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BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL (California) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,169,936 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,194,910). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $42M
What Boy Scouts of America 55 Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council does
Mission
The mission of the boy scouts of america 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. Scout oath: on my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to god and my country and to obey the scout law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight. Scout law: a scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Scouting activity has existed in santa clara county as early as 1915 when troop 2 in los gatos was first chartered by the national council. More than 100 years later, scouting continues to grow with our great valley. The silicon valley monterey bay council currently serves 10,000 youth across the counties of monterey, san benito, santa clara and santa cruz and has two camping facilities. We are council #055 in the national service territory 3 of the boy scouts of america.
$5,987,979 spentof which $179,043 as grants$2,547,665 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,987,979.
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 2021 to 2022, from $54M to $41M (−24%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 12% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Eric Tarbox
Scout executive/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $106k → $445k.
16 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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: $3.3M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Boy Scouts Memorial Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL raised.
From the IRS filings of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
56% 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 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 54% · 2019 92% · 2020 30% · 2021 45% · 2022 42% · 2023 46% — growing more concentrated.
“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
32% of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
54% of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL'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 $2.4M that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL?
- BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL (California) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,169,936 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,194,910). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% 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 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $5,169,936 in grants to BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,194,910 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL 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.
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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 56 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