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AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY FNDN
Support the american legion auxiliary programs nationwide through grantmaking and fundraising.
$219k
Granted FY2023
10
Grants
7
Communities
$45k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 100% of AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY FNDN’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
see part
2020
see part
2021
see part
2022
subgrant bingoupgradeveteranveterans
2023
veteransveteran
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 10 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $129k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
- AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY$45,000
- ALA DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA$43,590
- AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY$20,000
- ALA SOUTH CAROLINA UNIT 186$10,000
- ALA DEPARTMENT OF WISCONSIN$10,000
- ALA INDIANA UNIT 492$9,317
- ALA MAINE UNIT 132$9,274
- ALA MINNESOTA UNIT 37$9,180
- ALA GEORGIA UNIT 137$8,180
- ALA DISTRICT 6 NEW YORK$5,880
02The need
04
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 76% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$535k · 5 repeat orgs$227k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
5
13
Total granted
$535k
$165k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+20%
-6%
Still filing today
80%
15%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ALAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL6× · 2018–2023 · $368k · revenue 0%
- AUALA UNIT 53 WISCONSIN2× · 2022–2023 · $71k · revenue -118%
- ADALA DEPARTMENT OF OREGON2× · 2018–2020 · $50k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- ADALA DEPARTMENT OF IL UNIT 764one grant, 2021 · $65k
- ADALA DEPARTMENT OF CO UNIT 1one grant, 2019 · $10k
- AUALA UNIT 37 ILLINOISone grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
1
Minnesota American Legion Auxiliary and
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2
American Legion
Support veterans and active duty military and their families, promote Americanism is the community.
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3
American Legion Post 33
To provide assistance to needy veterans and their families
Public Benefit
4
American Legion Auxiliary
To aid the American Legion to carry out Americanism and welfare programs
Public Benefit
5
American Legion
Provide service to our veterans, their families and their communities.
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6
American Legion Auxiliary Dept of Connecticut Inc
Support the american legion
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7
American Legion Auxiliary Department of Colorado
We support and advocate for veterans educate our citizens mentor youth and promote patriotism good citizenship peace and security.
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8
American Legion
Support veterans & their family
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9
American Legion Auxiliary Department of Ohio
The activities of the Department are based on its obligation to assist veterans. The Department supports the initiation, sponsorship and develpmnent of programs and services that enhance the lives of veterans, active members of the…
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10
American Legion
To enhance the well-being of america's veterans, their families, our military, and our communities by devotion to mutual helpfulness.
Public Benefit
11
American Legion Department of
To uphold and defend the constitution of the united states of america.
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12
Amvets American Veterans Department
Public Benefit
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Legion Auxiliary Departmen and the most unlike its peers is American Legion Auxiliary Unit 186. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
4%
1/25
the rest of the field
11%
206,164/1,819,540
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$761,402
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY FNDN funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ALA DEPARTMENT OF OREGON.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~45 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 930112193 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ALA DEPARTMENT OF OREGON, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 45 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to American Legion Auxiliary Fndn?
Find your warmest path to American Legion Auxiliary Fndn through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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