How much did National Boy Scouts of America Foundation grant in FY2024?

National Boy Scouts of America Foundation reported 34 itemized grants totaling $33,905,679, out of $34,709,545 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is National Boy Scouts of America Foundation based?

National Boy Scouts of America Foundation is based in TX.

National Boy Scouts of America Foundation

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· Public charity

National Boy Scouts of America Foundation

Scouting America Foundation financially supports the mission, values, and programs of Scouting America by promoting and soliciting gifts, grants, and matching funds from those interested in supporting Scouting, nationally and internationally, through local councils and other Scouting organizations.

$35M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$29M

Largest

01What you fund

01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Youth Development$59MEducation$1.8MReligion$641kHealth$618kPhilanthropy$445kRecreation & Sports$340kPublic Benefit$308kArts & Culture$200kOther$0

02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 34 grants below total $33,905,679 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $34,709,545 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $803,866 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 $10k4 grants · $30k
$10k–50k18 grants · $451k
$50k–250k4 grants · $493k
$250k+8 grants · $33M

$30,215

Median grant

States reached

$138M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Boy Scouts of America	$28,725,309
Crossroads Of America Council 160	$1,399,432
Longhorn Council	$950,300
LA SALLE COUNCIL 165	$476,148
ANTHONY WAYNE AREA COUNCIL 157	$464,352
Sagamore Council 162	$358,200
Hoosier Trails Council 145	$306,600
Buffalo Trace Council 156	$252,171
Pennsylvania Dutch Council 524	$200,300
Michigan Crossroads Council 780	$109,000
WESTERN LOS ANGELES COUNTY COUNCIL	$95,000
Morgan Stanley Global Charitable Gift Fund	$88,201
TRANSATLANTIC COUNCIL	$46,000
Central Florida Council	$43,170
Samoset Council 627	$42,670

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$58M · 52 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

52 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$58M

$4.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-8%

+8%

Still filing today

94%

87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Youth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

BS
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
4× · 2017–2024 · $36M · revenue +24%
LC
LASALLE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #165 TRUST
2× · 2023–2024 · $1.1M · revenue ×16 · 50% of their budget
HT
HOOSIER TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
7× · 2018–2024 · $955k · revenue +30% · 36% of their budget

Funded once

LF
LEARNING FOR LIFE
one grant, 2017 · $1.1M · revenue -65%
WV
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -2%
PS
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2017 · $618k

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

04Your field

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.

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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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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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

Boy Scouts of America Council No 604 Blue Mountain Council Inc

To 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 america, the…

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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

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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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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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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Boy Scouts of America Calcasieu Area Council 209

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Boy Scouts of Americablue Ridge Mountains Council

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

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Boy Scouts of America Central Nc Council #416

The mission of the bsa is to prepare young people to make ethical decisions over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law. the bsa program seeks to positively impact youth risk behaviors, juvenile crime,…

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Boy Scouts of America Natl Council 101 Northeast Georgia Council

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…

Youth Development

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 Monmouth University Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 61 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/91

the rest of the field

15%

20,233/136,713

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.

04the grantee network

87 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. 87 of the 91 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

84/87

Grantees still filing

40/87

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Youth Development$43,148,848Other$17,567,971Education$1,847,418Community Improvement$356,444Arts & Culture$200,000Philanthropy$88,201Recreation & Sports$20,000

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.

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.

Boy Scouts of AmericaTX55.7× affinity24 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boy Scouts of America · NRA Foundation Inc · BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA Northeast Region Trust · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Edward Jones Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Equitable Foundation Inc · LPL Financial Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 National Boy Scouts of America Foundation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to National Boy Scouts of America Foundation?

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines