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OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL

EIN 41-1622193 SAUK RAPIDS, MN

Largest nonprofits in Minnesota

Revenue 2024
$228,110
Expenses 2024
$230,145

Program services were 97.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Classification
3000
Street
PO BOX 734

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Group exemption

A subordinate covered by the group exemption of OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL (EIN 43-0443279). matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

BY PROVIDING HOPE AND POSITIVE VISION, OPTIMISTS BRING OUT THE BEST IN KIDS 18 AND UNDER.

  • OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL IS AN ORGANIZATION THAT VALUES ALL CHILDREN AND HELPS THEM DEVELOP TO THEIR FULL POTENTIAL.

    Expenses $224,945 · Grants $224,945 · Revenue $4,440

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Eric Schlangen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Wade Bastian

    PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $1,500
    From this org
    $1,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kent Schmitz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mary Krippner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sandy Nadeau

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Wendy Haus

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paul Ankenman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carrie Abfalter

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jackie Ankenman

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Aaron Hammer

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $228,110
    Expenses
    $230,145
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $224,945
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $210,795
    Expenses
    $206,251
    Contributions
    $125
    Grants paid
    $200,551
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $187,490
    Expenses
    $175,681
    Contributions
    $135
    Grants paid
    $170,113

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $169,753
    Expenses
    $180,975
    Assets (EOY)
    $64,280

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $138,613
    Expenses
    $110,818
    Assets (EOY)
    $75,000

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $125,849
    Expenses
    $128,954
    Assets (EOY)
    $46,172

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $135,090
    Expenses
    $139,191
    Assets (EOY)
    $53,452

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $127,421
    Expenses
    $120,786
    Assets (EOY)
    $54,192

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $73,865
    Expenses
    $73,751
    Assets (EOY)
    $54,723

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $72,897
    Expenses
    $66,670
    Assets (EOY)
    $54,202

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $74,600
    Expenses
    $58,267
    Assets (EOY)
    $43,695

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $29,718
    Expenses
    $28,665
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,258

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $22,410
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,743

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.