Friend of the Youth Foundation Optimist Club of St Louis

Analysis

Friend of the Youth Foundation Optimist Club of St Louis is a registered charity in United States, based in Ballwin, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1953, 73 years ago. Its declared purposes cover youth development, which this site groups under children and youth development. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending September 2023, Friend of the Youth Foundation Optimist Club of St Louis reported income of $107k and spending of $167k, spending 156% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income fell from $165k to $107k (-35%), an average of -10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income rose by 69%. Over the whole period it spent 56% of the income it received.

Among 14,332 United States charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, Friend of the Youth Foundation Optimist Club of St Louis sits at the 44th percentile: it is larger than about 44% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile, and in the 36th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Moulton Junior Livestock Association ($107k), Mint Artists Guild ($107k) and Glenn County Junior Livestock Auction Inc ($107k).

At year end it held assets of $3.1m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $3.1m.