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NORTHEAST ILLINOIS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC
NORTHEAST ILLINOIS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC (Illinois) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,326,867 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($1,304,150). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.6M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Northeast Illinois Council Boy Scouts of America Inc 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.
Programs
Scout and other activities - provide scouting activities to young people and their families including pinewood derby races, den meetings, troop meetings, fishing derbies, boo camp, merit badge opportunity days, cubmobile races, klondike derbies, new scout fun days, and other activities including the sale of scouting america merchandise and returned merchandise.
$2,553,776 spent$56,259 earned by the program70% of program spendingCamping activities - provide outdoor camping facilities and programs to young people and families at our two camp properties,camp sol r crown and the ma-ka-ja-wan scout reservation. Camp related programs include hiking, biking, horsemanship, swimming, boating, fishing, pioneering, nature study, crafts, wilderness survival, field sports, range and target activities, and much more. Camps are held year-round, and include weekend camps, and long-term camps.
$729,650 spentof which $788,418 as grants$913,493 earned by the program20% of program spendingTraining activities - leadership training of both youth and adults. Wood badge, national youth leadership training and skills training.
$364,826 spent$18,456 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,648,252.
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 $7.0M to $10M (+48%).
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 9% · 2021 5% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Nick Roberts
Scout executive/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $43k → $649k.
12 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 NORTHEAST ILLINOIS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC’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
NORTHEAST ILLINOIS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 NORTHEAST ILLINOIS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 28% · 2019 38% · 2020 29% · 2021 57% · 2022 35% · 2023 95% — 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
36% of NORTHEAST ILLINOIS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
99% of NORTHEAST ILLINOIS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $28k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 NORTHEAST ILLINOIS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Wisconsin Camps of Neic Boy Scouts Inc · exempt
- Boy Scouts of America Dba 129 Wisconsin Boy Scouts Scnas · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHEAST ILLINOIS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC?
- NORTHEAST ILLINOIS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC (Illinois) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,326,867 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($1,304,150). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTHEAST ILLINOIS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $3,326,867 in grants to NORTHEAST ILLINOIS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHEAST ILLINOIS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $1,304,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHEAST ILLINOIS COUNCIL 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 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 19 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