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ISTROUMA AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

ISTROUMA AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Louisiana) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $876,892 to it, the largest being BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION ($615,617). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1.1M
Revenue FY2024
19
Funders on record
$877k
Grants received
$3.8M
Net assets
9/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 64%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($3.2M)2018 Revenue 102 ($1.8M) Expenses 90 ($1.6M) Net assets 105 ($3.4M)2019 Revenue 110 ($1.9M) Expenses 95 ($1.7M) Net assets 125 ($4.0M)2020 Revenue 127 ($2.2M) Expenses 75 ($1.4M) Net assets 142 ($4.6M)2021 Revenue 65 ($1.1M) Expenses 74 ($1.4M) Net assets 135 ($4.4M)2022 Revenue 51 ($903k) Expenses 63 ($1.2M) Net assets 128 ($4.1M)2023 Revenue 57 ($1.0M) Expenses 68 ($1.2M) Net assets 120 ($3.9M)2024 Revenue 64 ($1.1M) Expenses 67 ($1.2M) Net assets 117 ($3.8M)
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Revenue (64)Expenses (67)Net assets (117)

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 5% · 2021 13%. 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$71k
17
$153k
18
$199k
19
$861k
20
$220k
21
$250k
22
$237k
23
$115k
24
1.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $81k → $84k.

5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)75% 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 ISTROUMA AREA COUNCIL OF 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

ISTROUMA AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

93% 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 ISTROUMA AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA.

70%
largest funder
85%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 60% · 2019 89% · 2020 95% · 2021 78% · 2022 98% · 2023 45%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

14% of ISTROUMA AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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

75% of ISTROUMA AREA COUNCIL OF 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 $215k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from Louisiana funders.

MA
MO
VA
NC
LA
TX

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

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Louisiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $662k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like ISTROUMA AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Louisiana

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 9%Fundraising 13%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

93%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ISTROUMA AREA COUNCIL OF 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 ISTROUMA AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
ISTROUMA AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Louisiana) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $876,892 to it, the largest being BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION ($615,617). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ISTROUMA AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $876,892 in grants to ISTROUMA AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ISTROUMA AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $615,617 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ISTROUMA AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing