved areas of the state. Since 1995, the program has examined over 53,000 patients.3. Ddwa matches donations made by employees to non-profit organizations with official IRS 501(c)(3) status, although the following organizations/events are not eligible for matching: churches, political campaigns/organizations, capital funding, fraternal/labor organizations, trips/tours, mass mailings, organizations/groups that discriminate for any reason including, but not limited to, race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sexual orientation or national origin.4. Ddwa provided $287,775 to uw school of dentistry to cover the Washington state department of oral health dental exams for its graduating class.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 94.5%; rating input score 94
• Program expense ratio: 95.5%; rating input score 95
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Pass
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 97%; rating input score 97; 31st percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 54.5%; rating input score 55; 14th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 0.8%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 1%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings