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American Legion Auxiliary Dept of Minnes

In the spirit of service, not self, the mission of the american legion auxiliary is to support the american legion and to honor the sacrifice of those who serve by enhancing the lives of our veterans, military, and their families, both at home and abroad.

$196k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Human Services$230kCommunity Improvement$145kPublic Benefit$93kHealth$43kPublic Safety & Disaster$23k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $122,908, the rows itemized in this filing. The $196,073 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $73,165 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
$21,195
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARMED FORCES CENTER$27,618
MINNESOTA VETERANS HOME$25,647
AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY FOUNDATION INC$25,480
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC$21,195
MINNESOTA AMERICAN LEGION AND AUXILIARY BRAIN SCIENCE FOUNDATION$6,955
LEGIONVILLE SCHOOL SAFETY PATROL TRAINING CNETER INC$5,570
AMERICAN LEGION FAMILY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION$5,428
AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY$5,015
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BELIEVET CANINE SERVICE PARTNERS: $21k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$513k · 8 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$513k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
-11%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHealthHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AL
    AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $92k · revenue +29%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $84k · revenue +28%
  • MA
    MINNESOTA AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY AND THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN
    4× · 2022–2025 · $27k · revenue ×12 · 35% of their budget

Funded once

  • BC
    BELIEVET CANINE SERVICE PARTNERS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $21k · revenue -11%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 9 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARMED FORCES CENTER: $93,092 · OtherARMED FORCES CENTERAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS: $92,298 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERSFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $83,907 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCMINNESOTA VETERANS HOME FAMILY COUNCIL-MINNEAPOLIS: $32,731 · OtherMINNESOTA VETERANS HOME FAMILY COUNCIL-MINNEAPOLISMINNESOTA AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY AND THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN: $26,618 · OtherMINNESOTA AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY AND THE SONS OF THE AMERICANLEGIONVILLE SCHOOL SAFETY PATROL TRAINING CENTER INC: $23,035 · OtherLEGIONVILLE SCHOOL SAFETY PATROL TRAINING CENTER INCAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY FNDN: $144,633 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY FNDNBELIEVET CANINE SERVICE PARTNERS INC: $20,588 · Human ServicesAMERICAN LEGION FAMILY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $16,382 · Health
Other$351,681Community Improvement$144,633Human Services$20,588Health$16,382

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY FNDN: $144,633 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS: $92,298 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $83,907 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY AND THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN: $26,618 over 4y, 35% of budgetLEGIONVILLE SCHOOL SAFETY PATROL TRAINING CENTER INC: $23,035 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetBELIEVET CANINE SERVICE PARTNERS INC: $20,588 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION FAMILY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $16,382 over 3y, 11% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Legion Auxiliary Dept of Minnes funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Legion Auxiliary Dept of Minnes. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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