New Jersey · Nonprofit
OPTIMIST CLUB OF HOWELL INC
OPTIMIST CLUB OF HOWELL INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,000 to it, the largest being OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $78k
What Optimist Club of Howell Inc does
Mission
Promote Optimism as a philosophy of life and provide educational resources to aid and encourage the development of youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Scholarships granted to local high school students paid directly to colleges and universities
$7,000 spent42% of program spendingScholarship program that awarded computers to local middle school students who could not afford to purchase their own computers
$3,984 spent24% of program spendingAssistance with local boy scout troop eagle projects
$380 spent2% of program spendingBreakfast with Santa for local youth
$2,213 spent13% of program spendingLocal Food Pantry Donation
$251 spent1% of program spendingOratorical and essay contest for local students
$636 spent4% of program spendingWreaths Across America Donation
$200 spent1% of program spendingLittle League Donations
$1,375 spent8% of program spendingLocal High School Support Donations
$200 spent1% of program spendingFishing Derby for Local Youth
$553 spent3% of program spending
The 10 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $16,792.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $50k to $63k (+26%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $500 → $6k.
From the IRS filings of OPTIMIST CLUB OF HOWELL INC’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.
How concentrated its funding is
OPTIMIST CLUB OF HOWELL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund OPTIMIST CLUB OF HOWELL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 83% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
OPTIMIST CLUB OF HOWELL INC draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like OPTIMIST CLUB OF HOWELL INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPTIMIST CLUB OF HOWELL INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OPTIMIST CLUB OF HOWELL INC?
- OPTIMIST CLUB OF HOWELL INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,000 to it, the largest being OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPTIMIST CLUB OF HOWELL INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $7,000 in grants to OPTIMIST CLUB OF HOWELL INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPTIMIST CLUB OF HOWELL INC?
- OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPTIMIST CLUB OF HOWELL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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