Minnesota · Nonprofit
VOYAGEURS AREA COUNCIL
VOYAGEURS AREA COUNCIL (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $263,966 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($60,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $319k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $264k
- Net assets
- $0
What Voyageurs Area Council does
Mission
To engage families in character development through leadership, citizenship, and physical and mental wellness within a safe environment led by trained leaders.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Organization merged with northern star council boy scouts of america as of december 1, 2024, and northern star is the surviving organization. Voyageurs was dissolved as of december 1, 2024.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Traditional scouting - in the bsa, scouting is considered to be one movement with three main programs. Over 1,572 served, through 99 cub scout packs, scout bsa troops or venturing crews. Cub scouting is the largest of the three programs, available to boys and girls from kindergarten through fifth-grade or 5 to 10 1/2 years. The program is designed to pursue the aims of character, citizenship training, and personal fitness. Cub scouting is divided into age-based levels of lions, tiger cubs, wolf cubs, bear cubs, and webelos scouts. Scouts bsa is the flagship program of the bsa for boys and girls ages 10 1/2 to 18. It uses outdoor activities such as camping, aquatics and hiking to achieve the aims of character, citizenship, and personal fitness training. Venturing is a program for young men and women 14 (who have completed the eighth grade) through 20 years of age. Venturing's purpose is to provide positive experiences to help young people mature and to prepare them to become responsible and caring adults. The organization dissolved as of december 1st, 2024.
$501,125 spentof which $760 as grants$58,270 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $501,125.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $0 (−100%).
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: 2021 11% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $50k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 VOYAGEURS AREA COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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
VOYAGEURS AREA COUNCIL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders 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 VOYAGEURS AREA COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 47% · 2020 32% · 2021 52% · 2022 68% · 2023 38% — 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
75% of VOYAGEURS AREA COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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 VOYAGEURS AREA COUNCIL's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k 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.
Organizations like VOYAGEURS AREA COUNCIL
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VOYAGEURS AREA COUNCIL: 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 VOYAGEURS AREA COUNCIL?
- VOYAGEURS AREA COUNCIL (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $263,966 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($60,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VOYAGEURS AREA COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $263,966 in grants to VOYAGEURS AREA COUNCIL, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOYAGEURS AREA COUNCIL?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOYAGEURS AREA COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 11 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