Virginia · Nonprofit
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 596 TIDEWATER
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 596 TIDEWATER (Virginia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $529,608 to it, the largest being United Way of South Hampton Roads ($323,787). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $530k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Boy Scouts of America Council 596 Tidewater does
Mission
Education of america's youth
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To provide an effective educational program designed to develop character and the responsibilites of citizenship in the program's participants
$2,116,749 spent$882,018 earned by the program100% of program spendingTo provide an effective educational program designed to develop character and the responsibilites of citizenship in the program's participants
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,116,749.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.4M to $3.6M (+53%).
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 13% · 2021 9% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 596 TIDEWATER’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. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $149k → $34k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 COUNCIL 596 TIDEWATER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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 COUNCIL 596 TIDEWATER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 77%; 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 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 596 TIDEWATER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 84% · 2019 75% · 2020 79% · 2022 88% · 2023 40% — 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
50% of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 596 TIDEWATER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
93% of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 596 TIDEWATER's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $112k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 COUNCIL 596 TIDEWATER's revenue grew 28% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 596 TIDEWATER
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
32%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 596 TIDEWATER: 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 COUNCIL 596 TIDEWATER?
- BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 596 TIDEWATER (Virginia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $529,608 to it, the largest being United Way of South Hampton Roads ($323,787). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 596 TIDEWATER have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $529,608 in grants to BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 596 TIDEWATER, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 596 TIDEWATER?
- United Way of South Hampton Roads is the largest funder on record, with $323,787 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 596 TIDEWATER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 12 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