South Dakota · Nonprofit
SIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC
SIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC (South Dakota) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,004,965 to it, the largest being SIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY INC ($2,060,287). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Sioux Council Boy Scouts of America Inc 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 law.scout oath:on my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to god and my country; to obey the scout law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.scout law:a scout is...trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The sioux council boy scouts of america delivers the nation's foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership training in the eastern two-thirds of south dakota, southwest minnesota and lyon county, iowa. Scouting is a program for young people emphasizing family, community, and character education. With the support of positive adult role models, youth are exposed to a variety of activities that stimulate productive use of time, bonding with family and peers, strong connections to citizenship opportunities and positive values.in 2025, sioux council served nearly 2,500 registered participants.statistics prove that individuals who were scouts for five years are more likely than those who have never been in scouts to graduate high school (91%),earn college degrees (35%), have higher average household incomes ($80,000) and own their own homes (74%). As youth, scouts are taught to live by a code of conduct exemplified in the 12 points of the scout law, and they continue to live by these laws in adulthood.
$1,774,175 spentof which $24,280 as grants$131,120 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,774,175.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.1M to $7.8M (+54%).
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 5% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Melissa Stricherz
CEO/scout executive
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $301k → $612k.
4 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 SIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. 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
SIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 SIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 79% · 2019 74% · 2020 43% · 2021 41% · 2022 35% · 2023 39% — 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
57% of SIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
74% of SIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC's grant income comes from South Dakota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $667k 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.
Organizations like SIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC
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 Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 SIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: 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 SIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC?
- SIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC (South Dakota) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,004,965 to it, the largest being SIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY INC ($2,060,287). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $4,004,965 in grants to SIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC?
- SIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,060,287 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 31 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing