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BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA EAST TEXAS AREA COUNCIL

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA EAST TEXAS AREA COUNCIL (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,202,529 to it, the largest being EAST TEXAS BOY SCOUT FOUNDATION ($2,696,385). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$3.2M
Net assets
$1.1M
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 37%
01What it does

What Boy Scouts of America East Texas Area Council does

Mission

The corporation shall promote, within the territory covered by the charter from time to time granted it by the Boy Scouts of America and in accordance with the Congressional Charter, Bylaws, and Rules and Regulations of the Boy Scouts of America, the Scouting program of promoting the ability of boys and young men and women to do things for themselves and others, training them in Scoutcraft, and teaching them patriotism, courage, self-reliance, and kindred virtues, using the methods which are now in common use by the Boy Scouts of America.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The east texas area council serves over 3,500 youth and 1,000 adult members and participants in 17 east texas counties. The mission of the boy scouts of america is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetime by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law.cub scouts is a family oriented, fun and educational program for youth in grades k-5.scouts bsa program is for 11-17 year olds who step into leadership roles in the outdoor classroom with guidance from trained leaders. Venturing program is a high adventure and the outdoor classroom combined to teach 14-20 year old boys and girls character and leadership.exploring program is a hands on career experiences with positive, professional adult leaders.the outdoor classroom educated over 650 scouts as part of our week-long summer and "turkey" camps in our council and another 800 elsewhere.2024 saw 73 scouts earn the bsas highest and most prestigious rank: eagle scout.

    $1,307,536 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,307,536.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($2.2M)2018 Revenue 92 ($1.4M) Expenses 93 ($1.5M) Net assets 94 ($2.0M)2019 Revenue 105 ($1.6M) Expenses 106 ($1.7M) Net assets 87 ($1.9M)2020 Revenue 70 ($1.0M) Expenses 81 ($1.3M) Net assets 74 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 86 ($1.3M) Expenses 86 ($1.4M) Net assets 69 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 144 ($2.1M) Expenses 183 ($3.0M) Net assets 76 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 89 ($1.3M) Expenses 103 ($1.7M) Net assets 60 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 85 ($1.3M) Expenses 89 ($1.4M) Net assets 52 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (85)Expenses (89)Net assets (52)

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 $1.8M to $1.5M (−20%).

$2.4M
$2.3M
$2.1M
$1.7M
$1.7M
$1.8M
$1.5M
$1.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$126k
’17
−$139k
’18
−$151k
’19
−$271k
’20
−$106k
’21
−$819k
’22
−$349k
’23
−$173k
’24
5.3
months of
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.

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Listed11111121
Joined········
No longer listed········
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $336k → $484k.

4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 EAST TEXAS AREA COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 EAST TEXAS AREA COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

97% 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 EAST TEXAS AREA COUNCIL.

84%
largest funder
94%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 90% · 2019 87% · 2020 75% · 2021 87% · 2022 80% · 2023 84% — 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 EAST TEXAS AREA COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

99% of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA EAST TEXAS AREA COUNCIL's grant income comes from Texas funders.

NE
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $204k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA EAST TEXAS AREA COUNCIL

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 2%Fundraising 7%

Governance

25
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

87%

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

  • East Texas Boy Scout Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA EAST TEXAS AREA COUNCIL?
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA EAST TEXAS AREA COUNCIL (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,202,529 to it, the largest being EAST TEXAS BOY SCOUT FOUNDATION ($2,696,385). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA EAST TEXAS AREA COUNCIL have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $3,202,529 in grants to BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA EAST TEXAS AREA COUNCIL, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA EAST TEXAS AREA COUNCIL?
EAST TEXAS BOY SCOUT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,696,385 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA EAST TEXAS AREA COUNCIL 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 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