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NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC

NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC (North Dakota) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,326,547 to it, the largest being MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY ($348,122). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.1M
Revenue FY2024
32
Funders on record
$1.3M
Grants received
$15M
Net assets
20/32 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.5M) Expenses 100 ($3.7M) Net assets 100 ($16M)2018 Revenue 75 ($3.4M) Expenses 89 ($3.2M) Net assets 97 ($15M)2019 Revenue 90 ($4.0M) Expenses 89 ($3.2M) Net assets 99 ($16M)2020 Revenue 76 ($3.4M) Expenses 87 ($3.2M) Net assets 102 ($16M)2021 Revenue 82 ($3.7M) Expenses 79 ($2.9M) Net assets 109 ($17M)2022 Revenue 68 ($3.0M) Expenses 81 ($2.9M) Net assets 92 ($15M)2023 Revenue 92 ($4.1M) Expenses 90 ($3.3M) Net assets 98 ($15M)2024 Revenue 69 ($3.1M) Expenses 95 ($3.5M) Net assets 95 ($15M)
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Revenue (69)Expenses (95)Net assets (95)

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 28% · 2022 21%. 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.

$837k
17
$130k
18
$815k
19
$256k
20
$797k
21
$98k
22
$862k
23
$384k
24
3.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $351k → $97k.

7 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)12% 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 NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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

NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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

48% 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 NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC.

26%
largest funder
64%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 40% · 2019 56% · 2020 37% · 2021 37% · 2022 40% · 2023 67%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

48% of NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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 NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC's grant income comes from North Dakota funders.

ND
MN
IL
WI
SD
CT
VA
TX

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

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North Dakota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $159k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 32 funders put you well-backed 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.

Government funding NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $215k on record.

Federal$215k
grants $0contracts $215k
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26
Top agencies
  • Department of Defense$215k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE 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 North Dakota

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 5%Fundraising 5%

Governance

47
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

58%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Nlc Boy Scouts of America Endowment Trust Fund · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC?
NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC (North Dakota) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,326,547 to it, the largest being MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY ($348,122). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC have?
IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,326,547 in grants to NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC?
MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $348,122 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE 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 North Dakota. 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 32funders 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