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Odyssey Family Executive Center of South Norwalk

Odyssey Family Executive Center of South Norwalk (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,288 to it, the largest being Suzanne McGraw Foundation Inc ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$621k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$155k
Net assets
$114k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Odyssey Family Executive Center of South Norwalk does

Mission

Our mission is to work in partnership with families, community organizations, and industry leaders to provide access to information, resources and career pathways that will position families to improve outcomes for their children and themselves.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Home Visiting Programs - This is a home visiting grant program that provides parents with weekly support to strengthen parent-child interactions, bonding, child development, community resources and family goal planning. The grant is funded through the CT Office of Early Childhood with payments received through Family & Childrens Agency

    $26,365 spent$216,869 earned by the program
    66% of program spending
  2. CFCI - Career and Family Coaching Institute. This is a career pathway program that in 2021, provided mentorship and training to parents with interest in entering the field of early childhood education.

    $11,067 spent$109,834 earned by the program
    28% of program spending
  3. The Parent Ally Program is designed to foster strong, trusting relationships between families and trained staff who offer peer support, guidance and advocacy. Through this program, families receive individualized. strengths-based support to help navigate lifes challenges, access critical community resources, and build confidence in their parenting.At the FEC, Pareent Allies play a vital role in promoting family stability, increasing engagement, and supporting long-term positive outcomes.

    $2,146 spent
    5% of program spending
  4. Share Our Strength is a nationally recognized initiative focused on ending childhood hunger by connecting families to reliable food resources and nutrition education. At the FEC, this progam enhances our ability to support families by providing access to food and assistance opportunites, educational materials, and referrels to local food pantries and community-based services. It helps ensure families have consistent access to nutritious meals while increasing awareness of available supports that contribute to overall family well-being.

    $200 spent$258 earned by the program
    1% of program spending
  5. Ritter Family Foundation: The Ritter Family Foundation believes every child has the right to a quality education and social, emotional, and physical learning, regardless of the zip code in which he or she is born. To that end, we invest in a partner with organizations that work to improve the opportunity, access, and quality of services for children and families in under-resourced communities.

    $125,000 earned by the program
  6. The Odyssey Early Childhood Registered Apprentice Program is a comprehensive workforce development intiative designed to train, support, and cultivate future early childhood educators. This program provides participants with a paid, hands-on learning experience while they work toward earning their Child Development Associate (CDA) credential. Through a structured combination of classroom instruction and on-the-job training particpants gain the knowledge and practical skills to succeed in early childhood education settings. The program expands access to high-quality training by offering an affordable and supporting career pathway, particularly for individuals who may face barriers to traditional education. Additionally, the program emphasizes professional growth through personalized mentorship, fully funded coursework, and guided support in completing CDA requirements, including portfolio development and on-site observations.

    $15,000 earned by the program

The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $39,778.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($119k) Expenses 100 ($111k) Net assets 100 ($47k)2021 Revenue 365 ($432k) Expenses 175 ($195k) Net assets 601 ($285k)2022 Revenue 390 ($462k) Expenses 461 ($513k) Net assets 494 ($234k)2023 Revenue 511 ($605k) Expenses 546 ($607k) Net assets 492 ($233k)2024 Revenue 434 ($514k) Expenses 547 ($608k) Net assets 293 ($139k)2025 Revenue 524 ($621k) Expenses 580 ($644k) Net assets 240 ($114k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (524)Expenses (580)Net assets (240)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $47k to $285k (+501%).

$47k
$285k
$234k
$232k
$213k
$189k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Odyssey Family Executive Center of South Norwalk’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (54% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,338 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$7k
’20
$238k
’21
−$51k
’22
−$1k
’23
−$94k
’24
−$23k
’25
3.5
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

20212022202320242025
Listed55555
Joined·+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25k → $50k.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
Share Our Strengthunclassified
$50k
funders
1
1
1
1
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Odyssey Family Executive Center of South Norwalk’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

Odyssey Family Executive Center of South Norwalk leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

36% 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 Odyssey Family Executive Center of South Norwalk.

64%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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

67% of Odyssey Family Executive Center of South Norwalk's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

CT
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Odyssey Family Executive Center of South Norwalk has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,448 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve3.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)39% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,448 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding Odyssey Family Executive Center of South Norwalk receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.

State$60k
22
23
Top programs
  • Pass thru Grant Non-State$60k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Odyssey Family Executive Center of South Norwalk

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Connecticut

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

6% of spending goes to programs.

Program 6%Management 94%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
60%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

27%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Odyssey Family Executive Center of South Norwalk?
Odyssey Family Executive Center of South Norwalk (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,288 to it, the largest being Suzanne McGraw Foundation Inc ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Odyssey Family Executive Center of South Norwalk have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $155,288 in grants to Odyssey Family Executive Center of South Norwalk, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Odyssey Family Executive Center of South Norwalk?
Suzanne McGraw Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Odyssey Family Executive Center of South Norwalk find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing