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American Legion Post 491 Hesley Jensen
To benefit and serve veterans and their families and to preserve and strengthen comradeship with our 550 members.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of AMERICAN LEGION POST 491 HESLEY JENSEN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $221,350 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $340,251 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $118,901 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 $10k7 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $176k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEYOND THE YELLOW RIBBON - LSCV | $20,650 |
| HOMETOWN HEROS OUTDOORS | $20,000 |
| MAHTOMEDI LEGION BASEBALL | $17,500 |
| BCAL | $15,000 |
| SVAA | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL | $15,000 |
| LEGIONVILLE | $12,050 |
| SUSAN G KOMAN | $11,000 |
| LOWER ST CROIX VETS PARK | $10,000 |
| STILLWATERBAYPORT VOITURE 791 | $10,000 |
| MARINE VETS CAMP | $10,000 |
| SUMMER TUESDAYS | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION FUND 85 | $10,000 |
| BLUE STAR MOMS | $7,450 |
| BEYOND THE YELLOW RIBBON - HUGO | $7,450 |
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 (FY21–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +77% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 11 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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
- MAMINNESOTA AMERICAN LEGION FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $116k · revenue +77%
- SCST CROIX VALLEY ATHLETIC ASSOC4× · 2020–2025 · $57k · revenue +122%
- DVDISABLED VETERANS REST CAMP ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2023–2025 · $41k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- TATHE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTAone grant, 2023 · $77k · revenue +2%
- TLTHE LOCALS INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue 0%
- MNMINNESOTA NATIONAL GUARD ENLISTED ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +87% · 25% of their budget
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota American Legion Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 34 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 MINNESOTA AMERICAN LEGION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX VALLEY ATHLETIC ASSOC ↗
- Who funds DISABLED VETERANS REST CAMP ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds SUMMER TUESDAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOCALS INC ↗
- Who funds HOMETOWN HERO OUTDOORS ↗
- Who funds LEGIONVILLE SCHOOL SAFETY PATROL TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA NATIONAL GUARD ENLISTED ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER STILLWATER CHAMBER OF COMME ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF ST CROIX VALLEY ↗
- Who funds STILLWATER AREA HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CENTRAL REGION TRUST ↗
- Who funds ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF MINNESOTA GRAND CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds THE PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds STILLWATER AREA JO VOLLEYBALL ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 491 Hesley Jensen 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.
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