· Public charity
American Legion Charities Inc
The American Legion Charities mission is to raise money to help support patriotic programs and services for veterans, youth, military personnel and communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE AMERICAN LEGION NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS | $3,000,000 |
| American Legion Endowment Fund Corporation | $1,556,175 |
| AMERICAN LEGION CHILDREN'S WELFARE FOUNDATION | $682,724 |
| American Legion National Emergency Fund | $527,233 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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 Endowment Fund Corporation7× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +547% · 73% of their budget
- CCCleveland County ALWS Baseball2× · 2020–2021 · $560k · revenue +36% · 35% of their budget
- ALAmerican Legion Charities Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $18k · revenue +904%
Funded once
- ALAmerican Legion Post 15one grant, 2021 · $56k · revenue -83%
- ALAmerican Legion Post 0092one grant, 2021 · $35k
- TBThe Baseball Club of Tacoma LLCone grant, 2023 · $31k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Promote Americanism, Law & Order, Comradeship
To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.
The American Legion is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization with great political influence perpetuated by its grass-roots involvement in the legislation process from local districts to Capitol Hill. Legionnaires' sense of obligation…
Serve Membership for US Military Wartime Years & Military Veteran Membership, Promote Community Improvement, Sponsor Local 4th of July Celebration, Youth Programs Legion Baseball.
Charitable Giving Program Services for Members of the American Legion
Support members of armed forces and veterans
To promote the principles of the national constitution of the american legion
To promote the social welfare of the community; to assist disabled war veterans and members of the united states armed forces; to carry on programs to perpetuate the memory of deceased veterans and members of the armed forces; to conduct…
Veterans Organization. Post #32 provides a restaurant, lounge, and meeting facilities to its post members and community as well as assist vetarans and their families.
To serve veterans of the united states of america.
The American Legion is committed to sponsoring programs for the youth of our communities promoting patriotism and honor a strong national security and continue devotion to veterans.
To provide financial assistance and to provide a place for all veterans, soldiers and their families to gather and meet.(see schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Legion Charities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Walleyes for Wounded Heroes Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
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- Who funds The American Legion National Emergency Fund ↗
- Who funds The American Legion Charities ↗
- Who funds The American Legion September 11 Memorial Scholarship Trust Fund ↗
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- Who funds American Legion Charities Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 201 OF THE AMERICAN LEGION INC ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT HARBOR POST 291 OF THE AMERICAN LEGION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 189 ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Legion Charities Inc 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.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
- Team River Runner Incorporated — 19% of income from government
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 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.
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