How much does American Legion Charities Inc give?

American Legion Charities Inc reported 4 grants totaling $5,866,680 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does American Legion Charities Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (75%), Public Safety & Disaster (8%), Philanthropy (5%).

Who are American Legion Charities Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The American Legion ($7.3M), American Legion Endowment Fund Corporation ($2.8M), American Legion Child Welfare Foundation ($2.0M).

Does American Legion Charities Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as American Legion Charities Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is American Legion Charities Inc based?

American Legion Charities Inc is based in IN.

American Legion Charities Inc

American Legion Charities Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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.

$5.9M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$3.0M

Largest

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 2024.

Human Services$12MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.4MPhilanthropy$802kEducation$637kRecreation & Sports$631kMembership Benefit$453kPublic Benefit$82kHealth$43kOther$0

02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,556,175

Median grant

States reached

$8.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$16M · 12 repeat orgs$396k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$16M

$396k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-24%

+1%

Still filing today

75%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureOther

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 Endowment Fund Corporation
7× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +547% · 73% of their budget
CC
Cleveland County ALWS Baseball
2× · 2020–2021 · $560k · revenue +24% · 35% of their budget
AL
American Legion Charities Inc
2× · 2018–2019 · $18k · revenue +904%

Funded once

AL
American Legion Post 15
one grant, 2021 · $56k · revenue -73%
AL
American Legion Post 0092
one grant, 2021 · $35k
TB
The Baseball Club of Tacoma LLC
one grant, 2023 · $31k

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.

American Legion

Promote Americanism, Law & Order, Comradeship

Public Benefit

American Legion Department of Michigan

To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.

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American Legion Post 30

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…

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American Legion

Serve Membership for US Military Wartime Years & Military Veteran Membership, Promote Community Improvement, Sponsor Local 4th of July Celebration, Youth Programs Legion Baseball.

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American Legion

Charitable Giving Program Services for Members of the American Legion

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American Legion Post 213

Support members of armed forces and veterans

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American Legion 659 Bellizzi Macrae

To promote the principles of the national constitution of the american legion

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The American Legion Department of Nc Inc

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…

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American Legion Post 32

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.

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American Legion Department of Texas

To serve veterans of the united states of america.

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American Legion

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.

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American Legion Post 93

To provide financial assistance and to provide a place for all veterans, soldiers and their families to gather and meet.(see schedule o)

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Legion Charities Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

17 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. 17 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/17

Grantees still filing

7/17

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$8,780,715Public Benefit$2,856,889Human Services$1,963,445Philanthropy$1,396,054Education$637,360Recreation & Sports$579,563Environment$20,188

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

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Charities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Legion Charities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get 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 · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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.

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