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The Oda Family Charitable

Dale, TX · EIN 33-0784158. Reported 76 grants totalling $152,250 to 35 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$152,250granted, 2021-2024
35organizations funded
62%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,449,721assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Oda Family Charitable did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $2,500; the smallest was $250 and the largest $10,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
13 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
54 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
6 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Mayo ClinicRochester, MN$30,000332024
Judicial WatchWashington, DC$15,000332024
Orange County Buddhist ChurchAnaheim, CA$10,500332024
Heritage FoundationWashington, DC$10,000332024
Epoch Times AssociationNew York, NY$7,500332024
Grassroots Institute of HawaiiDuluth, GA$7,500332024
Leadership InstituteArlington, VA$7,500332024
Jupiter Medical CenterJupiter, FL$7,000332024
Amac FoundationLady Lake, FL$6,000332023
Pacific Legal FoundationSacramento, CA$6,000332024
Project VeritasMamaroneck, NY$5,000112022
Media Research CenterReston, VA$4,000332024
Conservative Partnership InstituteWashington, DC$3,000332023
Faith & Freedom CoalitionDuluth, GA$3,000332023
St Judes Children's Research HospitalMemphis, TN$3,000332024
Von Mises InstituteAuburn, AL$3,000332024
Claremont InstituteClaremont, CA$2,500332023
David Horiwitz Freedom CenterSherman Oaks, CA$2,000222023
David Horowitz Freedom CenterSherman Oaks, CA$2,000112021
Grassroot Institute of HawaiiHonolulu, HI$2,000112021
National Center for Public Policy ResearchWashington, DC$2,000222023
State Policy NetworkArlington, VA$2,000222023
Turning Point USAPhoenix, AZ$2,000222023
Praeger University FoundationSherman Oaks, CA$1,500222023
Alice Lloyd CollegePippa Passes, KY$1,250332023
Boys and Girls Club of Capistrano ValleySan Juan Capistrano, CA$1,000222023
Capital Research CenterWashington, DC$1,000112023
Cato InstituteWashington, DC$1,000112023
Daily Caller News FoundationWashington, DC$1,000112023
National Center for Public Policy ResearWashington, DC$1,000112021
Goldwater InstitutePhoenix, AZ$500112023
Hawaii Humane Society of HonoluluHonolulu, HI$500222023
Khan AcademyMountain View, CA$500112022
Friends of Ashbrook CenterAshland, OH$250112023
The Atlas SocietyAndover, MN$250112023

24 of 35 (69%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 62%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

Plus 17 grants to individuals totalling $34,250 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 37 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Public & Societal Benefit
12 grants
Arts & Culture
7 grants
Civil Rights
5 grants
Education
4 grants
Crime & Legal
3 grants
Human Services
3 grants
Youth Development
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20218$10,500$1,000
202226$59,750$1,000
202330$47,500$1,000
202412$34,500$2,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 22% of this one's giving went to organizations in District of Columbia. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

District of Columbia
$34K
Minnesota
$30K
California
$26K
Virginia
$14K
Florida
$13K
New York
$12K
Georgia
$10K
Tennessee
$3K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund16 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc15 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program15 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc13 shared recipientsDonors Trust Inc13 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust13 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in District of Columbia.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Oda Family Charitable's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 3295 Pettytown Road, Dale, TX, 78616. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 33-0784158 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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