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American Legion No Vel

Service and help the people of venice and support military veterans active service men and women

$53k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$29kHealth$28kMembership Benefit$23kHousing & Shelter$15kCrime & Legal$10kFood & Nutrition$5kRecreation & Sports$4kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $16,676, the rows itemized in this filing. The $52,522 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,846 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.
$8,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Operation Warrior Resolution$8,500
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital$8,176
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 20% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%STATE COLLEGE OF FL SCHOLARSHIP: $8k → 9%DOUGLAS JACOBSON RESIDENT TRUST: $3k → 9%WREATH ACROSS AMERICA: $500 → 10%Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital: $8k → 12%STATE COLLEGE OF FL: $7k → 9%DOUGLAS JACOBSON RESIDENT TRUST: $3k → 9%STATE COLLEGE OF FL SCHOLARSHIP: $7k → 9%DOUGLAS JACOBSON RESIDENT TRUST: $3k → 9%STATE COLLEGE OF FL VETERANS GROUP: $7k → 9%DOUGLAS JACOBSON RESIDENT TRUST: $3k → 9%HOLIDAY BASEBALL CLINIC: $500 → 9%DOUGLAS JACOBSON RESIDENT TRUST: $2k → 9%HOLIDAY BASEBALL CLINIC: $500 → 9%DOUGLAS JACOBSON RESIDENT TRUST: $750 → 9%TURNING POINTS: $500 → 10%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $600 → 10%FIRST STEP: $10k → 9%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY 159: $5k → 9%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY 159: $4k → 9%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY 159: $4k → 9%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY 159: $4k → 9%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY 159: $3k → 9%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY: $1k → 9%SPECIAL OLYMPIC: $1k → 9%AMERICAN LEGION RIDERS: $700 → 9%WELCOME HOME VETS: $500 → 9%SONS OF AM LEGION SP OLYMPIC: $500 → 9%AMERICAN LEGION CRUISERS: $500 → 9%VENICE HIGH VIKINGS: $500 → 9%ITN SUNCOAST: $2k → 9%SARASOTA NATL CEMETERY ADV COMM: $1k → 9%DISABLED AMERICAN VETS: $775 → 9%THE TWIG: $2k → 9%VENICE AREA COMMUNITY MOBILE MEALS: $600 → 9%VENICE AREA COMMUNITY MOBILE MEALS: $600 → 9%VENICE AREA COMMUNITY MOBILE MEALS: $600 → 9%VENICE AREA COMMUNITY MOBILE MEALS: $550 → 9%SOUTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $540 → 9%CIVIL AIR PATROL FL WINGS: $500 → 9%VENICE AREA COMMUNITY MOBILE MEALS: $500 → 9%VENICE HS BOOSERS: $500 → 9%CIVIL AIR PATROL FL WINGS: $500 → 9%VENICE YACHT CLUB: $500 → 9%EPIPHANY CATHEDRAL SCH MARINES: $500 → 9%KIM RUQUET: $4k → 9%Operation Warrior Resolution: $9k → 9%OPERATION WARRIOR RESOLUTION: $2k → 9%OPERATION WARRIOR RESOLUTION: $750 → 9%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.
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$81k · 20 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +172% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
61

Total granted

$81k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+172%
+22%

Still filing today

20%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionPhilanthropyCrime & 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

  • OW
    OPERATION WARRIOR RESOLUTION
    3× · 2019–2023 · $12k · revenue +990%
  • SC
    SOUTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $2k · revenue +172%
  • VT
    VENICE TOUCHDOWN CLUB
    2× · 2018–2019 · $200 · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • FS
    FIRST STEP INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +21% · 42% of their budget
  • SC
    STATE COLLEGE OF FL
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • SC
    STATE COLLEGE OF FL VETERANS GROUP
    one grant, 2018 · $7k
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
Venice Yacht Club Charitable Foundation Inc

Solicit contributions from club members and non members by various activities which will be distributed to 501(c)(3) charities in sarasota county.

Human Services
2
Venice Area Mobile Meals Inc

To deliver a warm nutritous noon time meal, daily except for sunday, to any person in the greater venice florida area unable to prepare a meal because of physical or mental disability, regardless of their income.

Food & Nutrition
3
Amvets Department of Florida Inc

Veterans serving veterans.

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4
Joint Veterans Support Committee for Florida National Cemetery Inc
Philanthropy
5
Senior Athletes of Central Florida Inc
Recreation & Sports
6
Space Coast Honor Flight Inc

Flights to Washington DC from Orlando FL transporting WWII, Korean War and Vietnam Veterans and their guardians to visit their memorials. Expenses covered include airfare, meals, bus transportation and incidentals.

Public Benefit
7
Sarasota Sailing Squadron Inc

To provide club facilities, sailing instruction, boat storage, launch access and ramps/hoists for approximately 1,088 family members.

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8
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Florida

501c 3 public organization for Veterans of Foreign Wars

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9
Honor Flight of Central Florida Inc

To honor americas veterans by providing them with a free trip to washington dc to visit the memorials built to honor then for their sacrifice and service

Public Benefit
10
Lakewood RanchSarasota Bpoe Lodge 2855

Provide services, activities and funds for U.S. military veterans, children and the local community

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11
Sarasota County Rowing Club Inc

Promote national and international competition and rowing, educate new rowers, and provide adaptive rowing opportunities for partially disabled persons and veterans.

Recreation & Sports
12
Venice Mainstreet Inc

Venice mainstreet is committed to preserving and enhancing a quality environment in downtown venice, fl for present and future generations through organized volunteer efforts by focusing on its historic character and economic vitality

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points; the most unlike its peers is Venice Challenger Baseball. 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

20 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. 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY 159: $20,134 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY 159DOUGLAS JACOBSON RESIDENT TRUST: $14,500 · OtherDOUGLAS JACOBSON RESIDENT TRUSTSTATE COLLEGE OF FL SCHOLARSHIP: $14,300 · OtherSTATE COLLEGE OF FL SCHOLARSHIPSTATE COLLEGE OF FL: $7,300 · OtherSTATE COLLEGE OF FLSTATE COLLEGE OF FL VETERANS GROUP: $6,500 · OtherSTATE COLLEGE OF FL VETERANS GROUPAMERICAN LEGION FL REHAB: $4,470 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,895 · Other+67 more: $31,208 · Other+67 moreOPERATION WARRIOR RESOLUTION: $11,580 · HealthOPERATION WARRIOR…JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $8,176 · HealthJOHNS HOPKINS ALL…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,100 · HealthFIRST STEP INCORPORATED: $9,600 · Crime & LegalSOUTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,822 · Food & NutritionVENICE YACHT CLUB INC: $500 · Recreation & SportsVENICE CHALLENGER BASEBALL: $100 · Recreation & SportsVENICE LITTLE LEAGUE: $500 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICAN LEGION POST K-11 INC: $500 · Public Benefit
Other$102,307Health$20,856Crime & Legal$9,600Food & Nutrition$1,822Recreation & Sports$600Youth Development$500Public Benefit$500

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 budgetOPERATION WARRIOR RESOLUTION: $11,580 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetFIRST STEP INCORPORATED: $9,600 over 1y, 42% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $8,176 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetITNSARASOTA INC: $2,040 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,822 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVENICE YACHT CLUB INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOVELAND CENTER INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS INTERNATIONAL- DBA SAHIB SHRINERS: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlantation Community Foundation Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVENICE TOUCHDOWN CLUB: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS SERTOMA OF VENICE 10744: $75 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds OPERATION WARRIOR RESOLUTION ↗
  • Who funds FIRST STEP INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ITNSARASOTA INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds VENICE LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds VENICE YACHT CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST K-11 INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points ↗
  • Who funds HONOR FLIGHT OF WEST CENTRAL FL INC ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Gulf Coast Community …The Louis and Gloria …Msc Foundation IncAmerican Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Msc Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 No Vel funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Legion No Vel. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    12get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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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    How do I get to American Legion No Vel?

    Find your warmest path to American Legion No Vel 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $24k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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