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Ohio · Public charity

Defiance Optimist Club Inc

Supporting community programs and youth services through the proceeds of fundraising events conducted by the organization.

$58k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2025
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50% of Defiance Optimist Club Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Defiance Area Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Itemized, FY2025
$30k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$79k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2025 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boy Scouts 449 Berry Boy Scout Reservation Inc$15,00017%

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About Defiance Optimist Club Inc

How much does Defiance Optimist Club Inc give?
Defiance Optimist Club Inc reported 2 itemized grants totaling $30,000, out of $57,809 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Defiance Optimist Club Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2025 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (50%), Youth Development (50%).
Who are Defiance Optimist Club Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2025 to FY2025: Boy Scouts 449 Berry Boy Scout Reservation Inc ($15k).
Where is Defiance Optimist Club Inc based?
Defiance Optimist Club Inc is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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