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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$2.9MHealth$1.3MYouth Development$1.1MRecreation & Sports$169kArts & Culture$161kPhilanthropy$132kPublic Benefit$72kCrime & Legal$63kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $709,050, the rows itemized in this filing. The $839,744 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $130,694 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 · 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

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 (FY17–23, $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 its 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 Foundation: $25k → 13%Adoption Exchange Association: $19k → 6%Songs of Love: $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
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
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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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
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
    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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The National Children's Cancer Society; 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.
04the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 83 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/72
Grantees still filing
43/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthBILL HILLARY & …BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC: $50,000 · HealthBOSTON COMMUNIT…DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $50,000 · HealthDEPRESSION AND …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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 budgetDEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% 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 budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFELINE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetTRUTH IN NATURE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNITED STATES SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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
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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
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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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 83 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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