Connecticut · Private foundation
Odyssey Group Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2024
- 109
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 109
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 64% of the organizations Odyssey Group Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 16 | $2.8M | 44% |
| FY2023 | 109 | $3.8M | 64% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $2.2M | 41% |
| FY2021 | 83 | $3.4M | 76% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $2.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Americares Free Clinics Inc | $1,500,000 | 5 | 9% |
| University of Washington Foundation | $1,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Americares Foundation Inc | $800,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House of New York Inc | $525,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Prostate Cancer Foundation | $520,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Future 5 Inc | $320,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| St Baldrick's Foundation Inc | $180,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Franciscan Bread for the Poor Inc | $125,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 164 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Odyssey Group Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 149 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Tudor Foundation Inc · The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · Garden Homes Fund · Mbia Foundation · Lone Pine Foundation Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Odyssey Group Foundation
- How much does Odyssey Group Foundation give?
- Odyssey Group Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $2,842,333 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 109 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Odyssey Group Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (60%), Education (13%), International (6%).
- Who are Odyssey Group Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Americares Free Clinics Inc ($1.5M), University of Washington Foundation ($1.0M), Americares Foundation Inc ($800k).
- Does Odyssey Group Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Odyssey Group Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Odyssey Group Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, The Near and Far Association Inc, The Tudor Foundation Inc.
- Where is Odyssey Group Foundation based?
- Odyssey Group Foundation is based in CT.
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