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GARDEN STATE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
GARDEN STATE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (New Jersey) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,807,894 to it, the largest being HENRY M ROWAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($3,650,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Garden State Council Inc Boy Scouts of America does
Mission
Development of youth
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Camping activities - promotes the outdoors and teaches basic outdoor skills including archery and rifle range activities. All scouts are encouraged to spend a minimum of 10 days and nights each year, including a week of summer camp.
$2,318,186 spent100% of program spendingOther activities - programs include cub scout and citizenship training. Each programs instills in the youth the ability to do things for themselves and for others. Programs also teach patriotism, self reliance, courage and kindred virtues; and trains youth in scout crafts.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,318,186.
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 $15M to $10M (−31%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $17k → $526k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 GARDEN STATE 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
GARDEN STATE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 98% · 2019 99% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 91% · 2023 95% — 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
33% of GARDEN STATE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
99% of GARDEN STATE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110k 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 GARDEN STATE 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GARDEN STATE COUNCIL INC 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 GARDEN STATE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
- GARDEN STATE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (New Jersey) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,807,894 to it, the largest being HENRY M ROWAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($3,650,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GARDEN STATE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $3,807,894 in grants to GARDEN STATE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GARDEN STATE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
- HENRY M ROWAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GARDEN STATE 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 New Jersey. 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 12 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