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The Optimist Foundation of Greater Goulds Florida Inc

The Optimist Foundation of Greater Goulds Florida Inc (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,833 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($95,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$272k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$165k
Net assets
$287k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 47%
01What it does

What The Optimist Foundation of Greater Goulds Florida Inc does

Mission

The mission of The Optimist Foundation of Greater Goulds Florida Incorporated is to provide affordable educational cultural and recreational programs to economically disadvantaged families youth and children in Goulds and the surrounding areas. The purpose is to further certain charitable and educational purposes of The Greater Goulds Optimist Club.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide affordable educational cultural and recreational programs to economically disadvantaged families youth and children in Goulds and the surrounding areas

    $272,366 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $272,366.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($118k) Expenses 100 ($113k) Net assets 100 ($91k)2023 Revenue 203 ($238k) Expenses 194 ($220k) Net assets 165 ($150k)2024 Revenue 277 ($326k) Expenses 187 ($212k) Net assets 326 ($297k)2025 Revenue 231 ($272k) Expenses 248 ($281k) Net assets 315 ($287k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (231)Expenses (248)Net assets (315)Peer revenue range

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 $185k to $300k (+62%).

$92k
$185k
$300k
$290k
2022202320242025
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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 100% · 2024 31% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of The Optimist Foundation of Greater Goulds Florida Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’22
$18k
’23
$115k
’24
−$9k
’25
12
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Enid Washington Demps

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202320242025
Listed771
Joined·+1·
No longer listed·1·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $55k → $60k.

Funder
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
2
3

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 Foundation of Greater Goulds Florida 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

The Optimist Foundation of Greater Goulds Florida Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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

100% 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 The Optimist Foundation of Greater Goulds Florida Inc.

58%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 50% — 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

58% of The Optimist Foundation of Greater Goulds Florida Inc'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. Of the $69k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Florida funders.

FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $96k 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

Against its field

The Optimist Foundation of Greater Goulds Florida Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve11.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)32% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

UT

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Optimist Foundation of Greater Goulds Florida Inc?
The Optimist Foundation of Greater Goulds Florida Inc (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,833 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($95,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does The Optimist Foundation of Greater Goulds Florida Inc have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $164,833 in grants to The Optimist Foundation of Greater Goulds Florida Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Optimist Foundation of Greater Goulds Florida Inc?
THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $95,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Optimist Foundation of Greater Goulds Florida Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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