DDIF: Smile Grants
Funding Amount
Up to US $5,000
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Rolling — applications accepted year-round
- Tracked since
- April 2026
From the program guidelines: “Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until funds are fully allocated.”
Overview
The DDIF: Smile Grants provide funding of $5,000 or less for short-term, educational projects related to oral health. These grants are intended to assist with educational kits and oral health supplies. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until funds are fully allocated.
*All Smile Grant funding for oral health related projects has been allocated at this time. Please check back in January 2024 for additional oral health Smile Grant opportunities. Please note, Smile Grant requests for overall health related projects will continue to be reviewed and awarded until all funds are allocated.
$5,000 or less, these grants are designed to support one time, short-term projects that are primarily educational in nature such as providing educational kits and oral health supplies.
Applications are open in January and accepted on an ongoing basis, but will be closed once all funds are allocated.
Past recipients of this program
Recent awards under this program (from Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation's IRS filings)
Council Bluffs, IA · 2024
$35K
1 grant in Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation's 2024 filings reference “Smile Grants” in their stated purpose. Amounts and places as reported by the funder.
What Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 61
- Total given
- $2.92M
- Median grant
- $25K
- Range
- $5,243–$413K
- By dollars: Iowa 94%, Illinois 2%, Indiana 1%. Top recipient cities: Des Moines, IA; Iowa City, IA; Dubuque, IA.
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 52% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (Formerly Iowa Department of P · Des Moines, IA
I-smile @ school ffy 25 and i-smile silver grants
$413K
Community Health Center of Fort Dodge Inc · Fort Dodge, IA
Chcfd mobile dental clinic
$350K
Eastern Iowa Health Center · Cedar Rapids, IA
Scanners for crown and denture fabrication; 2024 deltavision onesight vision clinic -…
$284K
Vision to Learn · Dubuque, IA
Vision to learn iowa - capacity building to increase access to vision care - 2024…
$271K
Iowa Dental Foundation · Des Moines, IA
Iowa mission of mercy; provider mental health: pilot project; provider mental health…
$180K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Nonprofits
- Dental health
- Health education
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