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BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA POTAWATOMI AREA COUNCIL-OPERATING

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA POTAWATOMI AREA COUNCIL-OPERATING (Wisconsin) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,596,674 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($1,082,791). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.0M
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$3.7M
10/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Boy Scouts of America Potawatomi Area Council-Operating does

Mission

To prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the value of the scout oath and law.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The council develops character, citizenship and personal fitness in young people in our area through the program and activities of souting america.total youth served in 2025 - 3,733.

    $1,825,546 spentof which $75 as grants$1,149,748 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,825,546.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.4M) Expenses 100 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($2.5M)2018 Revenue 78 ($1.9M) Expenses 88 ($1.7M) Net assets 106 ($2.6M)2019 Revenue 91 ($2.2M) Expenses 94 ($1.8M) Net assets 119 ($2.9M)2020 Revenue 75 ($1.8M) Expenses 90 ($1.8M) Net assets 121 ($3.0M)2021 Revenue 85 ($2.0M) Expenses 108 ($2.1M) Net assets 118 ($2.9M)2022 Revenue 90 ($2.2M) Expenses 105 ($2.1M) Net assets 123 ($3.0M)2023 Revenue 107 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($2.0M) Net assets 147 ($3.6M)2024 Revenue 94 ($2.3M) Expenses 107 ($2.1M) Net assets 154 ($3.8M)2025 Revenue 82 ($2.0M) Expenses 103 ($2.0M) Net assets 152 ($3.7M)
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Revenue (82)Expenses (103)Net assets (152)Peer revenue range

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 $3.3M to $4.1M (+22%).

$2.9M
$3.0M
$3.4M
$3.4M
$3.5M
$3.3M
$4.1M
$4.3M
$4.3M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 11% · 2021 9% · 2022 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

34% of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA POTAWATOMI AREA COUNCIL-OPERATING’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,035 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$436k
’17
$141k
’18
$336k
’19
$36k
’20
−$59k
’21
$108k
’22
$602k
’23
$159k
’24
−$51k
’25
4.7
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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Listed605956615459625749
Joined·+1+0+10+1+6+6+0+0
No longer listed·23581358
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $196k → $238k.

8 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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: $144k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Boy Scouts of America Potawatomi Area Council-Trust Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA POTAWATOMI AREA COUNCIL-OPERATING raised.

From the IRS filings of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA POTAWATOMI AREA COUNCIL-OPERATING’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 POTAWATOMI AREA COUNCIL-OPERATING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

98% 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 POTAWATOMI AREA COUNCIL-OPERATING.

68%
largest funder
86%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 92% · 2019 88% · 2020 45% · 2021 94% · 2022 71% · 2023 42% — 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

67% of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA POTAWATOMI AREA COUNCIL-OPERATING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

100% of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA POTAWATOMI AREA COUNCIL-OPERATING's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI

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

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $483k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

Against its field

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA POTAWATOMI AREA COUNCIL-OPERATING is better cushioned than half of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve4.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA POTAWATOMI AREA COUNCIL-OPERATING

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 6%Fundraising 4%

Governance

47
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

81%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Boy Scouts of America Potawatomi Area Council - Trust Fund · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA POTAWATOMI AREA COUNCIL-OPERATING?
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA POTAWATOMI AREA COUNCIL-OPERATING (Wisconsin) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,596,674 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($1,082,791). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA POTAWATOMI AREA COUNCIL-OPERATING have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,596,674 in grants to BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA POTAWATOMI AREA COUNCIL-OPERATING, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA POTAWATOMI AREA COUNCIL-OPERATING?
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,082,791 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA POTAWATOMI AREA COUNCIL-OPERATING find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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