Tennessee · Nonprofit
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE (Tennessee) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,469,163 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($430,462). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Boy Scouts of America 560 Middle Tennessee does
Mission
The middle tennessee council boy scouts of america was founded in 1920 and exists today to serve others by helping to instill values in young people and prepare them to make ethical choices during their lifetime and achieve their full potential. Community-based organizations receive national charters to use the scouting program as part of their own youth work in the middle tennessee council. These 1,149 units in our council have goals compatible with those of the bsa and include religious, educational, civic, fraternal, business and labor groups, governments, corporations, professional associations and citizens' groups.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our youth participate in exciting indoor/outdoor activities for young men and women (ages 5-21). They are under the guidance of trained adult volunteers, who help them develop the life skills they need to become future leaders and active citizens in their communities. These skills include interdependence, ethical decisions making, conflict resolution, self-esteem, literacy skills, values system, personal growth, leadership development, sexual responsibility, positive peer relationships, service to others, mentoring skills, drug awareness education, teamwork, fitness, positive teen-adult relationships, school-to-work skills, emergency preparedness, character education, and many more.in 2025, the middle tennessee council, 9,537 scouts participated in programs at one of the council's four camps. Scouts earned 9,766 merit badges as they learned skills, sports, crafts, science, trades, business, and explored future careers that reflect their building interests. Throughout our program's community service is an important step, it's over 30,020 community service hours by tiger cubs, cub scouts, boy scouts, ventures and learning for life participants were tracked.our council provides…
$5,723,417 spentof which $123,475 as grants$2,176,903 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,723,417.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 $42M to $23M (−45%).
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.
51% of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $303k → $311k.
18 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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: $1.6M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE raised.
From the IRS filings of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 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 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
55% 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 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 42% · 2019 25% · 2020 47% · 2021 17% · 2022 17% · 2023 18% — 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
43% of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
85% of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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.
Against its field
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Properties Trust · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE?
- BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE (Tennessee) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,469,163 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($430,462). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $3,469,163 in grants to BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $430,462 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 69 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