Wd Boyce Council Boy Scouts of America Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
370661188
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Peoria, IL, USA
Phone
3096736136
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,093,599
Expenses
$2,033,148
Assets
$5,466,347
Liabilities
$337,478

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

33 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TONY LEES (PRESIDENT)
  • JON WILLIAMS (PAST PRESIDENT)
  • BENJAMIN BLUMENBERG (SCOUT EXECUTIVE/CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • BENJAMIN BLUMENBERG (SCOUT EXECUTIVE/CEO): $238,015 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of scouting america, w. D. Boyce council 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 law. This includes encouraging them to live by the scout oath and law, help others, and maintain physical, mental, and moral strength.

What it reported doing in 2025

The council works through community partners to deliver scouting programs that develop character, citizenship, personal fitness, and leadership skills. During 2025, the organization supported 155 units, serving 3,823 youth members working in partnership with 1,373 registered adult volunteers throughout 14 central-Illinois counties.ingersoll scout reservation is a year-round scout camp operated since 1964. The reservation comprises 646 acres of lakes, forest, and rivers near london mills, Illinois. Isr serves as an outdoor learning laboratory where scouts grow their leadership skills, connect with nature, and advance in scouting. The camp hosts resident and weekend programs serving nearly 15,000 youth and adults in 2025. Cache lake is a remote wilderness retreat in unorganized ontario canada. In 2025, nearly 200 scouts and adults journeyed to the canadian wilderness, many experiencing their first adventure outside the united states. More than 530 scouts received financial support through camperships, scholarships, and scoutreach programs. Scoutreach afterschool programs are specialized adaptations of the cub scout and scouts bsa programs to meet the unique needs of low-income students. Youth from inner-city and rural families take part in programming designed to build character, teach leadership skills and instill lifetime values through the use of financial assistance, and paid staff where consistent adult volunteer leadership is not otherwise available.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 91
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 85.2%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: $7.11 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.9%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.69; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.7%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 32 of 32 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $238K · 33 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 24/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.