Missouri · Nonprofit
PONY EXPRESS COUNCIL-BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
PONY EXPRESS COUNCIL-BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Missouri) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $802,150 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST JOSEPH ($691,445). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $802k
- Net assets
- $6.1M
What Pony Express Council-Boy Scouts of America does
Mission
Prepare young people in northwest missouri and northeast kansas to lead effectively and make ethical choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The council is a not-for-profit organization devoted to promoting, within the territory covered by the charter from time to time granted it by scouting america and in accordance with the congressional charter, bylaws, rules & regs, the scouting program, the ability of youth to do things for themselves and others, training them in scoutcraft, and teaching them patriotism, courage, self-reliance, and kindred virtues. The council also prepares them to make ethical choices over their lifetimes and achieve their full potential using the methods which are now in common use by scouting america. The council provided 6 weeks of summer camp. They had 883 youth and 443 adults attend. They had one weekend each of webelos & cub resident camp of which 177 youth and adults attended. There were 4 shooting sports events held in 2025 with a total of approximately 235 participants. The council delivered the scouting program to 1,306 youth members in 2025.
$1,595,189 spent$705,008 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,595,189.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $7.8M to $6.2M (−20%).
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 10% · 2021 7% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of PONY EXPRESS COUNCIL-BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income fell $105k → $73k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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: $843k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Bsa Trust Pony Express Council). These are real filings, and they are not money PONY EXPRESS COUNCIL-BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA raised.
From the IRS filings of PONY EXPRESS COUNCIL-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
PONY EXPRESS COUNCIL-BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 PONY EXPRESS COUNCIL-BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 88% · 2019 83% · 2020 90% · 2021 92% · 2022 100% · 2023 68% — 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
29% of PONY EXPRESS COUNCIL-BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
94% of PONY EXPRESS COUNCIL-BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
PONY EXPRESS COUNCIL-BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA is better cushioned than half of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PONY EXPRESS COUNCIL-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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Bsa Trust-Pony Express Council · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PONY EXPRESS COUNCIL-BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
- PONY EXPRESS COUNCIL-BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Missouri) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $802,150 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST JOSEPH ($691,445). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PONY EXPRESS COUNCIL-BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $802,150 in grants to PONY EXPRESS COUNCIL-BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PONY EXPRESS COUNCIL-BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST JOSEPH is the largest funder on record, with $691,445 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PONY EXPRESS COUNCIL-BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 15 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