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MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Illinois) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,255,931 to it, the largest being THE CFM FOUNDATION ($915,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.2M
Revenue FY2024
17
Funders on record
$1.3M
Grants received
$5.2M
Net assets
12/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%

Against its field

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.3M to it.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve3.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · 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 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($6.5M)2018 Revenue 106 ($1.5M) Expenses 89 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($6.5M)2019 Revenue 109 ($1.5M) Expenses 88 ($1.2M) Net assets 111 ($7.2M)2020 Revenue 77 ($1.1M) Expenses 72 ($1.0M) Net assets 115 ($7.4M)2021 Revenue 111 ($1.5M) Expenses 166 ($2.3M) Net assets 86 ($5.5M)2022 Revenue 83 ($1.1M) Expenses 86 ($1.2M) Net assets 79 ($5.1M)2023 Revenue 88 ($1.2M) Expenses 93 ($1.3M) Net assets 79 ($5.1M)2024 Revenue 89 ($1.2M) Expenses 85 ($1.2M) Net assets 80 ($5.2M)
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Revenue (89)Expenses (85)Net assets (80)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 20% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

38% of MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$34k
17
$200k
18
$250k
19
$42k
20
$812k
21
$65k
22
$97k
23
$20k
24
3.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $103k → $26k.

5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)9% 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: $299k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Adams County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA raised.

From the IRS filings of MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC 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

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

95% 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 MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA.

73%
largest funder
86%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 58% · 2019 76% · 2020 78% · 2021 75% · 2022 65% · 2023 38%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

50% of MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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

86% of MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

MT
IL
IA
VA
TX

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

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 17 funders put you typical among the 356 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 MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

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 Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 3%Fundraising 10%

Governance

40
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

80%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC 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 MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Illinois) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,255,931 to it, the largest being THE CFM FOUNDATION ($915,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,255,931 in grants to MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
THE CFM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $915,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC 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.

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 17funders 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