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Boy Scouts of America
As stated in the Boy Scouts of America Charter - The exempt purpose of the Boy Scouts of America is to promote through community organizations, and cooperation with other agencies, the ability of boys to do things for themselves and others, to train (Continued on Schedule O)
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $12,416
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $546,668
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 58
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $837M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Boy Scouts of America funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $659k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $93k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $91k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $114k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $1.3M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 58 | $3.9M | 81% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $263k | 48% |
| FY2017 | 21 | $287k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montclair State University | $960,611 | 1 | n/a |
| Arrow Wv Inc | $546,668 | 1 | n/a |
| Occoneechee Council Inc Boy Scouts of America #421 | $293,076 | 5 | 4% |
| Montclair State University Foundation Inc | $161,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Great Southwest-Yucca Council Boy Scouts of America Inc | $159,138 | 2 | 6% |
| Boy Scouts of America-Aloha Council #104 | $140,240 | 1 | 4% |
| Crossroads of the West Council Inc Boy Scouts of America 590 | $135,208 | 1 | 2% |
| Pacific Harbors Councilboy Scouts | $132,034 | 1 | n/a |
| Utah National Parks Council 591 Boy Scouts of America | $131,750 | 2 | 3% |
| Greater Yosemite Council Boy Scouts of America | $127,600 | 1 | 10% |
Show all 93 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Boy Scouts of America supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 87 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Boy Scouts of America Foundation · NRA Foundation Inc · BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA Northeast Region Trust · Equitable Foundation Inc · America's Charities · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Edward Jones Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Allstate Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
About Boy Scouts of America
- How much does Boy Scouts of America give?
- Boy Scouts of America reported 9 itemized grants totaling $1,113,800, out of $2,323,161 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 58 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Boy Scouts of America fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (97%), Education (3%), Employment (0%).
- Who are Boy Scouts of America's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Montclair State University ($961k), Arrow Wv Inc ($547k), Occoneechee Council Inc Boy Scouts of America #421 ($293k).
- Does Boy Scouts of America fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Boy Scouts of America?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Boy Scouts of America Foundation, NRA Foundation Inc, BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA Northeast Region Trust.
- Where is Boy Scouts of America based?
- Boy Scouts of America is based in TX.
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