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OLD HICKORY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

OLD HICKORY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (North Carolina) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,295,677 to it, the largest being The Winston-Salem Foundation ($378,123). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.7M
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$5.2M
19/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Old Hickory Council Inc Boy Scouts of America does

Mission

The mission of the boy scouts of america is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and scout law.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Traditional scouting: the old hickory council, bsa provides program support, facilities, organized activities, and other related services for scouting in eight counties of northwest north carolina. Total registered youth in traditional scouting, cub scouts, venturers and explorers in 2025 was approximately 2,487. Year-round programs are provided to boys and girls ages 6-20. All aspects of the program focus on citizenship, character and fitness. Approximately 5,008 scouts and leaders from all over the southeast and the old hickory council area participated in summer camp 2025 at camp raven knob. 99 scouts earned the rank of eagle scout in 2025. Scouts provided over 18,208 hours of community service throughout the councils northwest nc territory. Scouts collected 40,996 lbs. Of food during the annual scouting for food drive to help feed hungry families throughout the eight-county area.

    $2,856,600 spentof which $8,621 as grants$1,983,412 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,856,600.

02The 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 ($3.0M) Expenses 100 ($3.0M) Net assets 100 ($6.9M)2018 Revenue 98 ($2.9M) Expenses 102 ($3.1M) Net assets 96 ($6.6M)2019 Revenue 96 ($2.9M) Expenses 103 ($3.1M) Net assets 95 ($6.5M)2020 Revenue 52 ($1.6M) Expenses 84 ($2.5M) Net assets 82 ($5.7M)2021 Revenue 116 ($3.5M) Expenses 85 ($2.6M) Net assets 78 ($5.3M)2022 Revenue 87 ($2.6M) Expenses 129 ($3.9M) Net assets 72 ($5.0M)2023 Revenue 95 ($2.8M) Expenses 101 ($3.1M) Net assets 71 ($4.9M)2024 Revenue 123 ($3.7M) Expenses 113 ($3.4M) Net assets 76 ($5.2M)
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Revenue (123)Expenses (113)Net assets (76)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.8M to $5.2M (−22%).

$7.2M
$7.0M
$6.9M
$6.3M
$6.8M
$5.2M
$5.1M
$5.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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: 2021 16% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$41k
’17
−$166k
’18
−$251k
’19
−$989k
’20
$889k
’21
−$1.3M
’22
−$214k
’23
$251k
’24
4.6
months of
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed1715131344414350
Joined·+2+3+0+33+14+3+20
No longer listed·450217113
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $146k → $192k.

9 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 OLD HICKORY 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

OLD HICKORY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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

63% 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 OLD HICKORY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA.

29%
largest funder
51%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 20% · 2019 57% · 2020 29% · 2021 45% · 2022 59% · 2023 30% — 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

53% of OLD HICKORY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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

77% of OLD HICKORY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

VA
NC
TX

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $524k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like OLD HICKORY COUNCIL INC 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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 5%Fundraising 3%

Governance

50
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

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Questions and answers

Who funds OLD HICKORY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
OLD HICKORY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (North Carolina) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,295,677 to it, the largest being The Winston-Salem Foundation ($378,123). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OLD HICKORY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,295,677 in grants to OLD HICKORY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OLD HICKORY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
The Winston-Salem Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $378,123 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OLD HICKORY 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 North Carolina. 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 26 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