· Private foundation
Odell Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Westmont College | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| The New Horizons Foundation | $5,000 |
| Partners in Education | $5,000 |
| Eastern Sierra Running LLC | $2,500 |
| Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse | $1,500 |
| San Marcos High School | $1,166 |
| Dos Pueblos High School | $1,166 |
| Santa Barbara High School | $1,166 |
| Standing Together | $1,000 |
| Trail Runners for Public Lands | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WCWESTMONT COLLEGE3× · 2020–2025 · $96k · revenue +14%
- WCWestmont College Athletics3× · 2021–2023 · $40k
- PIPartners in Education2× · 2024–2025 · $10k
Funded once
- MCMONTECITO COVENANT CHURCH SANTA BARBARA CAone grant, 2021 · $10k
- CUCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINEone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +3%
- PFPreparing for a Degreeone grant, 2022 · $3k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide and develop community relations and financial support in concert with and toward fulfillment of the vision and mission of Westmont College
Teaching Bible Students
The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…
A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.
San Diego Christian College exists to educate and inspire students through the truth of scripture and the development of competencies that prepare graduates whose purpose is to impact the world.
Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.
The training of men and women for ministry in local churches. Specifically, providing a Bachelor's Degree or Certificate of Accomplishment designating the completion of course material required. Also, the rewarding of a Master's Degree…
Theology Grad School Offering Interfaith and Ecumenical Degree Programs, MDIV, MA, DMIN and PHD.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
Our mission is to protect public trail access build and maintain safe and sustainable trails and promote public engagement in land stewardship and trail use for all types of outdoor recreation.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles Bible Training School ↗
- Who funds MONTECITO TRAILS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse ↗
- Who funds STANDING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds Cold Spring School Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds RUNNERS FOR PUBLIC LANDS ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Odell Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Odell Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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