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ALAMEDA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

ALAMEDA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $301,448 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($251,320). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2020
$82k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$301k
Net assets
$0
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 37%
01What it does

What Alameda Council Inc Boy Scouts of America does

Mission

Scouting is designed to meet the needs of young people between the ages of 8 and 21.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.

Program

Program expenses in 2020 included creating and supporting the following activities for cub scouts, boy scouts, venturers, and sea scouts: order of the arrow conclave, spring camporee, national jamboree contingent, cub scout day camp, national youth leadership training, independence day parade, webelos woods, popcorn sales, scouting for food, and order of the arrow ordeal. Program expenses also included direct support of unit scout programs through commissioner service, membership recruiting campaigns, adult leader training courses, monthly roundtables, and ongoing leader counseling -- and year-round support of youth member needs through council service center open five days a week for leader and parent support, marketing of scouting programs, and sales of supplies.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($431k) Expenses 100 ($404k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 83 ($360k) Expenses 77 ($311k) Net assets 95 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 115 ($498k) Expenses 83 ($335k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 19 ($82k) Expenses 243 ($982k) Net assets 0 ($0)
2017201820192020
Revenue (19)Expenses (243)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.3M to $0 (−100%).

$1.3M
$1.2M
$1.3M
$0
2017201820192020
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$27k
’17
$49k
’18
$163k
’19
−$899k
’20
2.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

2017201820192020
Listed27231518
Joined·+0+2+3
No longer listed·4100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $132k → $28k.

3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ALAMEDA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ALAMEDA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALAMEDA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA.

83%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 95% · 2019 100% · 2020 75% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of ALAMEDA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $301k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ALAMEDA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

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In California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 1%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

88%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds ALAMEDA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
ALAMEDA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $301,448 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($251,320). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ALAMEDA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $301,448 in grants to ALAMEDA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ALAMEDA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $251,320 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ALAMEDA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing