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BUCKTAIL COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

BUCKTAIL COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,781 to it, the largest being DUBOIS AREA UNITED WAY ($60,220). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$957k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$189k
Net assets
$1.6M
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Bucktail Council Boy Scouts of America does

Mission

Promoting self-reliance and citizenship, training youths in scout craft and teaching patriotism, courage, self-reliance, and preparing them to make ethical choices over their lifetime.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Services related to camping.

    $272,365 spentof which $8,265 as grants$219,115 earned by the program
    45% of program spending
  2. Services related to activities.

    $9,782 spent$17,296 earned by the program
    2% of program spending
  3. Services related to volunteer leaders, organizing new units, conservation of established units, health and safety, volunteer leaders, activities, community relations, meetings and field service, etc.

    $318,343 spent
    53% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $600,490.

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 ($645k) Expenses 100 ($717k) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2018 Revenue 110 ($707k) Expenses 98 ($705k) Net assets 93 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 87 ($561k) Expenses 89 ($639k) Net assets 96 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 63 ($408k) Expenses 106 ($760k) Net assets 80 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 127 ($817k) Expenses 96 ($690k) Net assets 87 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 99 ($639k) Expenses 101 ($726k) Net assets 70 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 123 ($795k) Expenses 114 ($817k) Net assets 74 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 148 ($957k) Expenses 93 ($665k) Net assets 92 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (148)Expenses (93)Net assets (92)

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 $2.1M to $1.8M (−14%).

$2.0M
$1.9M
$2.0M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$1.8M
$1.8M
$2.0M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 5% · 2021 7% · 2023 11%. 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.

−$72k
’17
$2k
’18
−$77k
’19
−$352k
’20
$127k
’21
−$87k
’22
−$22k
’23
$292k
’24
3.8
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed3134282528292824
Joined·+6+2+2+8+5+4+3
No longer listed·3855457
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $12k → $27k.

1 of 8 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 BUCKTAIL COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA’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

BUCKTAIL COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 BUCKTAIL COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA.

32%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 47% · 2019 93% · 2020 34% · 2021 27% · 2022 38% · 2023 43% — 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 BUCKTAIL COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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

94% of BUCKTAIL COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

WI
PA

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 BUCKTAIL COUNCIL 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 Pennsylvania

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 4%Fundraising 6%

Governance

24
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Trust B · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUCKTAIL COUNCIL 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 BUCKTAIL COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
BUCKTAIL COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,781 to it, the largest being DUBOIS AREA UNITED WAY ($60,220). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BUCKTAIL COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $188,781 in grants to BUCKTAIL COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BUCKTAIL COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
DUBOIS AREA UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $60,220 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BUCKTAIL COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 8 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