Optimist International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 366089763
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- East Moline, IL, USA
- Rating
- 41
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $119,841
- Expenses
- $107,388
- Assets
- $52,402
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brian Smith (President)
People named in this filing
- Brian Smith (President)
- Thomas G Reagan (Secretary)
- Sandra J Schmidt (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To develop optimism as a philosophy of life to promote an active interest in good government and civic affairs to inspire respect for law to promote patriotism and work for international accord and friendship among all people and to aid and encourage the development of youth.
What it reported doing in 2025
Project NOW Head Start 499 27th Street East Moline IL 61244: grant provided to purchase coats shoes hats mittens and clothing for under-privileged preschool students at all Head Start Locations in the Illinois Quad Cities 135 children servied
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 80% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 1
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0.5%; rating input score 1
- Program expense ratio: 0.6%; rating input score 1
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.4%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.9% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0.5% of revenue deployed · 0.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $612 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 1/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.