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HOOSIER TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

HOOSIER TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Indiana) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,570,848 to it, the largest being NATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ($955,076). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$3.4M
Funders on record
27
Grants received
$2.6M
Net assets
$5.2M
17/27 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%
01What it does

What Hoosier Trails Council Boy Scouts of America does

Mission

It is the mission of the boy scouts of america 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.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Youth service organization that focuses upon implementing the programs of the boy scouts of america in 18 counties in south-central indiana, aiming to provide youth with leadership training, promoting physical fitness, and values-based education serving approximately 6,000 youths annually.

    $1,198,494 spentof which $3,780 as grants$554,901 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,198,494.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($4.2M)2018 Revenue 83 ($1.4M) Expenses 99 ($1.4M) Net assets 88 ($3.7M)2019 Revenue 93 ($1.5M) Expenses 99 ($1.4M) Net assets 97 ($4.1M)2020 Revenue 69 ($1.1M) Expenses 80 ($1.2M) Net assets 101 ($4.2M)2021 Revenue 83 ($1.4M) Expenses 106 ($1.5M) Net assets 99 ($4.2M)2022 Revenue 128 ($2.1M) Expenses 147 ($2.1M) Net assets 87 ($3.6M)2023 Revenue 76 ($1.3M) Expenses 122 ($1.8M) Net assets 75 ($3.2M)2024 Revenue 108 ($1.8M) Expenses 114 ($1.6M) Net assets 79 ($3.3M)2025 Revenue 206 ($3.4M) Expenses 113 ($1.6M) Net assets 125 ($5.2M)
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Revenue (206)Expenses (113)Net assets (125)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $3.5M to $5.4M (+56%).

$4.5M
$4.2M
$5.0M
$4.8M
$4.6M
$4.1M
$3.8M
$3.5M
$5.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 12% · 2021 10%. 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 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$203k
’17
−$48k
’18
$102k
’19
−$28k
’20
−$160k
’21
−$26k
’22
−$505k
’23
$135k
’24
$1.8M
’25
13
months of
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

Randall Saunders

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

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Listed404848434140402933
Joined·+9+10+8+5+7+6+5+6
No longer listed·11013786162
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $402k → $562k.

9 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 HOOSIER TRAILS 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

HOOSIER TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

86% 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 HOOSIER TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA.

37%
largest funder
71%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 26% · 2019 39% · 2020 24% · 2021 27% · 2022 45% · 2023 80% — 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

38% of HOOSIER TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

69% of HOOSIER TRAILS COUNCIL 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 $795k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from Indiana funders.

IN
OH
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like HOOSIER TRAILS 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 Indiana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 15%Fundraising 12%

Governance

32
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

82%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Boys Scouts of America - National Office · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds HOOSIER TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
HOOSIER TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Indiana) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,570,848 to it, the largest being NATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ($955,076). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HOOSIER TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $2,570,848 in grants to HOOSIER TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOOSIER TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
NATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $955,076 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOOSIER TRAILS 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 Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 27 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