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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$314k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$4.7MEducation$721kPublic Safety & Disaster$579kCrime & Legal$536kPublic Benefit$531kArts & Culture$403kYouth Development$369kRecreation & Sports$367kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 34 grants below total $1,107,724, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,142,724 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,000 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 $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $416k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $348k
  • $250k+1 grant · $314k
$14,128
Median grant
3
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PALISADES HIGH BOOSTERS CLUB$20,000
AM LEGION POST 46$20,000
LEGION POSTS 280$18,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $20k → 11%HOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS: $32k → 19%HOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS: $60k → 14%HOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS: $45k → 14%HOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS: $35k → 14%HOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS: $25k → 14%STACK UP: $10k → 14%HOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS: $10k → 14%US VETS: $10k → 14%STACK UP: $10k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS WEST: $50k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS WEST: $40k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS WEST: $25k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS WEST: $25k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS WEST: $25k → 14%US VETS: $10k → 14%BANDINI FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%BANDINI FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%BANDINI FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
OR
IN
CT
CA
CO
VA
FL
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.4M · 65 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against -2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
75

Total granted

$6.4M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
-2%

Still filing today

43%
7%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $472k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • VF
    VILLAGE FOR VETS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $398k · revenue +885%
  • PU
    PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2025 · $165k · revenue +39%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS WEST
    7× · 2018–2024 · $165k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • VS
    VETERANS SERVICES-RELIEF & REHABILITATION
    one grant, 2017 · $535k
  • YA
    YOUTH ACTIVITIES-WLACC BOY SCOUTS
    one grant, 2017 · $176k
  • CS
    COMMUNITY SERVICES-PALISADES ORGANIZATIONS
    one grant, 2017 · $78k
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
Soldiers of America
Human Services
2
Peaceful Warrior Foundation

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…

Human Services
3
American Soldier

To give assistance to discharged military veterans and their families.

Human Services
4
The Veterans and First Responders
Human Services
5
Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of California

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.

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6
Donnie Edwards Best Defense Foundation

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…

Human Services
7
Vietnam Helicopters
Arts & Culture
8
Special Ops Survivors

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…

Human Services
9
Amvets Hawaii Service Foundation Corp

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…

Education
10
BizVets La

BizVets LA is a non-profit 501c3 organization that is dedicated to educating and connecting business-minded veterans in Los Angeles. We host events designed to provide local veterans with up-to-date and relevant business and legal…

Public Benefit
11
Swords to Plowshares Veterans Rights Organization

Swords to plowshares' mission is to heal the wounds of war, to restore dignity, hope and self-sufficiency to all veterans in need, and to significantly reduce homelessness and poverty among veterans.

Public Benefit
12
Warrior-Scholar Project Foundation

To propel enlisted veterans and service members towards success in higher education and beyond through transformative programming that advances skills, builds confidence, and forges lasting connections.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Village for Vets; 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.
04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 153 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/45
Grantees still filing
22/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VETERANS SERVICES-RELIEF & REHABILITATION: $534,955 · OtherVETERANS SERVICES-RELIEF & REHABILITATIONCOMMUNITY VERERANS JUSTICE PROJECT: $481,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY VERERANS JUSTICE PROJECTIndividual grant recipient: $445,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $336,414 · OtherPALISADES FIRE RELIEF FUND: $314,053 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $270,000 · Other+117 more: $4,254,315 · Other+117 moreVILLAGE FOR VETS: $398,098 · Public BenefitNAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY: $77,000 · Public BenefitCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Public BenefitASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY: $45,000 · Public BenefitARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF: $37,900 · Public BenefitHOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS: $207,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS WEST: $165,000 · Human ServicesTHE BANDINI FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Human ServicesSTACK UP: $20,000 · Human ServicesWARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $20,000 · Human ServicesPALISADES AMERICANISM PARADE ASSOCIATION: $210,000 · Arts & CultureVeterans in Media & Entertainment: $125,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER: $41,275 · Arts & CulturePacific Wrecks Incorporated: $37,500 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF VISTA: $33,900 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $165,000 · EducationTHE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $78,490 · EducationPALISADES ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS: $75,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF MARQUEZ: $60,000 · EducationMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $20,000 · Education+2 more: $25,000 · EducationYOUR PALISADES PARK IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION: $97,000 · Recreation & SportsHEROES MOVEMENT: $80,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE RIVIERA TENNIS FOUNDATION: $22,500 · Recreation & SportsSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $30,000 · HealthCLAREMATRIX: $5,000 · Health
Other$6,635,737Public Benefit$632,998Human Services$492,000Arts & Culture$457,675Education$453,490Recreation & Sports$199,500Health$35,000

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 budgetVILLAGE FOR VETS: $398,098 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetPALISADES AMERICANISM PARADE ASSOCIATION: $210,000 over 7y, 38% of budgetHOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS: $207,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS INC: $176,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $165,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS WEST: $165,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA STATE GUARD FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 53% of budgetVeterans in Media & Entertainment: $125,000 over 2y, 65% of budgetYOUR PALISADES PARK IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION: $97,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetHEROES MOVEMENT: $80,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetTHE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $78,490 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY: $77,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPALISADES ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS: $75,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetCanyon School Inc: $75,000 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetWARRIORS ROAD: $68,197 over 5y, 21% of budgetFRIENDS OF MARQUEZ: $60,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetTHE BANDINI FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetDIVE WARRIORS: $50,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER: $41,275 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF: $37,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF VISTA: $33,900 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetLockwood Animal Rescue Center: $30,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RIVIERA TENNIS FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 3y, 21% of budgetSTACK UP: $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS LEGAL INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SOARING ACADEMYINC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN HUEY 369 INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCLAREMATRIX: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 VILLAGE FOR VETS ↗
  • Who funds PALISADES AMERICANISM PARADE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS ↗
  • Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS WEST ↗
  • 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 COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PALISADES ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS ↗
  • Who funds Canyon School Inc ↗
  • Who funds WARRIORS ROAD ↗

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.

California Community …Jewish Community Foun…The Annenberg Foundat…Sempra FoundationJohnny Carson Foundat…The Ralph M Parsons F…Gary E Milgard Family…Cedars-Sinai Medical …United Way IncThe Rose Hills Founda…The Ahmanson Foundati…Liberty Hill Foundati…
California Community FoundationCA23.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 283 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Legion Post 283. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report 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.

    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 153 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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