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BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - THREE RIVERS COUNCIL

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - THREE RIVERS COUNCIL (Texas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,480,600 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF BEAUMONT & NORTH JEFFERSON COUNTY ($569,327). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$870k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$3.0M
10/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%
01What it does

What Boy Scouts of America - Three Rivers Council does

Mission

The corporation shall promote, within the territory covered by the charter from the 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 in Scoutcraft, and teaching them patriotism, courage, self-reliance, and kindred virtues, using the methods which are now in common use by the Boys Scouts of America.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide materials & leadership for activities for the boy scouts. Maintain & operate a camp for the benefit of scouts. Sponsor day camps & family camping activities. Organize troops in southeast texas.

    $492,226 spent$869,536 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $492,226.

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 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($4.0M)2018 Revenue 84 ($992k) Expenses 103 ($1.1M) Net assets 94 ($3.7M)2019 Revenue 81 ($963k) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 99 ($3.9M)2020 Revenue 76 ($902k) Expenses 90 ($943k) Net assets 101 ($4.0M)2021 Revenue 91 ($1.1M) Expenses 92 ($963k) Net assets 90 ($3.6M)2022 Revenue 133 ($1.6M) Expenses 168 ($1.8M) Net assets 76 ($3.0M)2023 Revenue 72 ($846k) Expenses 82 ($859k) Net assets 76 ($3.0M)2024 Revenue 74 ($870k) Expenses 76 ($796k) Net assets 77 ($3.0M)
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Revenue (74)Expenses (76)Net assets (77)

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 $3.9M to $3.3M (−15%).

$4.2M
$3.9M
$4.1M
$4.4M
$3.9M
$3.3M
$3.3M
$3.3M
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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. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$135k
’17
−$88k
’18
−$89k
’19
−$40k
’20
$111k
’21
−$185k
’22
−$14k
’23
$74k
’24
3.9
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.

Chief executive

Leslie Bentley

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1212121111111010
Joined·+0+0+4+0+0+2+2
No longer listed·0050032
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $194k → $139k.

4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 - THREE RIVERS 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 - THREE RIVERS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

79% 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 - THREE RIVERS COUNCIL.

38%
largest funder
72%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 51% · 2019 59% · 2020 35% · 2021 29% · 2022 29% · 2023 36% — 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

31% of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - THREE RIVERS COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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

83% of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - THREE RIVERS COUNCIL's grant income comes from Texas funders.

NE
DE
NC
LA
TX

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $69k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - THREE RIVERS 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

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 13%Fundraising 25%

Governance

54
board members
96%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

88%

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

  • National Boy Scouts of America Council · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - THREE RIVERS COUNCIL?
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - THREE RIVERS COUNCIL (Texas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,480,600 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF BEAUMONT & NORTH JEFFERSON COUNTY ($569,327). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - THREE RIVERS COUNCIL have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,480,600 in grants to BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - THREE RIVERS COUNCIL, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - THREE RIVERS COUNCIL?
UNITED WAY OF BEAUMONT & NORTH JEFFERSON COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $569,327 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - THREE RIVERS 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.

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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 18 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