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Optimist Club of Orlando Charitable Trust at a glance

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Optimist Club of Orlando Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$43kPhilanthropy$36kReligion$28kYouth Development$19kSocial Science$15kRecreation & Sports$14kHuman Services$12kFood & Nutrition$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,408
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Our Backyard Foundation$4,000
St James Catholic Church$4,000
Senior Athletes of Central Florida$4,000
Tunnel to Towers Foundation$4,000
Optimist Club of Orlando$2,408
English Estates Elementary School$400
Episcopal Church of Resurrection$400
Individual grant recipient$400
Central Care Mission$400
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $4k → 11%Our Backyard Foundation: $12k → 11%St James Catholic Church: $12k → 13%OSCEOLA COUNTY SCHOOLS: $3k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FND: $900 → 19%ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $2k → 17%Freedom Alliance: $1k → 16%Our Backyard Foundation: $5k → 11%St James Catholic Church: $6k → 13%OSCEOLA COUNTY SCHOOLS: $3k → 13%Our Backyard Foundation: $4k → 11%St James Catholic Church: $4k → 13%OSCEOLA COUNTY SCHOOLS: $2k → 13%OUR BACKYARD FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%ST JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH: $3k → 13%OSCEOLA COUNTY SCHOOLS: $2k → 13%OUR BACKYARD FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%ST JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH: $3k → 13%BISHOP GRADY VILLAS: $1k → 13%OUR BACKYARD FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%ST JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH: $3k → 13%BISHOP GRADY VILLAS: $900 → 13%Senior Athletes of Central Florida: $10k → 11%ST JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH: $3k → 13%BISHOP GRADY VILLAS: $625 → 13%OUR BACKYARD FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%ST JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH: $2k → 13%Senior Athletes of Central Florida: $4k → 11%ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOLS: $600 → 13%OUR BACKYARD FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%EDGEWOOD CHILDRENS RANCH: $3k → 13%Seminole County Public Schools: $7k → 11%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $4k → 13%SEMINOLE COUNTY SCHOOLS: $3k → 11%Edgewood Childrens Ranch: $2k → 13%SEMINOLE COUNTY SCHOOLS: $1k → 11%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $2k → 13%English Estate Elementary School: $3k → 11%EDGEWOOD CHILDRENS RANCH: $2k → 13%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $800 → 13%EDGEWOOD CHILDRENS RANCH: $1k → 13%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $500 → 13%EDGEWOOD CHILDRENS RANCH: $1k → 13%EDGEWOOD CHILDRENS RANCH: $1k → 13%Edgewood Childrens Ranch: $1k → 13%Orlando Optimist Club: $13k → 13%Church of the Messiah Pre-School: $12k → 13%Optimist Club of Orlando: $2k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$137k · 11 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
9

Total granted

$137k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+74%

Still filing today

36%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalRecreation & SportsEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • EC
    EDGEWOOD CHILDREN'S RANCH INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +27%
  • SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $8k · revenue +49%
  • BG
    BISHOP GRADY VILLAS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • OO
    Orlando Optimist Club
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
  • CO
    Church of the Messiah Pre-School
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
  • SC
    Seminole County Public Schools
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OUR BACKYARD FOUNDATION INC: $35,800 · OtherOUR BACKYARD FOUNDATION INCSt James Catholic Church: $34,300 · OtherSt James Catholic ChurchOptimist Club of Orlando: $14,908 · OtherOptimist Club of OrlandoOrlando Optimist Club: $12,500 · OtherOrlando Optimist ClubChurch of the Messiah Pre-School: $11,750 · OtherChurch of the Messiah Pre-SchoolOSCEOLA COUNTY SCHOOLS: $11,050 · OtherOSCEOLA COUNTY SCHOOLSSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $8,400 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INCSeminole County Public Schools: $7,000 · Other+12 more: $14,175 · Other+12 moreSENIOR ATHLETES OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $14,000 · Recreation & SportsEDGEWOOD CHILDREN'S RANCH INC: $10,650 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,500 · HealthSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $4,000 · EducationFREEDOM ALLIANCE: $1,000 · International
Other$149,883Recreation & Sports$14,000Health$12,150Education$4,000International$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSENIOR ATHLETES OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $14,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetEDGEWOOD CHILDREN'S RANCH INC: $10,650 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $8,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBISHOP GRADY VILLAS INC: $2,725 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SENIOR ATHLETES OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds EDGEWOOD CHILDREN'S RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BISHOP GRADY VILLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Optimist Club of Orlando Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Optimist Club of Orlando Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Bishop Grady Villas Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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 25 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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