· Public charity
American Legion Post 283
AMERICAN LEGION POST 283 was organized to provide benefits for past and present members of the armed forces of the united states, as well as provide donations to charitable organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 34 grants below total $1,107,724 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,142,724 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,000 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 $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $416k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $348k
- $250k+1 grant · $314k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PALISADES FIRE RELIEF FUND | $314,053 |
| VILLAGE FOR VETS | $125,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $65,750 |
| LA FLEETWEEK FOUNDATION | $56,974 |
| TRIBUTE TO VALOR FOUNDATION | $50,204 |
| NEW DIRECTIONS | $50,000 |
| PALISADES AMERICANISM PARADE ASSOCIATION | $46,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $38,541 |
| HOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS | $32,000 |
| PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| AM LEGION VET & CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| AM LEGION POST 46 | $20,000 |
| PALISADES HIGH BOOSTERS CLUB | $20,000 |
| LEGION POSTS 280 | $18,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $492k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $472k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- VFVILLAGE FOR VETS6× · 2020–2025 · $398k · revenue +885%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS WEST7× · 2018–2024 · $165k · revenue +75%
- PUPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2025 · $165k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- VSVETERANS SERVICES-RELIEF & REHABILITATIONone grant, 2017 · $535k
- YAYOUTH ACTIVITIES-WLACC BOY SCOUTSone grant, 2017 · $176k
- CSCOMMUNITY SERVICES-PALISADES ORGANIZATIONSone grant, 2017 · $78k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide scuba instruction for veterans with ptsd. the weightlessness of scuba provides a peaceful respite from the pressures and trauma of military service. scuba for amputees provides a freedom of movement not experienced for years…
The peaceful warrior foundation is a non-profit organization with the aim of connecting our nation's warriors with the support and care they need.at peaceful warrior we strive to help our active-duty operators & veterans be at their very…
To give assistance to discharged military veterans and their families.
To support a full range of issues affecting vietnam veterans, as well as, all veterans. vva is the only congressionaly chartered organization exclusively dedicated to vietnam-era veterans and their families.
To provide for the social well being of veterans of the various branches of the armed forces of the united states of america who have served in a foreign war.
The organization provides unique and transformative experiences for military veterans of all wars to bring closure and honor to those who have served. our three key programs, battlefield return, stronghold transition and our education…
Special ops survivors advances the mission "to embrace and empower surviving spouses of fallen special operations heroes to build healthy post-loss futures as they transition and rebuild their new lives." the foundation provides programs…
AMVETS Hawaii Service Foundation Corp is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving United States veterans, active-duty servicemembers, and their families throughout the State of Hawaii and the Pacific region. AMVETS Hawaii Service…
To improve the lives of our nations warriors (veterans, first responders, peace officers, and their families) by helping them build a new mission and purpose in life, support their recovery and reintegration, and empower them to accomplish…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Village for Vets and the most unlike its peers is Japanese American Cultural Center of Vista. 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.
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 23 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
45 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. 45 of the 153 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 VILLAGE FOR VETS ↗
- Who funds PALISADES AMERICANISM PARADE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS WEST ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA STATE GUARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Veterans in Media & Entertainment ↗
- Who funds YOUR PALISADES PARK IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HEROES MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PALISADES ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Canyon School Inc ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS ROAD ↗
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.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Annenberg Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Johnny Carson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Lori · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · United Way Inc · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation
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 283 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.
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.