California · Nonprofit
JUNIOR OPTIMIST BASEBALL LEAGUE
JUNIOR OPTIMIST BASEBALL LEAGUE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $66 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($66). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $34k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $66
- Net assets
- $19k
What Junior Optimist Baseball League does
Mission
Provide baseball/softball program for youth. Activities include regular season and post season play. All participants receive uniforms, awards and use of playing and practice fields and equipment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
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$17,229 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $17,229.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $120k to $83k (−31%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
21% of JUNIOR OPTIMIST BASEBALL LEAGUE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $22 → $23.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of JUNIOR OPTIMIST BASEBALL LEAGUE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of JUNIOR OPTIMIST BASEBALL LEAGUE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
JUNIOR OPTIMIST BASEBALL LEAGUE's revenue fell 80% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like JUNIOR OPTIMIST BASEBALL LEAGUE
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JUNIOR OPTIMIST BASEBALL LEAGUE?
- JUNIOR OPTIMIST BASEBALL LEAGUE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $66 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($66). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JUNIOR OPTIMIST BASEBALL LEAGUE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $66 in grants to JUNIOR OPTIMIST BASEBALL LEAGUE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUNIOR OPTIMIST BASEBALL LEAGUE?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $66 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUNIOR OPTIMIST BASEBALL LEAGUE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing