South Carolina · Nonprofit
PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA
PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA (South Carolina) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,494,319 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($544,325). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Palmetto Council Inc Scouting America does
Mission
An affiliate of boy scouts of america, palmetto council provides services to young men and women ages 5-21. The council is dedicated to developing values and life skills in the spartanburg, york, chester, lancaster, union and cherokee counties of south carolina.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Providing support and service to adult leaders and youth members through character building youth development programs in 6 counties. Serving 4,180 scout members and 1,204 volunteer leaders, the council is deeply committed to helping every child develop lifelong skills and values, emphasizing such traits as respect, courage, self-reliance, service to others, good citizenship, duty to god, and mental and physical fitness. In 2024,74 young men and women earned scouting's highest rank, eagle scout, and palmetto council members provided over 10,587 service hours to the community.
$1,055,054 spentof which $17,710 as grants$140,650 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,055,054.
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 2017 to 2018, from $2.9M to $3.3M (+16%).
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 13% · 2021 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Justin Williams
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $135k → $288k.
7 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING 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
PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 62% · 2019 57% · 2020 27% · 2021 38% · 2022 34% · 2023 32% — 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
65% of PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
80% of PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA'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 $306k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.5M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
41%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING 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 PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA?
- PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA (South Carolina) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,494,319 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($544,325). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,494,319 in grants to PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $544,325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South 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