How much does American Legion Post 491 Hesley Jensen give?

American Legion Post 491 Hesley Jensen reported 20 itemized grants totaling $221,350, out of $340,251 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does American Legion Post 491 Hesley Jensen fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (33%), Public Benefit (19%), Human Services (19%).

Who are American Legion Post 491 Hesley Jensen's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Minnesota American Legion Foundation ($116k), Yellow Ribbon Alliance Lower St Croix Valley ($84k), The American Legion Department of Minnesota ($77k).

Does American Legion Post 491 Hesley Jensen fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as American Legion Post 491 Hesley Jensen?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is American Legion Post 491 Hesley Jensen based?

American Legion Post 491 Hesley Jensen is based in MN.

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Minnesota · Public charity

American Legion Post 491 Hesley Jensen

To benefit and serve veterans and their families and to preserve and strengthen comradeship with our 550 members.

$340k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 20
Itemized grants FY2025: 5
Organizations funded FY2024: 40%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $221k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $20,650
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 12; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $669k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations American Legion Post 491 Hesley Jensen funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	19	$221k	58%
FY2024	5	$88k	40%
FY2023	12	$295k	58%
FY2022	9	$119k	56%
FY2021	6	$66k	33%
FY2020	7	$86k	n/a

94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$285kPublic Benefit$165kHuman Services$162kArts & Culture$71kHousing & Shelter$31kHealth$21kCommunity Improvement$20kMembership Benefit$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Minnesota American Legion Foundation	$115,500	5	8%
Yellow Ribbon Alliance Lower St Croix Valley	$83,950	4	n/a
The American Legion Department of Minnesota	$77,000	1	6%
Mahtomedi VFW & Legion Baseball	$69,100	5	n/a
St Croix Valley Athletic Assoc	$57,000	4	4%
Big Marine Lake Association	$47,000	3	n/a
Disabled Veterans Rest Camp Association Inc	$41,000	2	2%
Bayport Community Action League Inc	$40,000	2	n/a
Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans	$31,400	3	0%
Summer Tuesday Inc	$30,000	3	9%

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All grantees of American Legion Post 491 Hesley Jensen by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Minnesota American Legion Foundation	$115,500	5	8%
Yellow Ribbon Alliance Lower St Croix Valley	$83,950	4	n/a
The American Legion Department of Minnesota	$77,000	1	6%
Mahtomedi VFW & Legion Baseball	$69,100	5	n/a
St Croix Valley Athletic Assoc	$57,000	4	4%
Big Marine Lake Association	$47,000	3	n/a
Disabled Veterans Rest Camp Association Inc	$41,000	2	2%
Bayport Community Action League Inc	$40,000	2	n/a
Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans	$31,400	3	0%
Summer Tuesday Inc	$30,000	3	9%
The Locals Inc	$20,000	1	11%
Hometown Hero Outdoors	$20,000	1	4%
Legionville School Safety Patrol Training Center Inc	$12,050	1	4%
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc	$11,000	1	0%
Stillwater Area Hockey Association	$10,000	1	n/a
Minnesota Third District Indivisible	$10,000	1	n/a
Hope House of St Croix Valley	$10,000	1	1%
Minnesota National Guard Enlisted Association	$10,000	1	25%
American Legion Veterans	$10,000	1	n/a
Greater Stillwater Chamber of Comme	$10,000	1	3%
Lower St Croix Valley Veterans Memorial Park	$10,000	1	n/a
Voiture Nationale la Societe Des 40 Hommes Et 8 Chevaux	$10,000	1	n/a
Boy Scouts of America Central Region Trust	$9,000	1	23%
Order of the Eastern Star of Minnesota Grand Chapter	$7,450	1	3%
Stillwater Area Jo Volleyball	$6,000	1	4%
The Partnership Plan for Stillwater Area Public Schools	$6,000	1	1%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc	$5,500	1	0%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($106k), not named here.

American Legion Post 491 Hesley Jensen supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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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.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA0.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About American Legion Post 491 Hesley Jensen

How much does American Legion Post 491 Hesley Jensen give?: American Legion Post 491 Hesley Jensen reported 20 itemized grants totaling $221,350, out of $340,251 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does American Legion Post 491 Hesley Jensen fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (33%), Public Benefit (19%), Human Services (19%).
Who are American Legion Post 491 Hesley Jensen's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Minnesota American Legion Foundation ($116k), Yellow Ribbon Alliance Lower St Croix Valley ($84k), The American Legion Department of Minnesota ($77k).
Does American Legion Post 491 Hesley Jensen fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as American Legion Post 491 Hesley Jensen?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is American Legion Post 491 Hesley Jensen based?: American Legion Post 491 Hesley Jensen is based in MN.