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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “odyssey”
Where the money went
Coastal Bend Community FoundationCorpus Christi, TXCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $322,704 · through 2024Largest: $52,938 to ODYSSEY AFTER SCHOOL — after school program
Largest: $86,570 to Odyssey 2020 Academy Inc — expand odysseys postsecondary success programs for students and educators
Largest: $200,000 to UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — to support study abroad opportunities for odyssey scholars, by providing scholarship fund for sawiris scholars who enroll full time in the college
Inatai FoundationSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $1.1M · through 2024Largest: $662,654 to GENDER ODYSSEY ALLIANCE — general operating support
Largest: $5,000 to THE ODYSSEY SCHOOL — general donation
Largest: $27,500 to ODYSSEY INC — general & unrestricted
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $4.3M · through 2021Largest: $2.1M to The University of Chicago — to support the polsky small business financial fundamentals program. in support of its small business growth program planning phase. supporting pritzker school of medicine. contrib…
Unity of Greater New OrleansNew Orleans, LACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $3.2M · through 2024Largest: $865,727 to ODYSSEY HOUSE — to coordinate parterships to reduce, end and prevent homelessness.
Allen Lovelace Moore andCorpus Christi, TX
6 matching grants · $66,300 · through 2024Largest: $15,000 to Youth Odyssey — youth outreach
Largest: $20,000 to LAKEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ODYSSEY BOOSTER CLUB — to provide academic support for students in the odyssey programto provide academic support to students in the odyssey program
Largest: $100,000 to University of Chicago — robert j. zimmer odyssey scholarship fund
Boston FoundationBoston, MACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $80,000 · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to Odyssey House Inc NY — operating support/annual fund
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →