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The Optimist Club of Buena Vista

The Optimist Club of Buena Vista (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,050 to it, the largest being CHAFFEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($9,050). 0 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
$64k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$9k
Net assets
$62k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What The Optimist Club of Buena Vista does

Mission

Youth Services

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Scholarships for Buena Vista High School graduating seniors to further their education at the college of their choice. Four scholarships were awarded.

    $22,000 spent
    50% of program spending

  2. Back Pack Program. Weekend food provided to kids in low income families (approx 50 kids)

    $2,250 spent
    5% of program spending

  3. Buena Vista HS/MS Band (approx 21 students)

    $2,000 spent
    5% of program spending

  4. Alpine Orchestra - opportunity to support the growth of approximately 5 student musicians.

    $500 spent
    1% of program spending

  5. Avery Parsons Reading A-Z (reading program for approx 75 students)

    $250 spent
    1% of program spending

  6. BV High School Booster Club - support for approx 100 athletes

    $500 spent
    1% of program spending

  7. BV Cares - support for students and families in need/crisis - approx 10 families

    $300 spent
    1% of program spending

  8. BV High School iFLY STEM Field Trip - support for STEM student field trip - approx 10 kids

    $540 spent
    1% of program spending

  9. BV High School Shops - support for the MS/HS wood and metal shop program - approx 100 kids

    $1,000 spent
    2% of program spending

  10. 6th Grade Conservation Camp Breakfast - provided breakfast for 6th graders during their Spring outdoor learning field trip - approx 70 kids

    $190 spent
    0% of program spending

  11. Hub Livestock Club (4H Camp) - helps to offset camp costs for approx 5 kids

    $500 spent
    1% of program spending

  12. BV Middle School Ice Fishing - helps to provide food and prizes for approx 45 kids

    $250 spent
    1% of program spending

  13. Youth Appreciation Week - breakfast, awards, and public recognition for outstanding youth in the community - approx 40 kids

    $1,052 spent
    2% of program spending

  14. Youth Writing Contest - support for awards - approx 75 kids

    $500 spent
    1% of program spending

  15. Bike 2 School Pancake Breakfast - served breakfast to approx 100 students/parents

    $103 spent
    0% of program spending

  16. BV High School National Art Honor Society - approx 30 kids

    $350 spent
    1% of program spending

  17. High Country Fine Arts Association - helped approx 125 students to experience fine arts in Chaffee County

    $1,300 spent
    3% of program spending

  18. BV Middle School Makerspace Club - provided misc supplies for approx 70 students

    $200 spent
    0% of program spending

  19. Salida Circus - provided camp scholarships for approx 25 students

    $2,000 spent
    5% of program spending

  20. Buena Vista High School After Prom Party

    $300 spent
    1% of program spending

  21. Avery Parsons Elementary School - New Instruments (approx 420 students)

    $650 spent
    1% of program spending

  22. Buena Vista High School Art Program (approx 25 students)

    $350 spent
    1% of program spending

  23. Buena Vista High School Games Donation (approx 280 students)

    $500 spent
    1% of program spending

  24. Buena Vista High School Retail Cart Repairs/Improvements (approx 100 kids)

    $200 spent
    0% of program spending

  25. Chaffee County High School Rafting Trip (approx 15 kids)

    $1,000 spent
    2% of program spending

  26. Destination Imagination Global Finals Trip (approx 5 kids)

    $1,500 spent
    3% of program spending

  27. Darren Patterson Christian Academy Middle School Trip (approx 25 kids)

    $2,000 spent
    5% of program spending

  28. Buena Vista Middle School Positive Behavior Intervention Rewards (approx 220 students)

    $300 spent
    1% of program spending

  29. Toys for Tykes (approx 150 kids)

    $500 spent
    1% of program spending

  30. Misc Projects (Cystic Fibrosis, Civics Bee)

    $1,150 spent
    3% of program spending

The 30 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $44,235.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($36k) Expenses 100 ($40k) Net assets 100 ($30k)2024 Revenue 129 ($46k) Expenses 73 ($30k) Net assets 153 ($46k)2025 Revenue 179 ($64k) Expenses 119 ($48k) Net assets 205 ($62k)
202320242025
Revenue (179)Expenses (119)Net assets (205)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $30k to $46k (+53%).

$30k
$46k
$62k
202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

−$4k
’23
$17k
’24
$16k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

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 The Optimist Club of Buena Vista’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 The Optimist Club of Buena Vista'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. $9k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like The Optimist Club of Buena Vista

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 Colorado

OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL-Denver Monaco South CO79%El Paso County 4-H Foundation76%Kiwanis Club of Fort Collins - Eyeopeners Foundation76%Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks of the USA75%Poudre Booster Club75%Coal Ridge High School Boosters Club Inc74%Reaching Out to Community and Kids ROCK74%Pueblo Kiwanis Club Foundation Inc74%

Nationally

Btc Area Youth Benefit Corp80%OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL-Denver Monaco South CO79%Rio Vista High School Booster Club78%Optimist Club of Howell Inc78%Blue Valley Southwest High School PTO77%Optimist Club of Fredericksburg77%Optimist Club of Menomonee Falls Inc77%Optimist Club of Arlington TX77%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Optimist Club of Buena Vista?
The Optimist Club of Buena Vista (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,050 to it, the largest being CHAFFEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($9,050). 0 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 The Optimist Club of Buena Vista have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $9,050 in grants to The Optimist Club of Buena Vista.
Who is the largest funder of The Optimist Club of Buena Vista?
CHAFFEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Optimist Club of Buena Vista find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2023–2025), 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