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THREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127
THREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127 (Illinois) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $846,591 to it, the largest being THE RICH FOUNDATION ($124,089). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $847k
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What Three Fires Council Inc Boy Scouts of America #127 does
Mission
The mission of scouting 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 scout law.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our youth participate in exciting indoor/outdoor activities for boys and girls (ages 5-10) and for young men and women (ages 11-20). They are under the guidance of trained adult volunteers, who help them develop the life skills they need to become future leaders and active citizens in their communities. These skills include interdependence, ethical decision making, conflict resolution, self-esteem, literacy skills, values system. Personal growth, leadership development, sexual responsibility, positive peer relationships, service to others, mentoring skills, drug awareness education, teamwork, fitness, positive teen-adult relationships, school-to-work skills, emergency preparedness, character education, and many more. The three fires council's programs are classified as follows:lions - a school-year program for kindergarten (or 5-year old) boys and girls working with adult leaders to participate in activities, such as leadership development and learning about the community.tigers - a school-year program for first grade boys and girls and their adult leaders that stresses shared leadership, learning about the community, and understanding their family.cub scouts - a family and…
$2,487,682 spentof which $5,966 as grants$1,492,518 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,487,682.
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 2021 to 2022, from $12M to $10M (−18%).
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 19% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of THREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127’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 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
Ronald A Wentzell
Scout executive/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 13 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $105k → $77k.
15 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 THREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
THREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127 has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
64% 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 THREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 21% · 2019 29% · 2020 34% · 2021 31% · 2022 28% · 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
34% of THREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
55% of THREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127'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 $378k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $469k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
THREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127 runs a healthier operating margin 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 THREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127
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 Illinois
Nationally
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
84%
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 THREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127: 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 THREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127?
- THREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127 (Illinois) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $846,591 to it, the largest being THE RICH FOUNDATION ($124,089). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127 have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $846,591 in grants to THREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127?
- THE RICH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $124,089 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127 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 47 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