Maine · Nonprofit
Children's Odyssey
Children's Odyssey (Maine) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $506,033 to it, the largest being United Way Inc d/b/a United Way of Greater Portland ($375,060). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Children's Odyssey runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,749 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,749 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organizationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Edward H Daveis Benevolent Fundshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Incshared funderslocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 17% · 2022 12% · 2023 3% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of Children's Odyssey’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $11k → $15k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Children's Odyssey’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Children's Odyssey leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Children's Odyssey.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 92% · 2022 94% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Children's Odyssey's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $96k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 319 organizations that share them.
- Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organizationshared funderslocalportfolio matchME · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 58 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Edward H Daveis Benevolent Fundshared funderslocalportfolio matchME · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 29 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Incshared funderslocalME · backs 68 organizations that share your funders · funds 39 organizations near you
- Coastal Enterprises Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sumner Scholarship Endowment Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scholar Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cara Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Think Smallportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Low Income Investment Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Children's Financeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Episcopal Children's Services Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coulombe Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Children's Odyssey
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Children's Odyssey: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Children's Odyssey?
- Children's Odyssey (Maine) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $506,033 to it, the largest being United Way Inc d/b/a United Way of Greater Portland ($375,060). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Children's Odyssey have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $506,033 in grants to Children's Odyssey, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Children's Odyssey?
- United Way Inc d/b/a United Way of Greater Portland is the largest funder on record, with $375,060 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Children's Odyssey find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing