Boy Scouts of America

Analysis

Boy Scouts of America is a registered charity in United States, based in Dallas, TX. 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 $2.5m and spending of $3.0m, spending 121% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $809k to $2.5m (+205%), an average of +32% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 559%. Over the whole period it spent 118% 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 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Young Mens Christian Association ($2.5m), Crisis Center of West Texas ($2.5m) and Lebanon County Christian Ministries ($2.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.4% of the total. At year end it held assets of $60.1m against liabilities of $2.9m, net assets of $57.3m.