Boy Scouts of America

Analysis

Boy Scouts of America is a registered charity in United States, based in Findlay, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1965, 61 years ago. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Boy Scouts of America reported income of $138k and spending of $151k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $96k to $138k (+44%), an average of +9.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 150% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Boy Scouts of America sits at the 44th percentile: it is larger than about 44% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 45th percentile, and in the 45th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Los Angeles Ort Technical Institute ($138k), Council of University Directors of Clinical Psychology ($138k) and Sullivan- Hartogh- Davis Cedar Valley Honor Flight Inc ($138k).

At year end it held assets of $4.0m against liabilities of $400k, net assets of $3.6m.