Missouri · Nonprofit
Great Rivers Council - Boy Scouts of America
Great Rivers Council - Boy Scouts of America (Missouri) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $698,640 to it, the largest being VETERANS UNITED FOUNDATION ($250,403). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $699k
- Net assets
- $10M
What Great Rivers Council - Boy Scouts of America does
Mission
Provide scouting services
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Provide scouting and camping activities to youth in the central Missouri area.
$1,722,678 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,722,678.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $5.2M to $9.4M (+79%).
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.
38% of Great Rivers Council - Boy Scouts of America’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
John Fabsits
Executive Director/ Secretary
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $6k → $127k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 Great Rivers Council - 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
Great Rivers Council - Boy Scouts of America leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 Great Rivers Council - Boy Scouts of America.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 72% · 2022 72% · 2023 30% — 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
0% of Great Rivers Council - Boy Scouts of America's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 29% 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
76% of Great Rivers Council - Boy Scouts of America's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $275k 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.
Against its field
Great Rivers Council - Boy Scouts of America is better cushioned than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Great Rivers Council - 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Boy Scouts of America · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Great Rivers Council - Boy Scouts of America?
- Great Rivers Council - Boy Scouts of America (Missouri) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $698,640 to it, the largest being VETERANS UNITED FOUNDATION ($250,403). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Great Rivers Council - Boy Scouts of America have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $698,640 in grants to Great Rivers Council - Boy Scouts of America, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Great Rivers Council - Boy Scouts of America?
- VETERANS UNITED FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,403 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Great Rivers Council - Boy Scouts of America find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 17 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