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American Legion Child Welfare Foundation

The American Legion Child Welfare Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations that address the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs of children across the nation.

$840k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$525k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$2.9MHealth$1.3MYouth Development$1.1MRecreation & Sports$169kArts & Culture$161kPhilanthropy$132kPublic Benefit$72kCrime & Legal$63kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $709,050 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $839,744 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $130,694 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
  • $250k+1 grant · $525k
$125,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN LEGION NATIONAL HEADQUARTER$525,000
Cleveland County ALWS Inc$125,000
Boston Community Pediatrics$50,000
ASXL Rare Research Edowment Foundation$9,050
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $292k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS' HOME: $35k → 12%Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Network: $17k → 6%Patient Airlift Services: $46k → 7%Songs of Love Foundation: $25k → 13%Culture Creations Inc: $13k → 16%TRUTH IN NATURE: $20k → 13%Lifeline Pilots: $25k → 14%FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES NOLA: $10k → 15%Adoption Exchange Association Inc: $23k → 6%Songs of Love: $25k → 13%Adoption Exchange Association: $19k → 6%Songs of Love Foundation: $25k → 13%Adoption Exchange Association: $9k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
KS
NC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.7M · 21 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
59

Total granted

$4.7M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • AL
    AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
    4× · 2019–2023 · $346k · revenue +33%
  • MM
    Mercy Medical Angels
    2× · 2018–2020 · $76k · revenue +33%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2021 · $60k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • OM
    OUR MILITARY KIDS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $54k · revenue +42%
  • D
    DUET
    one grant, 2023 · $51k
  • BH
    BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +58%

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
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
2
Conquering Congenital Heart Disease

At conquering chd we exist to conquerin the most common birth defect. we engage, listen, learn, and act. we create visibility and empower all impacted by chd. we accomplish this through awareness, knowledge, community and research.

Health
3
Afe Foundation

We are committed to identifying the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of amniotic fluid embolism and bring our information and resources to healthcare providers and impacted families through our education and support programs.We…

Health
4
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
5
Ataxia Telangiectasia Children's Project Inc

Ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) is a genetic disease that causes loss of muscle control and balance, cancer, lung disease, and immune system problems in children and young adults, shortening their lives. The nonprofit A-T Children's Project…

Science & Tech
6
The Children's Cancer Cause Inc

The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.

Health
7
Alliance for Childhood Diseases

To advance cures and treatment of childhood cancer and other rare diseases.

Health
8
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
9
Oncology and Kids Inc

To help kids and families heal the emotional scars of childhood cancer and learn to thrive.

Human Services
10
Cog Research Foundation Llc

Cog research foundation, llc is a california 501(c)(3) entity founded in 2024 and designed to become the federal grantee organization for the children's oncology group (cog). the cog, a member of the national cancer institute (nci)…

Health
11
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
12
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The National Children's Cancer Society and the most unlike its peers is The Eight & Forty Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMilitary Veterans SupportCancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Animal Rescue and ShelterYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity Arts CentersChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsElementary Literacy Tutoring
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr13%7%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr14%32%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr23%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%2%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%7%10–20yr14%14%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr23%67%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
5/83
the rest of the field
10%
4,324/41,912

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.

04the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 83 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/72
Grantees still filing
43/72
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The American Legion — $3,361,775 · OtherThe American LegionAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS — $346,233 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS+35 more — $787,850 · Other+35 moreNATIONAL AUTISM ASSOCIATION INC — $88,408 · HealthNATIONAL AUTISM…Mercy Medical Angels — $76,000 · HealthMercy Medical A…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $60,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSP…DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE — $50,000 · HealthDEPRESSION AND …BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthBILL HILLARY & …BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC — $50,000 · HealthBOSTON COMMUNIT…THE AUTISM COMMUNITY IN ACTION — $43,610 · HealthTHE AUTISM COMM…ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $37,464 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $35,000 · HealthFIRST CANDLE INC — $34,965 · HealthCURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER — $33,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION — $32,000 · Health+14 more — $223,998 · Health+14 moreSONGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Human ServicesADOPTION EXCHANGE ASSOCIATION INC DBA NATIONAL ADOPTION ASSOCIATION — $50,919 · Human ServicesGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC — $46,190 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $35,000 · Human ServicesLIFELINE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesTRUTH IN NATURE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesHERMANSKY PUDLAK SYNDROME NETWORK — $17,350 · Human ServicesCULTURE CREATIONS INC — $13,000 · Human Services+2 more — $16,380 · Human ServicesCleveland County ALWS Baseball — $125,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC — $49,095 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC — $44,529 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureART ON WHEELS NFP — $5,100 · Arts & CultureUNITED THROUGH READING — $55,875 · Public Benefit22ND DISTRICT THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA INC — $15,000 · Public BenefitOUR MILITARY KIDS INC — $53,904 · PhilanthropyPITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION — $9,450 · Philanthropy
Other$4,495,858Health$814,445Human Services$348,839Recreation & Sports$125,000Arts & Culture$123,724Public Benefit$70,875Philanthropy$63,354

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe American Legion — $3,361,775 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS — $346,233 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCleveland County ALWS Baseball — $125,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC — $104,700 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNATIONAL AUTISM ASSOCIATION INC — $88,408 over 2y, 15% of budgetMercy Medical Angels — $76,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSONGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC — $59,400 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED THROUGH READING — $55,875 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetOUR MILITARY KIDS INC — $53,904 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetADOPTION EXCHANGE ASSOCIATION INC DBA NATIONAL ADOPTION ASSOCIATION — $50,919 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE — $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE J A Y C FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetBOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC — $49,095 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCORNELIA DE LANGE SYNDROME FOUNDATION — $47,758 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC — $46,190 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetAMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC — $44,529 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AUTISM COMMUNITY IN ACTION — $43,610 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $37,464 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST CANDLE INC — $34,965 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER — $33,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION — $32,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY — $31,715 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GRATITUDE INITIATIVE — $31,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetART WITH HEART — $30,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetKnowledge Point Network — $28,330 over 1y, 39% of budgetCENTER FOR ADOPTION SUPPORT AND EDUCATION INC — $25,866 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $25,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFELINE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $24,400 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKANSAS BRAILLE TRANSCRIPTION INSTITUTE INC — $20,981 over 2y, 14% of budgetCHILDREN'S CARDIOMYOPATHY FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE UNITED STATES SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTRUTH IN NATURE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL BLEEDING DISORDERS FOUNDATION — $19,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROGERIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $18,331 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHERMANSKY PUDLAK SYNDROME NETWORK — $17,350 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc — $15,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOC OF BIRTH DEFECT CHILDREN INC D/B/A BIRTH DEFECT RESEARCH FOR CHILDREN — $15,140 over 1y, 11% of budget
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.

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.

Max & Victoria Dreyfu…Chubb Charitable Foun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Express Foun…Nora Roberts Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…Veterans United Found…Eastern Bank Foundati…AbbVie FoundationCh Robinson Worldwide…The Yelp FoundationTextron Charitable Tr…
Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation IncDC16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Express Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Veterans United Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353

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 Child Welfare Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Center for Adoption Support and Education Inc — 51% of income from government
  • First Candle Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Boston Community Pediatrics Inc — 10% of income from government
  • National Braille Press Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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: 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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How do I get to American Legion Child Welfare Foundation?

Find your warmest path to American Legion Child Welfare Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 83 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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