MattySchnides

Hello Scouters, I am new to this forum so please excuse the question if it has already been asked and answered. Recently our Troop had a mulch sale. After the mulch sale and after we paid off all of our expenses the troop raised close to $5000 in profits. This was our first real fundraiser in two years, due to COVID restrictions, and our troop desperately needed the money for equipment and summer camp stipends. I wanted to donate some of profit back to our Chartered Organization, the facility that let us use their parking lot for the day, and to the "Friends of Scouting" program. My intention was to give each entity 5% of the profits (around $250 to the CO, the warehouse and to the Friends of Scouting). I recently received a message from a district representative running the Friends of Scouting program to let me know that he was very disappointed in our contribution based off of the profit we obtained. He told me that typically all fundraisers give back to the District around 40% of the profits. I was shocked by this. I based our donation off of the previous donations given by our former Committee Chair who ran the same fundraiser two years ago. At that time the FoS program gladly accepted the donation. Although I am new to the troop, I am hard pressed to believe that with no involvement in our troop fundraiser whatsoever, a district rep would expect 40% of the profits. But I will admit, I am too new to Scouting and to the fundraising norms of this organization. So I have come here to this community to ask, what % of your fundraising profits do you typically give back to the FoS or to the districts? By the way, I am not talking about pop-corm sales or camp card sales because we do plan on doing that as a fundraiser in the fall. This is a fundraiser that was Troop and Scout led. Kind regards