Mds Foundation Inc
Southborough, MA · EIN 04-3466040. Reported 29 grants totalling $447,299 to 23 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Mds Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
- How spread out its giving is. 23 distinct organizations, with 16% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 41% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $5,794 and the largest $48,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volunteers in Medicine Berkshires Inc | Gt Barrington, MA | $70,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| National Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped | Denver, CO | $51,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Dcd (doctors Caring for Doctors) | Falmouth, MA | $48,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trustees of Tufts College | Medford, MA | $40,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Florida Dental Association | Tallahassee, FL | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| California Dental Association Foundation | Sacramento, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Florida Dental Association Foundation Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Georgia Dental Association Foundation for Oral Health Inc | Marietta, GA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hillcrest Dental Care Inc | Pittsfield, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Carolina Dental Society Foundation Inc | Cary, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tda Relief Fund-Tsda 2104 Sunset Place | Franklin, TN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc | Boston, MA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Holyoke Health Center Inc | Holyoke, MA | $12,350 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Health Connections Inc | Fitchburg, MA | $12,155 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ada Forsyth Institute Inc | Somerville, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Harvard Action for Children and Teens in Oral Health Need (action) Program | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hawaii Dental Association Foundation Inc | Honolulu, HI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Massachusetts Dental Society | Southborough, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Smiles for Success Foundation | Pensacola, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Student Dental Association | Boston, MA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cambridge Public Health Department | Cambridge, MA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Neighborhealth Corporation | Boston, MA | $5,794 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
3 of 23 (13%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Dcd (doctors Caring for Doctors)
THESE GRANT MONIES SUPPORT THE ACTIVITIES OF THAT ORGANIZATION THAT WORK IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS OF MEMBER DENTISTS - Florida Dental Association
DISASTER RELIEF DONATION AFTER HURRICANE. - Volunteers in Medicine Berkshires
ACCESS TO CARE GRANTS ARE DESIGNED TO HELP LARGER FACILITIES DIRECTLY ADDRESS ACCESS NEEDS IN THE COMMONWEALTH. - Dental Lifeline Network
ACCESS TO CARE GRANTS ARE DESIGNED TO HELP LARGER FACILITIES DIRECTLY ADDRESS ACCESS NEEDS IN THE COMMONWEALTH. MASSACHUSETTS DONATED DENTAL SERVICES PROGRAM. - Tufts University School of Dental Medicine
ACCESS TO CARE GRANTS ARE DESIGNED TO HELP LARGER FACILITIES DIRECTLY ADDRESS ACCESS NEEDS IN THE COMMONWEALTH. VETERANS PROGRAM. - Hillcrest Dental Care
ACCESS TO CARE GRANTS ARE DESIGNED TO HELP LARGER FACILITIES DIRECTLY ADDRESS ACCESS NEEDS IN THE COMMONWEALTH. AUTISM SMILES PROGRAM.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 15 of 23 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | $48,000 | $48,000 |
| 2022 | 5 | $94,850 | $12,500 |
| 2023 | 8 | $113,155 | $11,077 |
| 2024 | 15 | $191,294 | $15,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
59% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Massachusetts.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Mds Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 15 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Two Willow Street 200, Southborough, MA, 01745.
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