American Legion Department of Ohio Charities Inc

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American Legion Department of Ohio Charities Inc

Q: How much did American Legion Department of Ohio Charities Inc grant in FY2025?

American Legion Department of Ohio Charities Inc reported 211 itemized grants totaling $14,357,267, out of $14,672,182 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Q: Where is American Legion Department of Ohio Charities Inc based?

American Legion Department of Ohio Charities Inc is based in OH.

To support the charitable programs of the american legion, department of ohio.

$15M

Granted FY2025still arriving

211

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$387k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 93% of AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF OHIO CHARITIES INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 211 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 211 grants below total $14,357,267 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,672,182 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $314,915 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 · FY2025

Under $10k13 grants · $101k
$10k–50k110 grants · $2.8M
$50k–250k80 grants · $9.0M
$250k+8 grants · $2.4M

$40,375

Median grant

States reached

$913k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
AMERICAN LEGION POST #83	$387,221
THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF OHIO INC	$328,958
AMERICAN LEGION POST #23	$302,225
AMERICAN LEGION POST #584	$290,707
AMERICAN LEGION POST #118	$277,549
AMERICAN LEGION POST #360	$275,897
AMERICAN LEGION POST #330	$261,388
AMERICAN LEGION POST #142	$257,729
AMERICAN LEGION POST #610	$241,763
AMERICAN LEGION POST #162	$236,525
AMERICAN LEGION POST #8	$227,307
AMERICAN LEGION POST #151	$220,828
AMERICAN LEGION POST #211	$209,575
AMERICAN LEGION POST #199	$206,918
AMERICAN LEGION POST #30	$195,326

02The need

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 (FY18–25, $290k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$48M · 237 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

237 repeat relationships — 181 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

237

200

Total granted

$48M

$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%

Still filing today

75%

12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $482k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Public BenefitMembership BenefitHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterHealthOther

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

CD
COMMODORE DENIG AMERICAN LEGION POST NO 83
7× · 2018–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +89% · 57% of their budget
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American Legion Post 330 Auglaize
9× · 2017–2025 · $881k · revenue +123%
AL
American Legion Post 23
9× · 2017–2025 · $873k · revenue +355% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

AL
AMERICAN LEGION POST #29
one grant, 2019 · $86k
AL
AMERICAN LEGION POST #83
one grant, 2019 · $84k
AL
AMERICAN LEGION POST #140
one grant, 2019 · $63k

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.

American Legion Post

Support the american legion and offer entertainment for local members and building facilities for the general public and members

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American Legion Post 100

To support our veterans, schools, community, police and fire departments.

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American Legion Post No 1

Members of armed forces.

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American Legion Post 283

Provide social and recreational activites for members

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American Legion Post 0028

Social activities for members & the public

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American Legion Post 205

Perform Honor Services; Operate a food and beverage services for members.

Public Benefit

American Legion Post 202 Albert Lentz Inc

The American Legion Post is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and honoring our veterans, the military and their families. They are devoted to providing support to military based causes as well as local organizations and…

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Vfw Post 114

Fraternal veteran organization formed to promote Americanism & patriotism.

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American Legion Post 318

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American Legion Post 0370 Ne W

Assist veterans, their families, and the community

Public Benefit

American Legion Post 181 Gustav L Handegaard

To serve veterans and our community Sponsor and asist with activities of a "patriotic nature" Sponsor and assist with Youth programs

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American Legion Post 189

To aid vets and help support the community

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Legion Saner Post 228 and the most unlike its peers is The American Legion of Ohio William Mckinley 106. 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.

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 80 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% 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 — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%11/285

the rest of the field

11%

8,036/74,021

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

225 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. 225 of the 465 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

112

Early backer (in before they grew)

215/225

Grantees still filing

154/225

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$43,620,226Public Benefit$2,687,616Membership Benefit$490,508Human Services$289,891Health$90,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

Columbus FoundationOH4.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Department of Ohio 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines