· Public charity
American Legion Post 773
Assist and comfort veterans and their families.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $32,126 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $52,981 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,855 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PA AMERICAN LEGION HOUSING | $25,000 |
| MCDOWELL BASEBALL BOOSTERS | $7,126 |
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 (FY17–24, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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 +106% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 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 FY2024, 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
- PAPennsylvania American Legion Housing for Homeless Veterans Corp8× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue -34%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN3× · 2020–2023 · $31k · revenue +106%- MBMcDowell Baseball Boosters4× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +151%
Funded once
- WLWEST LAKE FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -43%
- SASPORTMEN'S ATHLETIC CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +180%
- ALAMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +43%
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.
Social club for war veterans.
To improve volunteer fire service in Schuylkill County
The organization serves, represents, and supports veterans, troops, their familes, and communities.
All organization activities are for the pleasure, recreation, and other nonprofit purposes.
War veterans services
Provides volunteer fire protection and rescue services to the seelyville, pa and surrounding area.
Support military veterans, their families, local and national charitable organizations
Veterans welfare and the social welfare of the community.
To provide fire and ambulance (and other emergency support) for emergency calls for the City of Lower Burrell, PA which has approximately 14,000 residents.
American Legion Baseball Team
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Legion Department of Pennsylvania and the most unlike its peers is Sportmen's Athletic Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 10 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 Pennsylvania American Legion Housing for Homeless Veterans Corp ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds McDowell Baseball Boosters ↗
- Who funds Blended Spirits Ranch ↗
- Who funds WEST LAKE FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds SPORTMEN'S ATHLETIC CLUB ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE REGIONAL CANCER CENTER ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Legion Post 773 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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