National Boy Scouts of America Foundation
Irving, TX · EIN 75-2675978. Reported 132 grants totalling $48.9M to 60 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For National Boy Scouts of America Foundation, the IRS classifies it under youth development rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE O41) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 60 distinct organizations, with 71% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 65% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $13,175 and $112,475; the smallest was $5,050 and the largest $28.7M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boy Scouts of America | Irving, TX | $34.8M | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Indianapolis, IN | $2,894,997 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Hurst, TX | $1,258,300 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | South Bend, IN | $1,117,032 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Lititz, PA | $960,300 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Fort Wayne, IN | $938,712 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Bloomington, IN | $890,555 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Kokomo, IN | $635,517 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Chicago, IL | $560,750 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Evansville, IN | $527,133 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Atlanta, GA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Eagle, MI | $438,062 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Los Angeles, CA | $380,387 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | Boston, MA | $356,444 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boy Scouts of America | San Diego, CA | $313,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Davie, FL | $230,546 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Walton, NE | $191,890 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Sacramento, CA | $145,396 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Charlotte, NC | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Weston, WI | $123,872 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| New York Public Radio | New York, NY | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Van Nuys, CA | $95,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | New York, NY | $92,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Austin, TX | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc | Westfield, NY | $88,201 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Milford, CT | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Flowood, MS | $74,222 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Seminole Boosters Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Hattiesburg, MS | $55,484 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Pleasanton, CA | $54,702 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Baltimore, MD | $54,600 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Eau Claire, WI | $51,496 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Appleton, WI | $51,215 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Apo, AE | $46,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Apopka, FL | $43,170 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bay Lakes Council 635 | Appleton, WI | $42,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Weston, WI | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Raleigh, NC | $38,175 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Louisville, KY | $37,920 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Dundee Township Inc | Carpentersvle, IL | $35,532 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Meridian, MS | $34,764 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Natchez Trace Council | Tupelo, MS | $30,561 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Piedmont, CA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Honolulu, HI | $25,013 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Massapequa, NY | $24,550 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Waterbury, VT | $20,100 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Cleveland, OH | $18,989 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Kng of Prussa, PA | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Oakland, NJ | $16,867 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Santa Fe Trail Council 194 | Garden City, KS | $10,450 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Columbus, OH | $10,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Gastonia, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Guaynabo, PR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Monmouth University Inc | W Long Branch, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pushmataha Area Cncl #691 | Columbus, MS | $7,845 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Reno, NV | $6,460 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Madison, WI | $6,206 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hawk Mountain Council Inc Boy Scouts of America | Reading, PA | $5,950 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Grand Columbia Cncl No 614 | Yakima, WA | $5,068 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
37 of 60 (62%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Boy Scouts of America
Support Boy Scout programs - Crossroads of America Council 160
Support local council scouting - Morgan Stanley Global Charitable Gift Fund
Support scouting through general support for social and environmental causes through Impact Fund Trust - New York Public Radio
Support Scouting via general support of NYPR programs - Boys & Girls Clubs of Dundee Twp
Support Scouting via general support of programs through the Boys and Girls Club of Dundee
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 of 60 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 34 | $6,694,132 | $20,800 |
| 2022 | 31 | $2,626,128 | $32,357 |
| 2023 | 33 | $5,670,755 | $21,000 |
| 2024 | 34 | $33.9M | $30,107 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
74% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from National Boy Scouts of America Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 63 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1325 West Walnut Hill Lane, Irving, TX, 75038.
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