· Public charity
American Legion Post #580
The organization focuses on service to veterans, its members and surrounding communities.
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 13 grants below total $197,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $446,660 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $249,460 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 · $29k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $169k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP GRATITUDE | $40,000 |
| MINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHANHASSEN AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL | $21,500 |
| CHANHASSEN HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| EXCELSIOR POST 259 LEGION BASEBALL | $15,000 |
| PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CARVER COUNTY VETERANS ASSISTANT PROGRAM | $12,000 |
| CHASKA AREA FISHING WITH FRIENDS | $10,000 |
| HENDRICKSON FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PROP AGENCY | $8,000 |
| CAP AGENCY | $8,000 |
| BOY SCOUT TROOP 330 | $6,700 |
| BOY SCOUT TROOP 409 | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $294k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 95% 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.
22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MMMINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2025 · $154k · revenue +161%
- PNPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +26%
- SCSCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC7× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- MVMINNESOTA VETERANS 4 VETERANS TRUSTone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
- FSFT SNELLING MEMORIAL RIFLE SQUADone grant, 2020 · $20k
- DVDISABLED VETERANS REST CAMP ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +70%
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 financial assistance to minnesota military personnel and their families who have served in a combat zone since september 11, 2001
Provide grants to organizations supporting our organizations mission and offer recognition to individuals who provide healthy community engagement opportunities.
Advocate and assist disabled american veterans and their families to receive the assistance needed to carry on full and productive lives to whatever extent they are able to with their disability.
1. flags of honor. maintaining the flags of honor, commerating deceased veterans by flying united states flags in a memorial park. the park is located in willmar, minnesota and is presently being conducted by members of the local american…
To assist in providing for the rehabilitation and continuing welfare of america's disabled veterans, their families, dependents, and survivors.
The north dakota veterans home foundation builds and manages a permanent endowment for the north dakota veterans home to enhance the quality of life of our veterans.
Providing support services to us military veterans and their dependents.
To provide assistance to veteran's and their loved ones. in particular by supporting the dignity, independence, and mental health of veterans by obtaining motorized scooters and providing them to veterans nationwide.
The minnesota vfw charitable association was organized to support minnesota veterans and programs that support minnesota and non-minnesota veterans.
Veterans organization to foster camaraderie among united states veterans of overseas conflicts; to serve our veterans, the military, and our communities; to advocate on behalf of all veterans.
Donating clothing and emergency financial aid to veterans, active duty personnel and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota American Legion Foundation and the most unlike its peers is New Prague Veterans Memorial. 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 32 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 41 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 CAMP GRATITUDE ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE REACHING OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST #580 ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds DANIEL DREVNICK MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Veterans of Foreign Wars Department 1210 VFW-MN ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA AMERICAN LEGION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA VETERANS 4 VETERANS TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE HENDRICKSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DISABLED VETERANS REST CAMP ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW PRAGUE VETERANS MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR CARVER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CONFIDENCE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LETS GO FISHING ↗
- Who funds INVOLVE MN ↗
- Who funds Chanhassen Rotary Foundation ↗
- Who funds AUBURN MANOR ↗
- Who funds CROWN COLLEGE ↗
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 #580 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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