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CAPE COD & ISLANDS COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

CAPE COD & ISLANDS COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $345,027 to it, the largest being CHAMBERLAIN FOUNDATION ($145,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$639k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$345k
Net assets
$5.6M
7/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Cape Cod & Islands Council Inc Boy Scouts of America does

Mission

Promotion of scouting on cape cod and the islands

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. It is the mission of the boy scouts of america, to prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetimes, by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law. Cape cod and islands council fulfills this mission by making the programs of cub scouting, scouts bsa, venturing, sea scouting, and learning for life/exploring available to community organizations within its territory to use as their programs. The council presently serves over 711 young people in 43 cub scout packs, scouts bsa troops, venture crews, sea scout ships,and explorer posts.

    $572,011 spent$134,070 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $572,011.

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 ($844k) Expenses 100 ($780k) Net assets 100 ($5.7M)2018 Revenue 73 ($613k) Expenses 93 ($725k) Net assets 93 ($5.4M)2019 Revenue 74 ($625k) Expenses 87 ($682k) Net assets 98 ($5.6M)2020 Revenue 58 ($492k) Expenses 82 ($643k) Net assets 97 ($5.6M)2021 Revenue 87 ($735k) Expenses 78 ($610k) Net assets 101 ($5.8M)2022 Revenue 132 ($1.1M) Expenses 185 ($1.4M) Net assets 85 ($4.9M)2023 Revenue 170 ($1.4M) Expenses 88 ($689k) Net assets 97 ($5.6M)2024 Revenue 105 ($888k) Expenses 84 ($656k) Net assets 100 ($5.7M)2025 Revenue 76 ($639k) Expenses 89 ($698k) Net assets 97 ($5.6M)
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Revenue (76)Expenses (89)Net assets (97)

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 $5.2M to $6.3M (+21%).

$6.4M
$6.0M
$6.3M
$6.2M
$6.1M
$5.2M
$6.3M
$6.4M
$6.3M
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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 14% · 2021 8% · 2022 8%. 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 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$64k
’17
−$112k
’18
−$57k
’19
−$151k
’20
$124k
’21
−$328k
’22
$745k
’23
$232k
’24
−$59k
’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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Listed292427292823232323
Joined·+5+7+3+4+0+2+4+0
No longer listed·104155240
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $112k → $22k.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 CAPE COD & ISLANDS COUNCIL INC 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

CAPE COD & ISLANDS COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

42%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 74% · 2019 59% · 2020 55% · 2021 36% · 2022 98% · 2023 46% — broadly stable.

“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

60% of CAPE COD & ISLANDS COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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

77% of CAPE COD & ISLANDS COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA
NJ
TX

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

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’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 CAPE COD & ISLANDS COUNCIL INC 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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 4%Fundraising 14%

Governance

23
board members
96%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

93%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds CAPE COD & ISLANDS COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
CAPE COD & ISLANDS COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $345,027 to it, the largest being CHAMBERLAIN FOUNDATION ($145,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CAPE COD & ISLANDS COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $345,027 in grants to CAPE COD & ISLANDS COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CAPE COD & ISLANDS COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
CHAMBERLAIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $145,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAPE COD & ISLANDS COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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