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CENTRAL MN COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

CENTRAL MN COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Minnesota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $382,939 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($133,750). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.0M
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$383k
Net assets
$6.9M
9/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Central Mn Council of Boy Scouts of America does

Mission

It is the mission of the boy scouts of america to prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetime by instilling in them the values of the scout law and oath.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provides scouting activities directed to character building and citizenship training. They served over 2,017 youth in 5 program units in the 12 counties of central minnesota.

    $1,140,663 spent$96,169 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. 1,356 scouts advanced in rank during 2024.55 scouts earned eagle rank.over 18,782 hours of community service provided by scouts in 2024.

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,140,663.

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 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($5.9M)2018 Revenue 72 ($1.2M) Expenses 98 ($1.3M) Net assets 95 ($5.6M)2019 Revenue 77 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 98 ($5.8M)2020 Revenue 73 ($1.2M) Expenses 81 ($1.1M) Net assets 101 ($6.0M)2021 Revenue 70 ($1.1M) Expenses 109 ($1.4M) Net assets 98 ($5.8M)2022 Revenue 120 ($2.0M) Expenses 94 ($1.2M) Net assets 105 ($6.2M)2023 Revenue 125 ($2.0M) Expenses 106 ($1.4M) Net assets 119 ($7.0M)2024 Revenue 62 ($1.0M) Expenses 98 ($1.3M) Net assets 117 ($6.9M)
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Revenue (62)Expenses (98)Net assets (117)

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 $6.4M to $7.3M (+14%).

$6.1M
$5.8M
$6.0M
$6.2M
$6.2M
$6.4M
$7.3M
$7.2M
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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: 2020 14% · 2021 10% · 2022 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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$321k
’17
−$104k
’18
−$51k
’19
$136k
’20
−$287k
’21
$729k
’22
$649k
’23
−$267k
’24
5.4
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
Listed3737333943444739
Joined·+5+5+12+7+6+5+6
No longer listed·59635214
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $37k → $14k.

2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 CENTRAL MN COUNCIL OF 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

CENTRAL MN COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

93% 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 CENTRAL MN COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA.

35%
largest funder
88%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 72% · 2019 82% · 2020 65% · 2021 74% · 2022 28% · 2023 81% — 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

33% of CENTRAL MN COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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

97% of CENTRAL MN COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN
NJ
DE

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $139k 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 CENTRAL MN COUNCIL OF 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 Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 6%Fundraising 5%

Governance

44
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds CENTRAL MN COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
CENTRAL MN COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Minnesota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $382,939 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($133,750). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CENTRAL MN COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $382,939 in grants to CENTRAL MN COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL MN COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $133,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTRAL MN COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 15 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing