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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 FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$9.0MEducation$1.9MInternational$885kFood & Nutrition$695kHuman Services$674kPublic Safety & Disaster$315kHousing & Shelter$268kEnvironment$245kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $862k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
$100,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STAMFORD HEALTH SYSTEM INC$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$500,000
AMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC$300,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NEW YORK INC$225,000
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC$200,000
MT SINAI ICAHN SCHOOL$187,333
FUTURES 5 INC$100,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION$100,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$50,000
ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC$40,000
THE ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$25,000
THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION$25,000
THE FOUCUS FOUNDATION$25,000
BARTLETT ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION INC$25,000
ASSITING YOUR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $395k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ASSITING YOUR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $25k → 7%Community Action of Napa Valley: $55k → 9%NEWS: $20k → 18%Providence House Inc: $10k → 20%Prudence Crandall Center Inc: $20k → 11%Patachou Foundation Inc: $50k → 16%Heartbeet Lifesharing Corporation: $5k → 14%Community Action of Napa Valley: $20k → 9%Island Harvest LTD: $30k → 6%Madison Community Services: $10k → 12%YMCA of Wallingford Inc: $5k → 12%Caring Hand for Children: $35k → 14%Covenant House: $25k → 17%Covenant House: $25k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $25k → 17%Building One Community: $35k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
MD
AZ
KS
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 48 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
130

Total granted

$12M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+11%

Still filing today

90%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $352k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +8%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +10%
  • AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $800k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • F5
    Futures 5 Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $125k
  • DF
    Dream Factory of Kansas City
    one grant, 2021 · $70k
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
St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc

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.

Health
2
Search for Change Inc

Dedicated to improving the quality of life and increasing the self sufficiency of individuals with emotional, social and economic barriers. this is accomplished by providing direct support and assistance needed to enable individuals to…

Human Services
3
St Charles Hospital Corp

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.

Health
4
Chs Services Inc

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.

—
5
Catholic Health System of Long Island

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

—
6
Hunger Solutions New York Inc

We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…

Food & Nutrition
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
St Charles 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.

—
9
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
11
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center

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

Health
12
Chs Physician Partners Pc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Community Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kenneth Muhlenbruck Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

156 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. 156 of the 187 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
154/156
Grantees still filing
103/156
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Stamford Health System Inc: $3,000,000 · OtherStamford Health System IncStamford Hospital Healthcare Inc: $2,000,000 · OtherStamford Hospital Healthcare Inc+95 more: $2,781,833 · Other+95 moreAMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC: $1,500,000 · HealthAMERICARES FREE CLI…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $525,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOU…+25 more: $605,000 · Health+25 moreUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $300,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL …THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationTHE ACTUARIAL…+17 more: $351,500 · Education+17 morePROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $520,000 · PhilanthropyST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 · PhilanthropyRHI Foundation Inc: $85,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BARTH SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Philanthropy+10 more: $115,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $800,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $30,000 · International+1 more: $20,000 · InternationalCOVENANT HOUSE: $100,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY: $95,000 · Human ServicesCARING HAND FOR CHILDREN: $75,000 · Human ServicesBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $65,000 · Human ServicesA LONGER TABLE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $35,000 · Human ServicesISLAND HARVEST LTD: $30,000 · Human ServicesPRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesNEWS: $25,000 · Human ServicesAssisting Your Independent Living Inc: $25,000 · Human Services+11 more: $88,000 · Human ServicesFUTURE 5 INC: $320,000 · Youth DevelopmentHORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC: $25,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $20,000 · Youth Development
Other$7,781,833Health$2,630,000Education$1,751,500Philanthropy$935,000International$850,000Human Services$618,000Youth Development$395,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC: $1,500,000 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $800,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $525,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $520,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFUTURE 5 INC: $320,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $125,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY: $95,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetRHI Foundation Inc: $85,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetCARING HAND FOR CHILDREN: $75,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $70,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetLUTHERAN PASTORAL COUNSELING MINISTRY INC: $65,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $65,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHROGS NECK LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $55,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMALTA HOUSE INC: $50,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFAMILY HOUSE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHIS HOUSE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORKING RANCH COWBOYS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetA LONGER TABLE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetChild Advocates of Connecticut Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSPIRICA INC: $46,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHIRE HEROES USA INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLADLES OF HOPE INC: $45,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetABILIS INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BARTH SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTERFAITH NUTRITION NETWORK INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF KAREN INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UMBRELLA CLUB INC: $35,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetISLAND HARVEST LTD: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWestchester Medical Center Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCAPTAIN ERICK FOSTER MEMORIAL RIDE: $30,000 over 1y, 8.7% 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.

Fairfield County's Co…The Near and Far Asso…The Tudor Foundation …The Herbert & Nell Si…New Canaan Community …Peoples United Commun…Stamford Rotary Trust…Garden Homes FundMbia FoundationLone Pine Foundation …Newman's Own Foundati…Webster Bank Charitab…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT39.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Odyssey Group Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Odyssey Group Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Alliance for Community Empowerment Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Columbus House Inc: 100% of income from government
  • His House Inc: 75% of income from government
  • Abilis Inc: 74% of income from government
  • Community Solutions Inc: 55% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Prudence Crandall Center Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Homes With Hope: 28% of income from government
  • Stamford Public Education Foundation Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Heartbeet Lifesharing Corporation: 13% of income from government
  • Domus Kids Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Truckers Against Trafficking: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
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 Odyssey Group Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Odyssey Group 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 187 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-PF 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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