How much does American Legion Department of Ohio Charities Inc give?

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. It funded between 131 and 216 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does American Legion Department of Ohio Charities Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (48%), Membership Benefit (30%), Public Benefit (14%).

Who are American Legion Department of Ohio Charities Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Commodore Denig American Legion Post No 83 ($1.0M), American Legion Post 330 Auglaize ($881k), American Legion Post 23 ($873k).

Does American Legion Department of Ohio Charities Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

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

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.

American Legion Department of Ohio Charities Inc

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

· Public charity

American Legion Department of Ohio Charities Inc

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 it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$25MMembership Benefit$16MPublic Benefit$7.0MYouth Development$898kEducation$812kRecreation & Sports$782kPhilanthropy$656kHealth$272kOther$0

02FY2025 · 211 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 211 grants below total $14,357,267, the rows itemized in this filing. The $14,672,182 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $314,915 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 · 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

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 (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 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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

+73%

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

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

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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

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 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

To provide aid and assistance to veterans and families and those still in the military services, social activities for veterans and their families. Final military honors for deceased veterans.

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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 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 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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Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4562

Fraternal, patriotic, historical

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American Legion Post 92

To provide social & recreational activities for veterans

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American Legion Post 70

To assist fellow veterans, their widows and children to promote the social welfare of the community, to sponsor or participate in activities of a patriotic nature, to provide social

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Legion Saner Post 228; 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.

04the grantee network

225 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

112

Early backer (in before they grew)

216/225

Grantees still filing

156/225

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

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

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Department of Ohio Charities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Legion Department of Ohio Charities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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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

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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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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