Texas · Nonprofit
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Texas) receives grants from 182 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,658,074 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,155,141). 90 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $330M
- Funders on record
- 182
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $245M
What Boy Scouts of America does
Mission
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)
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Program Development and Delivery - Development of the program for approximately 993 thousand registered youth and over 455 thousand adult leaders; providing camping and outdoor literature, materials, and techniques, as well as engineering service, to local councils; managing the volunteer training programs of the Boy Scouts of America and handling all national program support in the areas of health and safety, activities, program evaluation, and low-income program; developing uniforms and insignia and other program elements; operating the National Scouting Museum; operating four high-adventure bases and the national jamboree.
$65,224,290 spentof which $3,252,239 as grants$58,458,330 earned by the program29% of program spendingField Operations - Support for local councils, including but not limited to, administration of standards of performance, inspection of council campsites, assistance with long-range planning, conduct of regional training and conferences for professionals and volunteers, administration of an extensive program of local council financial support, and administration and funding of the defense of our private membership rights.
$24,393,407 spentof which $72,082 as grants$2,067,615 earned by the program11% of program spendingHuman Resources and Training - Administration of all aspects of human resources policies for the local councils including recruiting, placement, and training of professional employees; promoting diversity; managing compensation and benefits programs; and monitoring employee relations.
$6,223,647 spent$174,413 earned by the program3% of program spendingMarketing - Administration of public relations, including providing news releases, features for print and broadcast media, and internal news in the form of newsletters, fact sheets, and the annual report for the nationwide Scouting family. In addition, protection and promotion of the Scouting brand.
$7,585,961 spent3% of program spendingScouting Programs: Insurance Costs Born for National and Local Councils - Support of the group medical, life, dental, and general liability insurance programs for local councils and the National Council.
$116,340,996 spent$86,878,732 earned by the program53% of program spendingScouting Programs: World Bureau Fees - Payment to the World Organization of the Scout Movement in support of international enrichment programs based on an established fee for each registered, uniformed youth and adult member. This registration fee supports international enrichment programs for the youth and adult membership. These programs include World Jamborees, National Association encampments, international training programs and conferences, program related magazines, brochures and pamphlets.
$1,608,000 spent1% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $221,376,301.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.4B to $1.2B (−14%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Roger Krone
President and Chief Executive Officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 62 funders to 54 funders, grant income fell $4.4M → $2.3M.
72 of 182 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $48M from 46 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Boy Scouts of America Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA raised.
From the IRS filings of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 182 funders by total. 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
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
99% 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 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 29% · 2019 27% · 2020 21% · 2021 49% · 2022 15% · 2023 22% — 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.
How long its funders stay
35% of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
58% of 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. Of the $9.4M that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 37 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 32 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.
Organizations like BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 30 states
Part of a family of 11 related entities
- BSA Asset Management LLC · disregarded
- Delaware BSA LLC · disregarded
- Learning for Life · exempt
- National Boy Scouts of America Foundation · exempt
- Learning for Life Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
- BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Texas) receives grants from 182 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,658,074 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,155,141). 90 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 182 organizations giving $22,658,074 in grants to BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, 90 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,155,141 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 182 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing