In 2022, the Vernon L. Odom Fund awarded grants totaling $9,300 to 10 nonprofit organizations:
- Akron Civic Theatre, to support four free public performances of the Millennial Theatre Project’s Say It Loud, $500
- Akron Inner City Soccer Club, to support an after-school soccer program for low-income families in Akron, $1,000
- Akron Soul Train, for an artist-in-residence program featuring poet and performer Latecia Delores Wilson, $1,000
- Fathers and Sons of Northeast Ohio, to fund fatherhood education programs that provide low-income, single fathers with the tools needed to become active, positive role models in their children's lives, $1,000
- Good Samaritan Hunger Center, to alleviate food insecurity in the North Hill community, $900
- Law and Leadership Institute, to support a tuition-free, four-year college preparatory program for promising high school students who are at risk of not graduating high school or attending college, $1,000
- Limitless Ambition, to equip parents from low-income families with the tools needed to empower teens to thrive, $1,000
- South Street Ministries, to assist and empower Black women to overcome obstacles to their re-entry in the community, $900
- University of Akron Foundation, to support workshops through the National Society of Black Engineers that introduce Black middle school students to careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, $1,000
- Williams Challenge, to strengthen families by providing a six-week fatherhood mentoring program at no cost to approximately 90 low-income fathers, $1,000