Minnesota · Nonprofit
GAMEHAVEN COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
GAMEHAVEN COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $533,706 to it, the largest being MAYO CLINIC ($220,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.9M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $534k
- Net assets
- $12M
What Gamehaven Council Inc Boy Scouts of America does
Mission
Our mission is to help youth mature into wholesome, capable, contributing, and personally fit adults by instilling the values expressed in the scout oath and law. The scouting program facilitates meaningful contact and communications between youth, parents, and other community organizations (partners) to help young people adopt strong values and life skills. The program presents activities which are fun, interesting, and provide valuable experience directed at the maturity and interest of the young people at their appropriate age and ability levels. The purpose of gamehaven council is to manage and control the quality of the program, assemble and train volunteers, gather resources to implement, and to promote the programs' parents, youth and the general community in the seven counties of southeastern minnesota.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Cub scouting - a family and home-centered program for children in kindergarten through 5th grade (or 5 through 10 year olds). Lions is an introductory program for kindergarten age children. 4th & 5th graders are webelos scouts (we'll be loyal scouts) and participate in more advanced activities that begin to prepare them to become boy scouts. Cub scouting's emphasis is on a quality program at the local level, where most children and families are involved. All scouting programs promote the development of citizenship, training, character building, and mental and physical fitness of young people through camping and activities. There were 625 young people served in 2024.
$366,819 spentof which $5,299 as grants$193,270 earned by the program54% of program spendingScouts bsa is a program for youth ages 11 through 17 designed to achieve the aims of scouting through a vigorous outdoor program and peer group leadership with the counsel of an adult scoutmaster. There were 502 youth participants in 2024.
$294,654 spent$155,248 earned by the program43% of program spendingLearning for life/exploring - designed for young men and women ages 14 through 20 to gain insight into a variety of programs that offer leadership training, fitness, outdoor activities, service, and career hands-on experiences. Exploring promotes the conditions necessary for the growth and development of adolescent youth. The mission of learning for life is to serve others by helping to instill values of good character, participating citizenship, and personal fitness in young people, and in other ways to prepare them to make ethical choices throughout their lives so that they can achieve their full potential. It's designed to build confidence, motivation, and self-esteem. It can help students learn positive values and make ethical decisions. Character building is a lifelong process, with roots firmly planted in childhood. Learning for life has curriculum designed to fulfill its mission. There were 25 participants in 2024.
$19,335 spent$10,187 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $680,808.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.5M to $12M (+256%).
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 23% · 2023 0%. 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.
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
Arne Landsverk
Scout executive/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $62k → $87k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 GAMEHAVEN COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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
GAMEHAVEN COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 GAMEHAVEN COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 67% · 2019 50% · 2020 42% · 2021 45% · 2022 52% · 2023 52% — 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
75% of GAMEHAVEN COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
63% of GAMEHAVEN COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA'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 $196k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $337k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 GAMEHAVEN 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Broers Avdventure Camp LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GAMEHAVEN COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
- GAMEHAVEN COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $533,706 to it, the largest being MAYO CLINIC ($220,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GAMEHAVEN COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $533,706 in grants to GAMEHAVEN COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GAMEHAVEN COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
- MAYO CLINIC is the largest funder on record, with $220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GAMEHAVEN 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 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 11 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