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Odom Family Foundation at a glance

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Odom Family Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc.

$385k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Odom Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Arizona Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Odom Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $370k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’17
8
’18
7
’19
8
’20
10
’22
2
’23
6
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$7.5MHealth$1.2MEducation$580kPublic Safety & Disaster$250kReligion$185kFood & Nutrition$155kHuman Services$135kInternational$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $370,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $385,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $120k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NASHVILLE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$250,000
CHRISTIAN COOPERATIVE MINISTRY$30,000
KING'S DAUGHTERS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER$30,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$25,000
YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$25,000
RECOVERY COMMUNITY$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $25k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $10k → 14%REST STOP MINISTRIES: $35k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 80% of Odom Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Odom Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 12 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down. Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
3

Total granted

$2.6M
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+117%

Still filing today

92%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterEducationReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    4× · 2019–2022 · $400k · revenue +126%
  • Vanderbilt University
    6× · 2018–2024 · $375k · revenue +65%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    4× · 2018–2022 · $350k · revenue +163%

Funded once

  • CR
    CITY ROAD CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    2× · 2017–2021 · $50k
  • UM
    UNITED METHODIST CHURCH & ITS AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • RS
    REST STOP MINISTRIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +117%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
2
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

—
3
National Church Residences At Home Health and Wellness Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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4
National Church Residences At Home Hospice

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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5
National Church Residences At Home Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.

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6
National Church Residences At Home Hospice Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

—
7
St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
8
Ncr At Home Health and Wellness

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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9
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
10
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

—
11
St Marys Hospital for Children Inc

St. mary's hospital for children ("smh"), the flagship of st. mary's healthcare system for children, is committed to improving the health and quality of life for children and young adults with special healthcare needs. a nationally…

Health
12
Methodist Health Inc

Methodist health provides quality healthcare services with a compassionate and caring spirit to persons, families and communities of the tri-state. at methodist health, our values are based on our commitment to quality. we define quality…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Recovery Community Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

16 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,495,867 · PhilanthropyARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONNASHVILLE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyNASHVILLE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $400,000 · HealthSHRINERS …RECOVERY COMMUNITY INC: $265,000 · HealthRECOVERY …THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $150,000 · HealthTHE SHRIN…MARCH OF DIMES INC: $50,000 · HealthMARCH OF …CHRISTIAN COOPERATIVE MINISTRY INC: $155,000 · OtherTHE KING'S DAUGHTERS DAY HOME: $130,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $90,000 · OtherCITY ROAD CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherUNITED METHODIST CHURCH & ITS AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS: $50,000 · OtherVanderbilt University: $375,000 · EducationSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $350,000 · ReligionYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273): $35,000 · Human ServicesREST STOP MINISTRIES INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesGRACE PLACE MINISTRY INC: $60,000 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$7,995,867Health$865,000Other$475,000Education$375,000Religion$350,000Human Services$70,000Housing & Shelter$60,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,495,867 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetNASHVILLE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $375,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $350,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRECOVERY COMMUNITY INC: $265,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetCHRISTIAN COOPERATIVE MINISTRY INC: $155,000 over 7y, 30% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KING'S DAUGHTERS DAY HOME: $130,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetGRACE PLACE MINISTRY INC: $60,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273): $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREST STOP MINISTRIES INC: $35,000 over 1y, 11% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Raymond James Charita…Memorial Foundation I…United Way of Middle …Hca Healthcare Founda…Arizona Community Fou…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN20.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Memorial Foundation Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Odom Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Odom Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Odom Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Odom Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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