Iowa · Nonprofit
MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC
MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC (Iowa) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,189,932 to it, the largest being GOLF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ($540,100). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Mid-Iowa Council of Boy Scouts of America Inc does
Mission
To sponsor and offer boys and young adults, residing within its jurisdiction, an opportunity to participate in the boy scouts program in accordance with the purpose of the boy scouts movement in the united states.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Camping and other scout activities benefitted 4,412 youth in all program phases during the year.
$2,122,188 spent$880,877 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,122,188.
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.
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 $20M to $16M (−20%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 14% · 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Dean Hemphill
District chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $477k → $122k.
10 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
82% 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 MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 40% · 2019 41% · 2020 29% · 2021 38% · 2022 45% · 2023 41% — 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
41% of MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
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
93% of MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $285k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC's revenue fell 17% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF 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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC?
- MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC (Iowa) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,189,932 to it, the largest being GOLF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ($540,100). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $2,189,932 in grants to MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC?
- GOLF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES is the largest funder on record, with $540,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF 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 Iowa. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 37 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