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MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC

MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC (Iowa) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,174,338 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.

$2.1M
Revenue FY2024
36
Funders on record
$2.2M
Grants received
$13M
Net assets
20/36 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%

Against its field

MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC's revenue fell 17% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−64% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · 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 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 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($3.2M) Net assets 100 ($21M)2018 Revenue 90 ($2.3M) Expenses 91 ($2.9M) Net assets 94 ($19M)2019 Revenue 141 ($3.6M) Expenses 95 ($3.0M) Net assets 96 ($20M)2020 Revenue 94 ($2.4M) Expenses 100 ($3.1M) Net assets 97 ($20M)2021 Revenue 108 ($2.8M) Expenses 101 ($3.2M) Net assets 95 ($20M)2022 Revenue 83 ($2.1M) Expenses 180 ($5.7M) Net assets 72 ($15M)2023 Revenue 82 ($2.1M) Expenses 108 ($3.4M) Net assets 68 ($14M)2024 Revenue 83 ($2.1M) Expenses 110 ($3.5M) Net assets 62 ($13M)
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Revenue (83)Expenses (110)Net assets (62)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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,026 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$591k
17
$551k
18
$612k
19
$742k
20
$435k
21
$3.5M
22
$1.3M
23
$1.4M
24
0.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $477k → $122k.

10 of 36 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 36 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.

25%
largest funder
60%
top three
~7
effective funders

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

42% of MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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

93% of MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

MN
NY
IA
PA
CA
DE
TX

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

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Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $285k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 36 funders put you typical 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 MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF 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 Iowa

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 26%Fundraising 14%

Governance

47
board members
96%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,174,338 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 36 organizations giving $2,174,338 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.

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 36funders 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