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The Daniel G and Wanda K O'Dell Family Foundation at a glance

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The Daniel G and Wanda K O'Dell Family 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.

$509k
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Education$1.5MInternational$434kHousing & Shelter$415kReligion$309kHuman Services$215kHealth$137kFood & Nutrition$107kArts & Culture$78kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k41 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $134k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
$2,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE$100,000
WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE$75,000
WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE$50,000
HILLCREST MINISTRIES$50,000
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC$48,000
THE SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH OF LIBERTY MISSOURI$42,000
OAKHILL DAY SCHOOL$14,000
MAYO CLINIC$10,000
WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE$10,000
CATO INSTITUTE$10,000
LIBERTY COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS TREE$5,500
FOOD FOR HOPE$5,000
PUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC$5,000
LIBERTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION$5,000
EMERGING BUILDERS INC$5,000
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 (FY17–24, $119k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PRINT AND GRAPHICS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%MONKEY TAIL RANCH: $3k → 7%ON ANGELS WINGS: $250 → 15%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $3k → 14%FOOTHILLS CARING CORPS INC: $500 → 11%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $3k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $3k → 14%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $2k → 8%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $2k → 8%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $2k → 8%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $2k → 8%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $2k → 8%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $2k → 8%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $2k → 8%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $2k → 8%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $2k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $2k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $2k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $2k → 15%PEOPLE OF ALL COLORS SUCCEED ORGANIZATION: $1k → 8%PEOPLE OF ALL COLORS SUCCEED ORGANIZATION: $1k → 8%PEOPLE OF ALL COLORS SUCCEED ORGANIZATION: $1k → 8%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $2k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $2k → 15%PEOPLE OF ALL COLORS SUCCEED ORGANIZATION: $1k → 8%LIFE UNLIMITED INC: $2k → 8%LIFE UNLIMITED INC: $2k → 8%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $2k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $2k → 15%INASMUCH MINISTRY: $5k → 8%INASMUCH MINISTRY: $5k → 8%INASMUCH MINISTRY: $5k → 8%INASMUCH MINISTRY: $5k → 8%INASMUCH MINISTRY: $5k → 8%RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $3k → 15%INASMUCH MINISTRY: $5k → 8%INASMUCH MINISTRY: $5k → 8%INASMUCH MINISTRY: $5k → 8%RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $3k → 15%GIRLS ON THE RUN SERVING GREATER KANSAS CITY MO: $1k → 15%LIFE UNLIMITED INC: $2k → 8%MOTHERS REFUGE: $5k → 15%LIFE UNLIMITED INC: $2k → 8%LIFE UNLIMITED INC: $2k → 8%LIFE UNLIMITED INC: $2k → 8%LIFE UNLIMITED INC: $2k → 8%LIFE UNLIMITED INC: $2k → 8%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

MN
IL
NY
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
DC
GA
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 51 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

51 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
26

Total granted

$3.1M
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+36%

Still filing today

76%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • HM
    HILLCREST MINISTRIES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +48%
  • OB
    OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $392k · revenue +23%
  • LS
    LIBERTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • CL
    CONSOLIDATED LIBRARY DISTRICT NO 3 - MID-CONTINENT
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY POLICE OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +40%
  • PG
    Print & Graphics Scholarship Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +82%
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
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
2
Freedom House Ministries

House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…

Education
3
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
4
Nurture Kc

Nurture kc is a community collaboration dedicated to reducting infant mortality and improving family health. we work together to change policy for broad impact, transform systems to improve health outcomes at a local level, and provide…

Health
5
Hope Faith Ministries Inc

Hope Faith Ministries Inc. works to alleviate homelessness and poverty in the Kansas City area by providing basic necessities and assistance while also providing critical programs to help empower individ

Human Services
6
Welcome House Inc

The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…

Health
7
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

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8
Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas

To provide dynamic, culturally-sensitive, high quality behavioral healthcare to residents of chase, coffey, greenwood, lyon, morris, osage and wabaunsee counties in the most effective, caring and efficient manner.

Health
9
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
10
Kc Common Good Inc

Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.

Employment
11
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
12
Jefferson Regional Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity of Kansas City; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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

69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 86 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/69
Grantees still filing
52/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

William Jewell College: $1,304,000 · EducationWilliam Jewell CollegeOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $392,000 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC+5 more: $12,100 · EducationTHE SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH OF LIBERTY MISSOURI: $285,083 · OtherTHE SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH OF …LIBERTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $58,500 · OtherLIBERTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUND…OAKHILL DAY SCHOOL: $52,975 · OtherOAKHILL DAY SCHOOLDRUMM CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $49,500 · OtherDRUMM CENTER FOR CHILDREN INCMAYO CLINIC: $30,000 · Other+38 more: $372,050 · Other+38 moreHILLCREST MINISTRIES INC: $400,000 · ReligionHILLCREST MINI…HEARTSTRONG INC: $25,500 · ReligionHEARTSTRONG IN…+1 more: $250 · ReligionIN AS MUCH MINISTRY: $40,000 · Human ServicesSYNERGY SERVICES INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesLIFE UNLIMITED INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $16,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $7,500 · Human ServicesPrint & Graphics Scholarship Foundation: $5,000 · Human ServicesMothers Refuge: $5,000 · Human ServicesRECONCILIATION SERVICES: $5,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE OF ALL COLORS SUCCEED ORGANIZATION: $4,000 · Human Services+4 more: $4,750 · Human ServicesMAYO CLINIC: $51,000 · HealthAmethyst Place Inc: $10,500 · HealthLiberty Womens Clinic: $5,500 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $4,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,000 · Health+3 more: $3,000 · HealthPUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCORBIN THEATRE COMPANY: $8,000 · Arts & CultureLIBERTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $16,424 · PhilanthropyLIBERTY COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS TREE: $10,500 · PhilanthropyNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $5,000 · PhilanthropyARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Education$1,708,100Other$848,108Religion$425,750Human Services$119,250Health$77,000Arts & Culture$65,500Philanthropy$46,924

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 budgetWilliam Jewell College: $1,304,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetHILLCREST MINISTRIES INC: $400,000 over 8y, 8.5% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $392,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetLIBERTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $58,500 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetOAKHILL DAY SCHOOL: $52,975 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $51,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDRUMM CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $49,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetIN AS MUCH MINISTRY: $40,000 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetHEARTSTRONG INC: $25,500 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetRebuilding Together Kansas City Inc: $25,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE: $23,500 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetLIBERTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION: $22,200 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetPOLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY: $22,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY: $21,100 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetISAACS DREAM INC: $18,800 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetFEED NORTHLAND KIDS INC: $18,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetLITERACY KANSAS CITY: $17,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $16,500 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetLIBERTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $16,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $16,424 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSYNERGY SERVICES INC: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE UNLIMITED INC: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS TREE: $10,500 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc: $10,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY POLICE OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORBIN THEATRE COMPANY: $8,000 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $7,500 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetMIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCLAY COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN LEGACY: $7,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetEMERGING BUILDERS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLiberty Womens Clinic: $5,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPrint & Graphics Scholarship Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFOOD FOR HOPE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMothers Refuge: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRECONCILIATION SERVICES: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds William Jewell College ↗
  • Who funds HILLCREST MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OAKHILL DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds DRUMM CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC ↗
  • Who funds IN AS MUCH MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds HEARTSTRONG INC ↗
  • Who funds Rebuilding Together Kansas City Inc ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds POLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY ↗
  • Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY ↗
  • Who funds ISAACS DREAM INC ↗
  • Who funds FEED NORTHLAND KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY KANSAS CITY ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds SYNERGY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFE UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONES OF CARE ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS TREE ↗
  • Who funds Amethyst Place Inc ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY POLICE OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
  • Who funds CORBIN THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗

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.

Greater Kansas City C…United Way of Greater…Commerce Bancshares F…Health Forward Founda…Ewing Marion Kauffman…The Kansas City Royal…The Francis Family Fo…Servant FoundationHarry Arnote Charitab…Bluescope Foundation …Liberty Hospital Foun…Harvest Ball Society
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO51.1× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · Servant Foundation · Harry Arnote Charitable Foundation · Bluescope Foundation North America · Liberty Hospital Foundation · Harvest Ball Society

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 The Daniel G and Wanda K O'Dell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Daniel G and Wanda K O'Dell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Associated Baptist Press Inc Attn Lindsay Bergstrom: 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

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 86 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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