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MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,508,897 to it, the largest being TRUST FOR THE BENEFIT OF MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL ($950,097). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Minsi Trails Council #502 Boy Scouts of America does
Mission
To prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Comprehensive youth development - principal group activity includes various camping programsour success as a youth-serving organization is best measured by the success of our scouts. During 2023, we had 143 scouts achieve their eagle scout rank who contributed 26,923 hours on service projects in their local communities. Overall, minsi trails council scouts achieved 79,651 community service hours in 2023. That's service; that's achievement; and that's success.minsi trails council serves more than 4,250 youth in six counties carbon, lehigh, luzerne, monroe and northampton counties in pennsylvania and warren county in new jersey. Other key accomplishments include: over earned 7,600 merit badges during the year nearly 2,500 scouts camped in our three nationally accredited council camps. Scouts collected over 86,000 pounds of food during our annual scouting for food campaign to help fill local food banksscouting is about building character, instilling leadership skills, creating engaged citizenship, and achieving success for youth while having fun in a great outdoor experience. Programs will either remain single-gender with separate packs, dens, or troops for boys and girls or combined…
$3,100,821 spentof which $5,015 as grants$1,530,985 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,100,821.
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 2023 to 2024, from $8.6M to $5.7M (−34%).
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 14% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 19 funders, grant income fell $523k → $250k.
9 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $982k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Minsi Trails Council Boy Scouts of America Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA raised.
From the IRS filings of MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 27% · 2019 36% · 2020 34% · 2021 39% · 2022 48% · 2023 44% — 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.
How long its funders stay
47% of MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
98% of MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $363k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Trust for the Benefit of Minsi Trails Trust Aka Weygadt Trust · exempt
- Minsi Trails Council Boy Scouts of America Trust · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 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 MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
- MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,508,897 to it, the largest being TRUST FOR THE BENEFIT OF MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL ($950,097). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $3,508,897 in grants to MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
- TRUST FOR THE BENEFIT OF MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $950,097 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 48 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