Minnesota · Public charity
Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc
By providing hope and positive vision, optimists bring out the best in kids 18 and under.
- $225k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $150k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $31,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $78k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $118k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $114k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $119k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $85k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $67k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $79k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $48k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $47k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud | $80,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Central Mn Council of Boy Scouts of America | $74,820 | 7 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Minnesota | $65,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Diocese of St Cloud | $64,700 | 7 | n/a |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mn | $60,240 | 6 | 1% |
| Junior Achievement North | $57,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Anna Marie's Alliance | $56,000 | 6 | 0% |
| United Way of Central Minnesota | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Cloud Area Family YMCA | $27,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Connectability of Mn Inc | $27,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud | $80,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Central Mn Council of Boy Scouts of America | $74,820 | 7 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Minnesota | $65,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Diocese of St Cloud | $64,700 | 7 | n/a |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mn | $60,240 | 6 | 1% |
| Junior Achievement North | $57,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Anna Marie's Alliance | $56,000 | 6 | 0% |
| United Way of Central Minnesota | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Cloud Area Family YMCA | $27,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Connectability of Mn Inc | $27,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Avon Hills Folk School | $20,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Elevate Pregnancy and Family Resource Center | $17,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Power to Save a Life Inc Advocates for Health | $16,400 | 2 | 8% |
| Foley Outback Group | $12,745 | 2 | n/a |
| Kids Fighting Hunger | $10,000 | 1 | 29% |
| Great River Childrens Museum | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| St Cloud Rotary Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Minnesota Women of Today | $5,850 | 1 | n/a |
| Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls | $5,605 | 1 | n/a |
| United States Catholic Conference | $5,100 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Communitygiving · Morgan Family Foundation · Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation · Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc · United Way of Central Minnesota · Otto Bremer Trust · Initiative Foundation · Central Minnesota Arts Board · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Optimist Club of St Cloud · Cross Works Foundation · Benton Telecommunications Foundation
How this is measured
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About Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc
- How much does Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc give?
- Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc reported 13 itemized grants totaling $149,680, out of $224,945 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (53%), Philanthropy (15%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud ($80k), Central Mn Council of Boy Scouts of America ($75k), Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Minnesota ($65k).
- Does Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communitygiving, Morgan Family Foundation, Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation.
- Where is Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc based?
- Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc is based in MN.
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