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American Legion Post 23

Organization of past and present members of the armed forces

$294k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Human Services$28kAnimals$20kPublic Benefit$15kMembership Benefit$15kArts & Culture$11kRecreation & Sports$10kEducation$5kHealth$5k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $61,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $294,099 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $233,099 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 $10k8 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$416k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
True Lure$20,000
Scioto Co Heritage Museum$6,000
Warrior Ridge$5,000
Friends of Greenlawn Cemetery$5,000
Shawnee State University Dev Founda$5,000
Chillicothe VA Medical Center$5,000
Hardknocks Training Center$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Potters House Ministries$5,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Ohio Veterans Home: $8k → 11%Potters House Ministries: $5k → 22%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 field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
2/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOP Lodge 187: $10,000 · OtherFOP Lodge 187OHIO GREEN BERET SUPPORT GROUP LLC: $10,000 · OtherOHIO GREEN BERET SUPPORT GROUP LLCScioto Co Heritage Museum: $6,000 · OtherScioto Co Heritage MuseumRome Masonic Lodge 535: $5,000 · OtherRome Masonic Lodge 535PORTSMOUTH WEST BAND BOOSTERS: $5,000 · OtherPORTSMOUTH WEST BAND BOOSTERSNURSING HOME VETERANS PROGRAM LLC: $5,000 · OtherNURSING HOME VETERANS PROGRAM LLCIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientChillicothe VA Medical Center: $5,000 · OtherChillicothe VA Medical CenterHARD KNOCKS TRAINING CENTER LLC: $5,000 · OtherHARD KNOCKS TRAINING CENTER LLCTRUE LURE INC: $20,000 · AnimalsTRUE LURE INCTHE OHIO VETERANS HOME VOLUNTEER ADVISORY COMMITTEE INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE OHIO VETE…POTTERS HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesPOTTERS HOUSE…Warrior Ridge Co: $5,000 · Public BenefitWarrior Ri…FRIENDS OF GREENLAWN CEMETERY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Public BenefitFRIENDS OF…Shawnee State University Foundation: $5,000 · EducationWINGS OF HOPE RECOVERY SERVICES: $5,000 · Health
Other$56,000Animals$20,000Human Services$12,500Public Benefit$10,000Education$5,000Health$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE OHIO VETERANS HOME VOLUNTEER ADVISORY COMMITTEE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPOTTERS HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetShawnee State University Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWINGS OF HOPE RECOVERY SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWarrior Ridge Co: $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF GREENLAWN CEMETERY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 10% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Post 23 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Legion Post 23. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–50%
    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.

    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 16 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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