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SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $843,269 to it, the largest being DIGNITY HEALTH ($201,840). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2019
$5.4M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$843k
Net assets
$15M
11/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What San Francisco Bay Area Council Bsa does

Mission

The council as an organization is devoted to promoting the ability of young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law.

As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.

Program

The council organizes various activities to promote character and leadership service to the community in young men and women, during 2019 total council membership was 9,232 youth members.scouts and leaders in the san francisco bay area council participated in a wide variety of activities in 2019. Our world class programs include cub scout and boy scouts summer camps and our innovative exploration camps. 3,134 volunteers work with our young people to develop great programs, 6,076 youth attended our camps. Community service is a critical part of the scouting program. 81,850 community service hours were performed by our scouts and our leaders. Our service included 85,274 pounds of food and clothing collected for the less fortunate in our community.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

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 ($5.2M) Expenses 100 ($5.9M) Net assets 100 ($16M)2018 Revenue 104 ($5.4M) Expenses 94 ($5.5M) Net assets 93 ($15M)2019 Revenue 103 ($5.4M) Expenses 106 ($6.2M) Net assets 94 ($15M)
201720182019
Revenue (103)Expenses (106)Net assets (94)

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 $18M to $16M (−6%).

$18M
$16M
$17M
201720182019
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

−$677k
’17
−$78k
’18
−$886k
’19
0.7
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.

201720182019
Listed574954
Joined·+2+10
No longer listed·105
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $326k → $25k.

8 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA’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

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

79% 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 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA.

24%
largest funder
49%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 58% · 2019 35% · 2020 25% · 2021 33% · 2022 61% — broadly stable.

“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

42% of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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 FY2022, 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

58% of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA's grant income comes from California funders.

CA
AZ
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $240k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 4%Fundraising 5%

Governance

40
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

91%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA?
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $843,269 to it, the largest being DIGNITY HEALTH ($201,840). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $843,269 in grants to SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA?
DIGNITY HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $201,840 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 16 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