· Public charity
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)
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $1,113,800 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,323,161 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,209,361 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $97k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $559k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
OCCONEECHEE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #4215× · 2017–2023 · $293k · revenue +46%- GSGREAT SOUTHWEST-YUCCA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC2× · 2017–2019 · $159k · revenue +9%
- AWANTHONY WAYNE AREA COUNCIL INC6× · 2017–2022 · $83k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- MSMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $961k
MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $161k · revenue +208%- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-ALOHA COUNCIL #104one grant, 2019 · $140k · revenue -14%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
To prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law.
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…
The corporation shall promote, within the territory covered by the charter from time to time granted it by scouting of america and in accordance with the congressional charter, bylaws, and rules and regulations of scouting of america, the…
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.
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…
To prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetime by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boy Scouts of America Sagamore Council 162 and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 61 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
92 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ARROW WV INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCCONEECHEE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #421 ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT SOUTHWEST-YUCCA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-ALOHA COUNCIL #104 ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590 ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC HARBORS COUNCILBOY SCOUTS ↗
- Who funds UTAH NATIONAL PARKS COUNCIL 591 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GREATER YOSEMITE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PACIFIC COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GRAND CANYON COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America Council 713 Sequoyah ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INLAND EMPIRE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TRAPPER TRAILS COUNCIL - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 589 ↗
- Who funds LAS VEGAS AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 329 ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 326 MID-AMERICA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-MOUNTAIN WEST COUNCIL INC 106 ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN SIERRA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Greater Wyoming Council of the BSA ↗
- Who funds CATALINA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CRATER LAKE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Inland NW Council Boy Scouts of America ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL NO 604 BLUE MOUNTAIN COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MIDNIGHT SUN BOY SCOUT COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds 610 Great Alaska Council ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 614 GRAND COLUMBIA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SNAKE RIVER COUNCIL INC BSA ↗
- Who funds ANTHONY WAYNE AREA COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds OLD HICKORY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GREATER ALABAMA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Boy Scouts of America funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Central Florida Council Boy Scouts of America Inc — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.