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GREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
GREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (New York) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,417,119 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($2,007,090). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 73
- Grants received
- $8.4M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Greater New York Councils Boy Scouts of America does
Mission
The greater new york councils, bsa has helped over five million young people become "prepared for life." the mission of the greater new york councils is to serve kids throughout all communities in new york city and to help them to prepare for success in school, career, and life. Scouting serves youth across many aspects of their life -- after school, weekend, and summer camp programming - providing them with a well-rounded network of supportive peers and adults. Scouting aims to develop the whole person through community service projects, field trips to new york city cultural attractions, camporees, s.t.e.m. Programs, family fun weekends, and much more. Scouting brings family and community together -- thus creating an ecosystem of support while also developing leaders of tomorrow.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Field services: programs provided close to 9,000 youth members, comprised of boys, girls, and nonbinary youth ages 6 through 20 in cub scouts, scouts bsa, scoutreach programs and sea scounts for low-income youth, venturing high-adventure programs, and exploring workforce preparedness programs. These positive and proven developmental opportunities for young people include leadership training, civic and community service opportunities, life skills development, and physical fitness training. Our youth and adults contribute over 119,000 hours of volunteer service annually. Our community is comprised of over 3,100 adult volunteer leaders, approximately 30 scoutreach staff and over 500 exploring volunteers- 100% of whom completed youth protection training.
$4,743,864 spent$192,996 earned by the program65% of program spendingCamping and activities: the council provides outdoor education, recreation and field trips to greater new york councils' properties including ten mile river scout reservation in narrowsburg, ny; alpine scout camp in alpine, nj; and william h. Pouch scout camp in staten island, ny, as well as at other locations. Year-round camping opportunities are provided to thousands of youths. We also offer 5,200 long-term sessions at summer camp annually. A high percentage of leaders see improvement in scouts' life skills after summer camp participation, including leadership, resilience, responsibility, and communication. And leaders agree that scouts are better prepared for the school year after summer camp. We provided about 350 camp trips to gnyc, youth and about 400 camp trips to out of council units.
$2,397,142 spent$2,777,812 earned by the program33% of program spendingCharter and national service fee: provides the council with the resources of scouting america national organization including online training, youth protection training, program development, including merit badge curricula, rank advancement support, membership and staffing support, liability insurance for our professionals, vounteers and chartered partners, as well as quality assurance standards and measurement.
$103,729 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,244,735.
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 2021 to 2022, from $24M to $21M (−14%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 17% · 2021 14% · 2022 1% · 2023 2% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of GREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
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
Saroya Friedman-Gonzalez
Scout executive/CEO/secretary
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $495k → $1.3M.
14 of 73 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $852k from 11 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Boy Scouts of America Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 73 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
GREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
69% 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 GREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 33% · 2019 41% · 2020 31% · 2021 14% · 2022 13% · 2023 31% — 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
40% of GREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
64% of GREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS 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 $3.0M that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
GREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 203 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 203 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding GREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- Department of Education$50k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS 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 York
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
83%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
- GREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (New York) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,417,119 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($2,007,090). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 73 organizations giving $8,417,119 in grants to GREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,007,090 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS 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 York. 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 73 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