Indiana · Nonprofit
BUFFALO TRACE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #156
BUFFALO TRACE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #156 (Indiana) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,670,757 to it, the largest being NATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ($537,133). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $875k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Buffalo Trace Council Inc Boy Scouts of America #156 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
The organization provides a program for all youth based on character development, citizenship training, and personal health and fitness. The council achieves these three objectives through partnerships with local schools, churches and community based organizations. Buffalo trace council served over 5000 youth through cub scouting, boy scouting, venturing, and exploring. Buffalo trace council offers special outreach programs; scoutreach, serving youth in after-school scouting programs and exceptional needs scouting programs, serving special needs students in school classrooms.
$1,004,329 spentof which $40,015 as grants$124,928 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,004,329.
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.
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 $4.7M to $5.8M (+23%).
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 16% · 2021 11% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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 broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $171k → $268k.
8 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 BUFFALO TRACE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #156’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
BUFFALO TRACE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #156 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 BUFFALO TRACE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #156.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 58% · 2019 66% · 2020 67% · 2021 61% · 2022 63% · 2023 63% — 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 BUFFALO TRACE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #156's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
55% of BUFFALO TRACE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #156's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $756k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $915k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like BUFFALO TRACE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #156
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUFFALO TRACE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #156?
- BUFFALO TRACE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #156 (Indiana) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,670,757 to it, the largest being NATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ($537,133). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BUFFALO TRACE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #156 have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,670,757 in grants to BUFFALO TRACE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #156, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUFFALO TRACE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #156?
- NATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $537,133 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUFFALO TRACE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #156 find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 26 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