CareQuest Institute for Oral Health

Description

The CareQuest Institute for Oral Health is a national nonprofit advancing a more equitable, accessible, and integrated oral health system. The Institute provides grants to drive systems-level change in oral health across the United States.

The CareQuest Institute focuses on four strategic funding priorities:

Policy & Advocacy
Supports efforts to strengthen or protect access to dental care through:

advancing federal and state health and oral health...

Opportunity Information

Application Deadlines

Geographic Scope

Areas of Interest

Types of Support

Funder Information

Total Annual Giving: $14,527,259

Grant Range

Average Grant

Median Grant

Total Assets: $21,053,071

Type

EIN

Application Procedures

The financial information is based on the most recent 990-PF tax form for 2024

Requirements

Eligibility Details

Restriction Details

Contact Information

General Contact

Grants History

This funder has a page on their website listing previous grantees.: Grants Awarded

You can review this for their grants history and giving priorities.: Annual report

You can review tax forms on ProPublica. Learn more about them and the 990.: 990s

This is a list of grant recipients noted on the funder’s 990 forms.

This includes forms filed in 2018 and later, so it can include information for tax years earlier than that.

The information below is pulled directly from the form itself without any alterations.

If the details are not included, e.g. “Various”, they may be indicated on the PDF on the IRS site.

Tax Year	Recipient	City	State / Province	Country	Amount	Purpose
2023	Alameda Health System Foundation	Oakland	CA	US	$125,000	This grant, through the disability justice and inclusion in oral health request for proposals, will support alameda health system foundation to address communication barriers to equitable oral health for the disability community through a community-informed project.
2023	Poverty Action co Solid Ground	Seattle	WA	US	$125,000	The purpose of this grant is to support poverty action in its advocacy efforts to ensure strong implementation of a new allowance for statewide dental therapy licensure in community health clinics, to leverage the coalition to compile practice agreement templates and other resources for community health clinics implementing dental therapy, and to convene the coalition to engage in a priority-setting process for policy ideas to increase access to oral health.
2023	University of Florida Foundation	Gainesville	FL	US	$125,000	This grant, through the disability justice and inclusion in oral health request for proposals, will support the university of florida foundation to address access to care for the disability community through telehealth, mobile services, and medical-dental integration.
2023	The Arc of the United States	Washington	DC	US	$125,000	This grant, through the disability justice and inclusion in oral health request for proposals, will support the arc of the united states (arc us) to address access to care, specifically though the lens of fear and distrust of clinical oral health care prominently found in the disability community, through a community-driven project. The arc of the united states will work with three arc chapters across the country that are located in areas with poor health outcomes: arc of louisiana, arc of pennsylvania, and arc of san antonio.
2023	Vista Community Clinic	Vista	CA	US	$125,000	This grant, through the community and care transformation request for proposals, will support vista community clinic in the advancement of whole person care in pediatric patients.