Losing a huge portion of your membership because you embrace homosexuals put them in financial desperat
Straights
I suspect that they started admitting perverts and girls when the organization was clearly dying off; in my area (northeastern NJ) there is little enthusiasm for scouting, yet old troops have a lot of land.
This is a the result of demographics; the “replacement Americans” are very leery about sending their children overnight with unrelated adults - and most of the Americans themselves have no children to send.