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LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC

LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC (Ohio) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,251,061 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,107,300). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$5.4M
Revenue FY2024
50
Funders on record
$2.3M
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
25/50 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%

Against its field

LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $2.3M to it.

Operating margin−35% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,925 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($6.0M) Expenses 100 ($6.6M) Net assets 100 ($18M)2019 Revenue 106 ($6.4M) Expenses 103 ($6.8M) Net assets 104 ($19M)2020 Revenue 85 ($5.1M) Expenses 75 ($5.0M) Net assets 116 ($21M)2021 Revenue 64 ($3.8M) Expenses 61 ($4.0M) Net assets 117 ($21M)2022 Revenue 71 ($4.2M) Expenses 63 ($4.2M) Net assets 66 ($12M)2023 Revenue 79 ($4.7M) Expenses 71 ($4.7M) Net assets 70 ($13M)2024 Revenue 90 ($5.4M) Expenses 110 ($7.2M) Net assets 65 ($12M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (90)Expenses (110)Net assets (65)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

63% of LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,026 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$628k
18
$472k
19
$106k
20
$218k
21
$34k
22
$49k
23
$1.9M
24
1.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $123k → $144k.

15 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)79% 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 LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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

LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

85% 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 LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC.

49%
largest funder
66%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 32% · 2019 33% · 2020 18% · 2021 37% · 2022 23% · 2023 21%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

26% of LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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

79% of LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC'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 $463k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Ohio funders.

IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
NC
LA

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

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 50 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 LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC

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 Ohio

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 6%Fundraising 7%

Governance

41
board members
95%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

54%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC?
LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC (Ohio) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,251,061 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,107,300). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC have?
IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $2,251,061 in grants to LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,107,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 50funders 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