How much did NATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

NATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION reported 34 grants totaling $34,709,545 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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NATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION

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

$35M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$29M

Largest

01What you fund

0172% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Youth Development$43MEducation$1.8MCommunity Improvement$356kArts & Culture$200kPhilanthropy$88kRecreation & Sports$20kOther$18M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

movementhoratio algerpsapastagophilmont staffinstitution

2019

movementpreparesinclusiveextends corporationhighlycorporation territoryscout

2020

scholarship youthprepare makeprepare youngyoung makescout oathethical moralmoral choices

2021

citizensprepares younghighlycitizenship trainingtraining personalpersonal fitnessprepare make

2022

fidelitydonorsincreaseaffairsoutreachgivingpublicly available

2023

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2024

law scoutpreparingscout lawyoung developyoung waysways prepareprepare make

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

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

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% — the area typically sits at 10%. 92% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. 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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

$59M · 53 repeat orgs$4.7M to everyone else

53 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$59M

$4.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-10%

-1%

Still filing today

94%

88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Youth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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%
LS
LA SALLE COUNCIL 165
2× · 2023–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +641% · 50% of their budget
HT
Hoosier Trails Council 145
7× · 2018–2024 · $955k · revenue +8% · 36% of their budget

Funded once

LF
Learning for Life
one grant, 2017 · $1.1M · revenue -65%
WV
WEST VIRGINIA UNIV FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +16%
PS
Penn State Univ - Hershey Pro Wellness Center
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

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

To provide a values-based youth program based on precepts in the scout oath and law.

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Boy Scouts of America Council No 604

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 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

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

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Bay Area Council Boy Scouts of Amer

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Boy Scouts of America Montana Council

The corporation shal promote, within the territory covered by the charter time to time granted to 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 Natl 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

Boy Scouts of America 96 Central Ga

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

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Southern Sierra Council Boy Scouts

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Boy Scouts of America

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.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boy Scouts of America and the most unlike its peers is New York Public Radio. 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/91

the rest of the field

13%

17,176/136,713

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.

05the grantee network

87 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

84/87

Grantees still filing

35/87

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 AmericaTX67.2× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 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 · Learning for Life · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Murray Family Boy Scouts of Ame · United Way Worldwide · America's Charities · Edward Jones Foundation · Ernst & Young Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · 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 organisation 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SAMOSET COUNCIL 627 Total.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 237076816 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SAMOSET COUNCIL 627 Total, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 55% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to National Boy Scouts of America Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

NATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

87 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

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

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NATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

87 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

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

More from the funding graph