Illinois · Nonprofit
PRAIRIELANDS COUNCIL 117 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
PRAIRIELANDS COUNCIL 117 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $301,840 to it, the largest being BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA PRAIRELANDS COUNCIL ($160,084). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $888k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $302k
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Prairielands Council 117 Boy Scouts of America does
Mission
Boy scout council is devoted to promoting the ability of boys, young men, and women to do things for themselves and others, training them in scoutcraft, and teach them patriotism, courage, and self-reliance. 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 the boy scouts of america.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The council services others by helping to instill values in young people and prepare them to make ethical choices during their lifetime and achieve their full potential. Our youth participate in exciting indoor/outdoor activities for boys (ages 7-14) and for young men and women (ages 14-20).
$678,258 spent$171,620 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $678,258.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.2M to $2.8M (−13%).
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 16% · 2021 14% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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 held at 2 funders, grant income fell $110k → $8k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 PRAIRIELANDS COUNCIL 117 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
PRAIRIELANDS COUNCIL 117 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 PRAIRIELANDS COUNCIL 117 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 81% · 2019 81% · 2020 83% · 2021 100% · 2022 59% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of PRAIRIELANDS COUNCIL 117 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
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 PRAIRIELANDS COUNCIL 117 BOY SCOUTS OF 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 PRAIRIELANDS COUNCIL 117 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
- PRAIRIELANDS COUNCIL 117 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $301,840 to it, the largest being BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA PRAIRELANDS COUNCIL ($160,084). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRAIRIELANDS COUNCIL 117 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $301,840 in grants to PRAIRIELANDS COUNCIL 117 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRAIRIELANDS COUNCIL 117 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA?
- BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA PRAIRELANDS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $160,084 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRAIRIELANDS COUNCIL 117 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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