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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 FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$547k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$7.0MEducation$196kEmployment$10kPhilanthropy$5k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $1,113,800, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,323,161 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,209,361 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $97k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$12,416
Median grant
7
States reached
$837M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Arrow WV Inc$546,668
National Boy Scouts of America Foundation$454,492
UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY$43,000
Mobile Area Council$17,138
Sam Houston Area Council$12,416
Puerto Rico Council$12,335
Association of Baptists for Scouting$11,725
Connecticut Yankee Coundil$9,900
Atlanta Area Council$6,126
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GRAND CANYON COUNCIL 10: $125k → 11%CATALINA COUNCIL 11: $110k → 15%HEART OF NEW ENGLAND COUNCIL 230: $25k → 11%Mid-America Council 326: $124k → 12%ORE-IDA COUNCIL 106: $115k → 8%GRAND TETON COUNCIL 107: $125k → 11%SNAKE RIVER COUNCIL 111: $90k → 11%CRADLE OF LIBERTY COUNCIL 525: $27k → 6%San Francisco Bay Area Council 28: $36k → 10%CALIFORNIA INLAND EMPIRE COUNCIL 45: $125k → 14%GREATER YOSEMITE COUNCIL 59: $128k → 15%SOUTHERN SIERRA COUNCIL 30: $110k → 18%SEQUOIA COUNCIL 27: $125k → 19%ALOHA COUNCIL 104: $140k → 9%Arrow WV Inc: $547k → 14%GREAT SOUTHWEST COUNCIL NO 412: $139k → 14%Greater Alabama Council No 1: $38k → 16%CASCADE PACIFIC COUNCIL NO 492: $125k → 12%CRATER LAKE COUNCIL NO 491: $100k → 13%Middle Tennessee Council 560: $25k → 14%Occoneechee Council 421: $214k → 8%OLD HICKORY COUNCIL 427: $25k → 15%GREAT SALT LAKE COUNCIL 590: $135k → 8%UTAH NATIONAL PARKS COUNCIL 591: $125k → 8%TRAPPER TRAILS COUNCIL 589: $125k → 9%Atlanta Area Council 92: $25k → 8%ROCKY MOUNTAIN COUNCIL 63: $100k → 15%HOOSIER TRAILS CNCL 145: $32k → 18%PACIFIC HARBORS COUNCIL 612: $132k → 9%BLUE MOUNTAIN COUNCIL 604: $100k → 11%INLAND NORTHWEST COUNCIL 611: $100k → 12%GRAND COLUMBIA COUNCIL NO 614: $94k → 17%GREAT ALASKA COUNCIL 610: $100k → 10%MIDNIGHT SUN COUNCIL 696: $100k → 21%NATIONAL CATHOLIC COMMITTEE ON SCOUTING: $77k → 6%MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY: $961k → 16%GREATER WYOMING COUNCIL: $110k → 11%NEVADA AREA COUNCIL 329: $125k → 10%LAS VEGAS AREA COUNCIL 328: $125k → 13%UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY: $43k → 6%National Boy Scouts of America Foundation: $454k → 14%MIDDLE TENNESSEE COUNCIL 560: $25k → 14%Occoneechee Council 421: $28k → 8%National Catholic Committee on Scou: $25k → 6%Montclair State University: $161k → 16%UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY: $35k → 6%WESTERN LOS ANGELES COUNTY CNCL 51: $30k → 14%OCCONEECHEE COUNCIL 421: $26k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
MA
OR
NV
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
HI
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 32 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
59

Total granted

$1.8M
$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
-10%

Still filing today

88%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $559k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • GS
    GREAT SOUTHWEST-YUCCA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $159k · revenue +9%
  • AW
    ANTHONY WAYNE AREA COUNCIL INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $83k · revenue +34%
  • UN
    US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $78k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • MS
    MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $961k
  • MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $161k · revenue +208%
  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-ALOHA COUNCIL #104
    one grant, 2019 · $140k · revenue -14%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Central Mn Council of Boy Scouts of America

It is the mission of the boy scouts of america to prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetime by instilling in them the values of the scout law and oath.

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2
Suffolk County Council Boy Scouts of America

The mission is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and scout law.

Youth Development
3
Boy Scouts of America 388 Greater Hudson Valley Council

It is the mission of scouting america, greater hudson valley council, inc. to deliver the highest-quality, values-based youth program of character development and leadership training, based upon the precepts embodied in the scout oath and…

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4
Boy Scouts of America Council 552 Pee Dee Area Council

The corporation shall promote, within the territory covered by the charter from time to time granted it by the boy scouts of america and in accordance with the congressional charter, bylaws, and rules and regulations of the boy scouts of…

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5
Boy Scouts of America East Texas Area Council

The corporation shall promote, within the territory covered by the charter from time to time granted it by the Boy Scouts of America and in accordance with the Congressional Charter, Bylaws, and Rules and Regulations of the Boy Scouts of…

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6
Boy Scouts of America 96 Central Ga Council

The boy scouts provide a program for community organizations that offers effective character, citizenship and personal fitness training for youth. the organization endeavors to develop american citizens who are physically, mentally and…

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7
Southern Sierra Council Boy Scouts of America

The mission of the boy scouts of america is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law.

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8
Boy Scouts of America Calcasieu Area Council 209

The corporation shall promote, within the territory covered by the charter from time to time granted it by the boy scouts of america and in accordance with the congressional charter, bylaws, and rules and regulations of the boy scouts of…

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9
Boy Scouts of America 624 Gateway Area Council

To prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law.

Youth Development
10
Boy Scouts of America 571 Circle Ten Council

The purpose of circle ten council is to promote and extend scouting in northeast texas and southeast oklahoma. our goal is to provide all youth and adults with programs, training, and awards that build character, teach participatory…

Youth Development
11
Indian Waters Council Boy Scouts of America Inc

It is the mission of the boy scouts of america to prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath law.

Youth Development
12
East Carolina Council Bsa

The corporation shall promote, within the territory covered by the charter from time to time granted it by the boy scouts of america and in accordance with the congressional charter, bylaws, and rules and regulations of the boy scouts of…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boy Scouts of America Sagamore Council 162; the most unlike its peers is Philanthropic Ventures Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

92 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 92 of the 95 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/92
Grantees still filing
43/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY: $960,611 · OtherMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITYARROW WV INC: $546,668 · OtherARROW WV INCOCCONEECHEE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #421: $293,076 · OtherOCCONEECHEE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #421+66 more: $3,619,105 · Other+66 moreNATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $454,492 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF …CASCADE PACIFIC COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $125,252 · Youth DevelopmentCASCADE PACIFIC COUNCIL…Boy Scouts of America Council 713 Sequoyah: $125,093 · Youth DevelopmentBoy Scouts of America C…NEVADA AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 329: $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEVADA AREA COUNCIL BOY…GRAND TETON COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentGRAND TETON COUNCIL OF …Inland NW Council Boy Scouts of America: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentInland NW Council Boy S…ANTHONY WAYNE AREA COUNCIL INC: $82,964 · Youth DevelopmentANTHONY WAYNE AREA COUN…BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $68,881 · Youth DevelopmentBoy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council: $50,996 · Youth Development+14 more: $243,147 · Youth Development+14 moreMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $161,000 · EducationUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $78,000 · EducationPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $5,356 · Philanthropy
Other$5,419,460Youth Development$1,500,825Education$239,000Philanthropy$5,356

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $454,492 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOCCONEECHEE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #421: $293,076 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $161,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGREAT SOUTHWEST-YUCCA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $159,138 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-ALOHA COUNCIL #104: $140,240 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590: $135,208 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUTAH NATIONAL PARKS COUNCIL 591 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $131,750 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetGREATER YOSEMITE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $127,600 over 1y, 10% of budgetCASCADE PACIFIC COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $125,252 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGRAND CANYON COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $125,106 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBoy Scouts of America Council 713 Sequoyah: $125,093 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA INLAND EMPIRE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $125,057 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLAS VEGAS AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $125,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTRAPPER TRAILS COUNCIL - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 589: $125,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetNEVADA AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 329: $125,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetGRAND TETON COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $125,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 326 MID-AMERICA COUNCIL: $123,875 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-MOUNTAIN WEST COUNCIL INC 106: $115,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetCATALINA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $110,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetGreater Wyoming Council of the BSA: $110,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSOUTHERN SIERRA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $110,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $100,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetInland NW Council Boy Scouts of America: $100,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCRATER LAKE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $100,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budget610 Great Alaska Council: $100,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL NO 604 BLUE MOUNTAIN COUNCIL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMIDNIGHT SUN BOY SCOUT COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $100,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 614 GRAND COLUMBIA COUNCIL: $94,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetSNAKE RIVER COUNCIL INC BSA: $90,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetANTHONY WAYNE AREA COUNCIL INC: $82,964 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $78,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $68,881 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOLD HICKORY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $65,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetGREATER ALABAMA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $56,415 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $55,936 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council: $50,996 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN LOS ANGELES COUNTY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 51: $50,616 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA: $50,355 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLASALLE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #165: $49,198 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $49,015 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPATHWAY TO ADVENTURE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $48,810 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHOOSIER TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $48,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetINDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $44,610 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCONNECTICUT YANKEE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $33,923 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCRADLE OF LIBERTY COUNCIL 525 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $32,797 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBUFFALO TRACE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #156: $32,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMOBILE AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $30,188 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMOUNT BAKER COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $29,090 over 2y, 0.9% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

National Boy Scouts o…NRA Foundation IncBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA…Equitable Foundation …America's CharitiesVerizon FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Edward Jones Foundati…Lincoln Financial Fou…The Allstate Foundati…T Rowe Price Program …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
National Boy Scouts of America FoundationTX55.7× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Boy Scouts of America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boy Scouts of America. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 110%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Central Florida Council Boy Scouts of America Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 95 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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