Georgia · Nonprofit
ODYSSEY INC
ODYSSEY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,795,444 to it, the largest being THE GOIZUETA FOUNDATION INC ($425,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $867k
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Odyssey Inc does
Mission
Odyssey provides year-round academic enrichment, college success, and career readiness programs for motivated students in grades 2-12 from historically underserved communities, preparing them to graduate from high school, succeed in college, and thrive in their careers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
ODYSSEY HIGH SCHOOL Served 89 students in rising grades 9-12 during the course of 5 weeks. Odyssey's atmosphere encourages students to enhance their skills both inside and outside the classroom. Odyssey continues the project-based learning model for 9th-11th grades, with a laser focus on college & career preparation. Math, Writing & Public Speaking are core subjects, with electives geared towards individual interests, the arts, evolving fields, & workforce demands to ensure students have transferrable skills. Seniors complete their college application components & embark on a week-long tour to gain exposure to colleges that fit their profile.
$320,003 spentof which $2,250 as grants$5,318 earned by the program34% of program spendingODYSSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL Served 98 students in rising grades 6-8 during the course of 6 weeks. We hire highly qualified and award-winning teachers from across Atlanta who teach an academic curriculum grounded in reading, writing, and math through design thinking and project-based learning. Each grade level's curriculum is founded on a theme; WHICH GOVERNS WHICH TEXTS ARE TAUGHT, FIELD TRIPS TAKEN, AND THE PROJECTS THAT ARE COMPLETED. By providing the summer bridge learning experience for this group of students who would not otherwise have access, Odyssey ensures that students not only avoid a loss of academic skills, but also are able to get a jump ahead on the next school year.
$298,299 spent$4,794 earned by the program32% of program spendingODYSSEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Served 114 students in rising grades 1-5 during the course of 6 weeks.We hire highly qualified and award-winning teachers from across Atlanta who teach an academic curriculum grounded in reading, writing, and math through design thinking and project-based learning. Each grade level's curriculum is founded on a theme; WHICH GOVERNS WHICH TEXTS ARE TAUGHT, FIELD TRIPS TAKEN, AND THE PROJECTS THAT ARE COMPLETED. By providing the summer bridge learning experience for this group of students who would not otherwise have access, Odyssey ensures that students not only avoid a loss of academic skills, but also are able to get a jump ahead on the next school year.
$321,376 spent$5,235 earned by the program34% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $939,678.
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.
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 $1.7M to $2.5M (+44%).
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: 2017 12% · 2020 33% · 2021 4% · 2022 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of ODYSSEY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Likisha Stanley
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $175k → $330k.
9 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 funders by total. 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 INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
32% 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 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 14% · 2019 22% · 2020 55% · 2021 26% · 2022 25% · 2023 15% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
43% of ODYSSEY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
80% of ODYSSEY INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $498k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states 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.
Against its field
ODYSSEY INC is better cushioned than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ODYSSEY INC
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Westminster Schools Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ODYSSEY INC: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ODYSSEY INC?
- ODYSSEY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,795,444 to it, the largest being THE GOIZUETA FOUNDATION INC ($425,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ODYSSEY INC have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $2,795,444 in grants to ODYSSEY INC, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ODYSSEY INC?
- THE GOIZUETA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $425,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ODYSSEY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 68 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing