Tennessee · Nonprofit
CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Tennessee) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,673,976 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ($1,161,435). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Cherokee Area Council Incorporated Boy Scouts of America does
Mission
The mission of scouting america is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law. The cherokee area council consistently works to get kids in scouting and keep them in scouting to achieve a brighter future for our local community, states, and nation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To provide support services to unit sponsors for organizational training, camp and special events for the development of youth through scouting
$1,001,116 spentof which $8,632 as grants$447,983 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,001,116.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.7M to $3.0M (+10%).
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 10% · 2021 35%. 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.
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
Jared Pickens
Scout executive/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $109k → $112k.
4 of 24 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 CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 funders by total. 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
CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 84% · 2019 72% · 2020 88% · 2021 89% · 2022 85% · 2023 66% — growing more concentrated.
“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
27% of CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
89% of CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $91k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED 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 CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
- CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Tennessee) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,673,976 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ($1,161,435). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,673,976 in grants to CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA is the largest funder on record, with $1,161,435 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 24 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