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American Legion Auxiliary Fndn

The american legion auxiliary foundation positively impacts the lives of our veterans, military, and their families by funding the programs of the american legion auxiliary today and for future generations.

$347k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$177k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$663kArts & Culture$477kCrime & Legal$123kYouth Development$74kHousing & Shelter$29kPublic Benefit$28kHealth$10k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $308,009, the rows itemized in this filing. The $346,904 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $38,895 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 $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $67k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $227k
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY$177,000
ALA DEPARTMENT OF ARIZONA$50,000
ALA DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA$27,275
ALA DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA$20,000
ALA DEPARTMENT OF WISCONSIN$10,200
ALA DEPARTMENT OF NEBRASKA$10,000
ALA DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA$7,622
ALA DEPARTMENT OF KANSAS$5,912
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ALA DEPARTMENT OF ARIZONA: $50k → 11%ALA GOLDEN VALLEY UNIT 22: $10k → 17%ALA DEPARTMENT OF DE UNIT 28: $10k → 10%ALA DEPARTMENT OF NEBRASKA: $10k → 13%ALA MINNESOTA UNIT 37: $9k → 5%ALA DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA: $27k → 14%ALA DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA: $20k → 10%ALA DEPARTMENT OF NY UNIT 1450: $10k → 7%ALA SHERBURNE UNIT 876: $10k → 12%ALA DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS: $18k → 10%ALA SOUTH CAROLINA UNIT 186: $10k → 13%ALA UNIT 37 ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%ALA DEPARTMENT OF WISCONSIN: $10k → 8%ALA DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA: $44k → 12%ALA DEPARTMENT OF OREGON: $25k → 8%ALA GEORGIA UNIT 137: $8k → 17%ALA DEPARTMENT OF CO UNIT 1: $10k → 12%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY: $177k → 16%ALA INDIANA UNIT 492: $9k → 19%ALA DEPARTMENT OF IL UNIT 867: $10k → 8%ALA DEPARTMENT OF IL UNIT 764: $34k → 9%ALA DEPARTMENT OF KY UNIT 113: $8k → 13%ALA DEPARTMENT OF KY: $8k → 14%ALA MAINE UNIT 132: $9k → 9%ALA UNIT 28 DELAWARE: $10k → 10%ALA DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA: $17k → 14%ALA DEPARTMENT OF WISCONSIN: $10k → 8%ALA DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA: $21k → 12%ALA DEPARTMENT OF OREGON: $25k → 8%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY: $158k → 16%ALA DEPARTMENT OF IL UNIT 764: $31k → 9%ALA DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA: $9k → 14%ALA DEPARTMENT OF OREGON: $25k → 8%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY: $65k → 16%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY: $45k → 16%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL: $45k → 16%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL: $40k → 16%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL: $40k → 16%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY: $25k → 16%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL: $23k → 16%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL: $23k → 16%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY: $20k → 16%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL: $17k → 16%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY: $14k → 16%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL: $12k → 16%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL: $54k → 16%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL: $25k → 16%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL: $23k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
WI
NY
OR
IN
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
DE
AZ
KS
SC
GA
TX
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 8 repeat orgs$293k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
21

Total granted

$1.1M
$249k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
-5%

Still filing today

75%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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
    9× · 2017–2025 · $805k · revenue +33%
  • AL
    AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY DEPARTMEN
    2× · 2018–2022 · $26k · revenue +112%
  • AL
    AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY - DEPARTMENT OF WISCONSIN
    2× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • AL
    AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY
    one grant, 2021 · $65k
  • AD
    ALA DEPARTMENT OF OREGON
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • AL
    AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Minnesota American Legion Auxiliary and the Sons of the American
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2
American Legion Auxiliary

501c19

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3
American Legion Auxiliary Post 413

To promote and support veterans issues and concerns.

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4
American Legion Auxiliary Department of Massachusetts Inc

To support the american legion in their efforts to help veterans and their families.

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5
American Legion

To provide entertainment and recreational activities for veterans and members of USAF, and to promote and provide activities dedicated to the meory of veterans and members of USAF.

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6
American Legion

Veterans Service Organization(VSO)

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7
American Legion

Activities used to support the activities of the american legion which serves military veterans and their familes.

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8
American Legion

To honor veterans and service members

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9
American Legion Auxiliary

The activities of the Department are based on its obligation to assist veterans. The Department support the initiation sponsorship and development of programs & services that enhance the lives of veterans active members of the military and…

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10
American Legion Post 0113

Service membership organization that provides support to our nations veterans and provides scholarships to area students.

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11
The American Legion Department of Minnesota

To support american legion members and their programs in minnesota. the american legion was chartered and incorporated by congress in 1919 as a patriotic veterans organization devoted to mutual helpfulness. it is the nation's largest…

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12
The American Legion Department of Oklahoma

To support veterans of the us armed forces and their families.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Legion Auxiliary National Headquarters; 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.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
3/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS: $805,103 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERSAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY POST 53: $76,592 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY POST 53AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY: $64,682 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY: $60,000 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY DEPT OF MINNES: $53,575 · OtherAmerican Legion Auxiliary Department of: $50,000 · Other+26 more: $273,777 · Other+26 moreAmerican Legion Auxiliary Department of California: $20,000 · Public Benefit
Other$1,383,729Public Benefit$20,000

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 NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS: $805,103 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY DEPT OF MINNES: $53,575 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetAmerican Legion Auxiliary Department of: $50,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY DEPARTMEN: $25,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY - DEPARTMENT OF WISCONSIN: $20,200 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican Legion Auxiliary Department of California: $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetAmerican Legion Auxiliary Unit 186: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY 500 HEADQUARTERS: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY - DEPARTMENT OF KENTUCKY INC: $8,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION AUXILLARY DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $7,622 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY DEPT OF KANSAS: $5,912 over 1y, 2.4% 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.

  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY POST 53 ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY DEPT OF MINNES ↗
  • Who funds American Legion Auxiliary Department of ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY DEPARTMEN ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY - DEPARTMENT OF WISCONSIN ↗
  • Who funds American Legion Auxiliary Department of California ↗
  • Who funds American Legion Auxiliary Unit 186 ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY 500 HEADQUARTERS ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY - DEPARTMENT OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGION AUXILLARY DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY DEPT OF KANSAS ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 33 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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