· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $8,000 |
| SEATTLE OPERA | $3,000 |
| TULSA OPERA | $3,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO OPERA | $3,000 |
| WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| TAVON LEARNING CENTER | $2,000 |
| STEW POT COMMUNITY SERVICES | $2,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $2,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE FOR MILITARY SERVICES U | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $1,000 |
| THE HARBOR | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SACRED HEART CHURCH | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +35% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FRFREDERICKSBURG REGIONAL FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +68%
- FVFATHER VINCENT CAPODANNO HIGH SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +124%
TULSA OPERA INC2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- POPORTLAND OPERA ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -53%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +99%- COCATHEDRAL OF THE SACRED HEARTone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
The florentine opera company is driven to produce the full range of operatic works reflecting the highest musical and theatrical standards, and to support community and education programs that foster the current and next generation of…
To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
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…
Choral Music Performances: California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs…
New york city opera was famously dubbed "the people's opera" by mayor fiorello laguardia at its founding in 1943. more than 80 years later, city opera continues its historic mission to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically…
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.
Sarasota Opera produces impassioned opera performances true to the vision of the composer, to entertain, enrich, educate, and inspire a life-long love of opera in our diverse and growing communities.
To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…
Musical performances for the public.
To be philadelphia's professional producer of quality grand opera, producing a diverse range of repertoire featuring international artists alongside rising young singers, and to produce educational programs which nurture the future and…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 59 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 SEATTLE OPERA ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FREDERICKSBURG REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FATHER VINCENT CAPODANNO HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TULSA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds STEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Commonwealth Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT ACADEMY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Washington ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Chorus ↗
- Who funds THE LABOURE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Mary's Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard B & Barbara B Odlin Foundation Co Mike Wise funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard B & Barbara B Odlin Foundation Co Mike Wise. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Harbor Inc: 66% of income from government
- Portland Opera Association Inc: 2% of income from government
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