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LEATHERSTOCKING COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC

LEATHERSTOCKING COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $281,320 to it, the largest being A LINDSAY & OLIVE B O'CONNOR FOUNDATION INC ($81,990). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.2M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$281k
Net assets
$8.6M
5/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Leatherstocking Council of the Boy Scouts of America Inc does

Mission

The mission of the boy scouts of america is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the scout oath and law. Trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, trifty, brave, clean, and reverent.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Services and facilities provided to scout and volunteers encompassing leadership training and various other programs.

    $1,531,592 spentof which $38,515 as grants$324,452 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,531,592.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($8.0M)2018 Revenue 76 ($1.6M) Expenses 108 ($1.7M) Net assets 96 ($7.7M)2019 Revenue 88 ($1.9M) Expenses 103 ($1.7M) Net assets 105 ($8.4M)2020 Revenue 101 ($2.1M) Expenses 80 ($1.3M) Net assets 119 ($9.6M)2021 Revenue 77 ($1.6M) Expenses 158 ($2.5M) Net assets 111 ($8.9M)2022 Revenue 62 ($1.3M) Expenses 116 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($8.0M)2023 Revenue 209 ($4.4M) Expenses 326 ($5.2M) Net assets 96 ($7.7M)2024 Revenue 56 ($1.2M) Expenses 105 ($1.7M) Net assets 101 ($8.1M)2025 Revenue 55 ($1.2M) Expenses 107 ($1.7M) Net assets 107 ($8.6M)
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Revenue (55)Expenses (107)Net assets (107)Peer revenue range

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 $11M to $8.5M (−19%).

$8.4M
$8.8M
$9.2M
$10M
$11M
$8.5M
$8.3M
$8.4M
$8.8M
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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 6% · 2021 7% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

17% of LEATHERSTOCKING COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,035 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$517k
’17
−$123k
’18
$209k
’19
$861k
’20
−$908k
’21
−$551k
’22
−$799k
’23
−$496k
’24
−$555k
’25
4.4
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

Raymond Eschenbach

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed354537313131303031
Joined·+12+9+3+0+7+0+9+9
No longer listed·217907198
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $8k → $97k.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 LEATHERSTOCKING COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC’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

LEATHERSTOCKING COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 LEATHERSTOCKING COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC.

29%
largest funder
83%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 57% · 2019 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 51% · 2022 56% · 2023 33% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of LEATHERSTOCKING COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

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

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’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

Against its field

LEATHERSTOCKING COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−48% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like LEATHERSTOCKING COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 6%Fundraising 5%

Governance

30
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

61%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Otschodela Council Inc - Bsa Trust · exempt
  • Otschodela Council Inc - Bsa Trust · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds LEATHERSTOCKING COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC?
LEATHERSTOCKING COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $281,320 to it, the largest being A LINDSAY & OLIVE B O'CONNOR FOUNDATION INC ($81,990). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LEATHERSTOCKING COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $281,320 in grants to LEATHERSTOCKING COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEATHERSTOCKING COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC?
A LINDSAY & OLIVE B O'CONNOR FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $81,990 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEATHERSTOCKING COUNCIL OF THE 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 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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