Illinois · Nonprofit
LINCOLN TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
LINCOLN TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $124,947 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF DECATUR AND MID IL ($50,422). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $0
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $125k
- Net assets
- $0
What Lincoln Trails Council Boy Scouts of America does
Mission
The council is devoted to promoting the ability of boys, young men, and women to do things for themselves and others, training them in scoutcraft, and teaching them patriotism, courage, and self-reliance. The council also prepares them to make ethical choices over their lifetimes and achieve their full potential using the methods which are now in common use by the boy scouts of america.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
Fun and learning in the outdoors, introduction to life skills, self-reliance, goal setting, building confidence, leadership and citizenship, character development and personal fitness through camping and other activities at boy scout camps.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.6M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $38k → $26k.
2 of 5 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 LINCOLN 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
LINCOLN TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 LINCOLN TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 56% · 2019 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of LINCOLN TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k 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.
Organizations like LINCOLN 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LINCOLN TRAILS COUNCIL 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 LINCOLN TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
- LINCOLN TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $124,947 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF DECATUR AND MID IL ($50,422). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LINCOLN TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $124,947 in grants to LINCOLN TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINCOLN TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
- UNITED WAY OF DECATUR AND MID IL is the largest funder on record, with $50,422 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINCOLN 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 Illinois. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 5 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