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BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Washington) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,374,980 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,924,910). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $36M
What Boy Scouts of America does
Mission
The council's primary purpose is to facilitate and support the local delivery of the scouting program to youth, adhering to the principles and guidelines set forth by the national council of the Boy Scouts of America. The council provides guidance on safety and risk management to ensure that scouting activities are conducted safely, and provides training programs for adult leaders, helping them develop the skills and knowledge necessary to lead successful scouting units.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Scouts bsa is a program focused on families and community for youth 11 to 18 years of age. With the scout oath and scout law as guides, and the support of parents, community and religious organizations, these youth develop an awareness and appreciation of their role in the community and become good citizens. The program teaches leadership and character development through different methods, such as advancement, camping and training. This program served 3,772 youth in 2024.cub scouting is a program focused on families and community for youth 5 to 10 years of age. Cub scouts learn citizenship, compassion, and courage through service projects, ceremonies, games, and other activities promoting character development and physical fitness. This program served 5,596 youth in 2024.scouting america offers two unique programs for young men and women. Venturing is a program for 14 through 20 year olds. Venturing provides experiences to develop youth to become mature, responsible, caring adults. Each program is specific to the youth participating whether it is robotics, high adventuring, computing, or sailing. Exploring is a program for 14 to 21 year olds and focuses on career exploration.…
$2,688,822 spentof which $75,735 as grants$481,578 earned by the program40% of program spendingIn 2024, more than 10,000 scouts stayed overnight at one of our camps. With eight unique properties from the salish sea to the snoqulamie national forest and the eastern cascade range, our campers will experience exciting and enriching activities. We can offer experiences as diverse as scuba diving to natural rock face mountain climbing, robotics to mountain biking, or sailing and kayaking to nature studies. In addition to our overnight camping programs, we offer a variety of day programs with the cedar outdoor school and cub scout day camps.
$3,955,171 spentof which $41,512 as grants$2,657,889 earned by the program60% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,643,993.
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 $45M to $33M (−26%).
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: 2020 12% · 2021 11% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Manuel Ramos
Scout executive/CEO/secretary
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 19 funders, grant income fell $2.0M → $495k.
13 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 87% · 2018 52% · 2019 35% · 2020 60% · 2021 38% · 2022 47% · 2023 25% — 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
39% of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
84% 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 $857k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Perpetual Trust · corp_trust
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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 (Washington) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,374,980 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,924,910). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% 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 39 organizations giving $5,374,980 in grants to BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, 21 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 $1,924,910 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 Washington. 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 39 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