· Public charity
American Legion Post 235
Us armed forces veterans' organization to provide recreation and support to the local veterans, support for various local charities and community support groups, support for other veteran organizations, and the head organization of american legion
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $12,619 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,219 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,600 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF FLORIDA | $1,875 |
| HOMELESS VETERAN STAND DOWN | $1,599 |
| CLIFFORD CHESTER SIMS STATE VETERANS NURSING HOME | $1,500 |
| THE AMERICAN LEGION NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS | $1,045 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES NORTHWEST FLORIDA | $1,000 |
| AIR FORCE ENLISTED VILLAGE INC | $1,000 |
| FLORIDA SHERIFFS YOUTH RANCHES INC | $1,000 |
| GULF COAST COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC | $1,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| FEEDING GULF COAST INCORPORATED | $500 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA INC | $500 |
| KIWANIS CLUB OF BIG LAGOON INC | $250 |
| SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION | $250 |
| THE MEMORIAL DAY FOUNDATION | $100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 27% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Veterans serving veterans.
To uphold and maintain the constitution and the laws to the united states; to realize the true american ideals and aims for which those eligible to membership fought; to advance the interests and work for the betterment of all wounded,…
As the nation's largest wartime veterans service organization, the federally chartered American Legion is committed to lifelong assistance and support for men and women who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces, significant activities of…
The American Legion Endowment Fund provides financial support for the organization's Veterans Affairs & Rehabilitation services and Children & Youth programs, including Temporary Financial Assistance in the form of cash grants to provide…
In the spirit of service, not self, the mission of the american legion auxiliary is to support the american legion and to honor the sacrifice of those who serve by enhancing the lives of our veterans, military, and their families, both at…
The September 11th Memorial Scholarship Trust provides higher education funds for any qualified applicant who lost a parent to death while serving in the active-duty military since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and those who…
The organization's purpose is to provide fraternal, patriotic, historical, and educational services; to preserve and strengthen comradeship among members; to assist worthy veterans; to perpetuate the memory and history of our dead, and to…
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
The navy league of the united states fort lauderdale council is a civilian organization that is military oriented, dedicated to the education of our citizens, including elected officials, it supports the men and women of the sea services…
Amvets is a veterans service organization whose members, having served or now serving in the u.s. armed forces, are united to uphold and defend the constitution of the united states; to safeguard the principles of freedom, liberty and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Legion Depart of Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Memorial Day Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 14 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION DEPART OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY ↗
- Who funds The American Legion National Emergency Fund ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds AIR FORCE ENLISTED VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL DAY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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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 Post 235 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida — 5% of income from government
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.