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Richard B & Barbara B Odlin Foundation Co Mike Wise

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.

$49k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
28%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$8,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 25
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
13
Total assets, FY2025
$225k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Richard B & Barbara B Odlin Foundation Co Mike Wise funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthInternationalEducationFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving30$49k23%
FY202425$49k28%
FY202317$25k29%
FY202217$24k35%
FY202122$45k41%
FY202015$25k53%
FY201911$18k36%
FY201811$24k18%
92% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$151kReligion$48kEducation$25kHealth$11kHuman Services$10kFood & Nutrition$7kInternational$5kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Seattle Opera$30,00090%
San Francisco Opera Association$26,50090%
Washington State Historical Society$15,0005n/a
Sacred Heart Catholic Church$6,0002n/a
Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank$6,00060%
Father Vincent Capodanno High School$6,00051%
Tulsa Opera Inc$6,00020%
Thomas Aquinas College$5,50060%
Stewpot Community Services Inc$5,00030%
Commonwealth Catholic Charities$5,00050%
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All grantees of Richard B & Barbara B Odlin Foundation Co Mike Wise by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Seattle Opera$30,00090%
San Francisco Opera Association$26,50090%
Washington State Historical Society$15,0005n/a
Sacred Heart Catholic Church$6,0002n/a
Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank$6,00060%
Father Vincent Capodanno High School$6,00051%
Tulsa Opera Inc$6,00020%
Thomas Aquinas College$5,50060%
Stewpot Community Services Inc$5,00030%
Commonwealth Catholic Charities$5,00050%
Seattles Union Gospel Mission$5,0004n/a
Portland Opera Association Inc$5,00010%
The Harbor Inc$4,00040%
The Summit Academy of Central Virginia Inc$4,00040%
Easter Seals Washington$3,00030%
Cumbre Family Missions Inc$3,0003n/a
World Central Kitchen Inc$3,00020%
Seattle Children's Chorus$3,00030%
The Laboure Society Inc$2,50030%
Mary's Shelter Inc$2,00020%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$2,00020%
Opera America Inc$2,00020%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$2,00010%
Cathedral of the Sacred Heart$2,0001n/a
Samaritan's Purse$1,00010%
Catholic Relief Services$1,0001n/a
South County Community Food Bank$1,0001n/a
St John Bosco Catholic Church$1,0001n/a
Medical Debt Resolution Inc$1,00010%
Easter Seals Inc$1,00010%
Marys Choice Rva$1,0001n/a
St Matthew Catholic Church$1,0001n/a
Mercy Ships International$1,00010%
Mission Aviation Fellowship$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($119k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richard B & Barbara B Odlin Foundation Co Mike Wise supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSeattle Opera: $30,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Opera Association: $26,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFredericksburg Regional Food Bank: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFather Vincent Capodanno High School: $6,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTulsa Opera Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThomas Aquinas College: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetStewpot Community Services Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommonwealth Catholic Charities: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Opera Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Harbor Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Summit Academy of Central Virginia Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEaster Seals Washington: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Chorus: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Laboure Society Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMary's Shelter Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOpera America Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedical Debt Resolution Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEaster Seals Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Verizon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Richard B & Barbara B Odlin Foundation Co Mike Wise

How much does Richard B & Barbara B Odlin Foundation Co Mike Wise give?
Richard B & Barbara B Odlin Foundation Co Mike Wise reported 30 grants totaling $49,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Richard B & Barbara B Odlin Foundation Co Mike Wise fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Religion (17%), Education (9%).
Who are Richard B & Barbara B Odlin Foundation Co Mike Wise's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Seattle Opera ($30k), San Francisco Opera Association ($27k), Washington State Historical Society ($15k).
Does Richard B & Barbara B Odlin Foundation Co Mike Wise fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Richard B & Barbara B Odlin Foundation Co Mike Wise 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 Richard B & Barbara B Odlin Foundation Co Mike Wise?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Verizon Foundation, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Richard B & Barbara B Odlin Foundation Co Mike Wise based?
Richard B & Barbara B Odlin Foundation Co Mike Wise is based in VA.

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 59 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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