· Public charity
American Legion Post 91 of New Salem
To uphold and defend the constitution of the united states of america; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent americanism; to preserve the memories and incidents of our associations in the great wars; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation; to combat the…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 32 grants below total $502,368 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $861,697 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $359,329 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 $10k13 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $337k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW SALEM SADDLE CLUB | $83,000 |
| NEW SALEM PARK DISTRICT | $43,375 |
| Individual grant recipient | $33,500 |
| NEW SALEM-ALMONT SCHOOL | $27,087 |
| MCLEAN COUNTY SHERIFF DEPT | $24,000 |
| WING PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $23,400 |
| SURREY PUBLIC SCHOOL | $23,000 |
| SURREY HIGH SCHOOL | $21,550 |
| NEW SALEM CIVIC CLUB | $20,129 |
| NEWSALEM-ALMONT SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| AO1 FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| MAX PUBLIC SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,500 |
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 (FY24–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +130% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k 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
- NSNEW SALEM CIVIC CLUB INC6× · 2019–2024 · $278k · revenue +574%
- NSNEW SALEM-ALMONT SCHOOL3× · 2022–2024 · $224k
- NSNEW SALEM PARK DISTRICT2× · 2023–2024 · $91k
Funded once
- AOALL OFTHER 5000 OR LESSone grant, 2020 · $98k
- AOALL OTHER DONATIONS 5000 OR LESSone grant, 2019 · $55k
- TFTOWNER FIRE AMBULANCE AND RESCUE INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -105% · 37% 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.
To provide fire protection services to the community.
Community fire protection
The Garretson Volunteer Fire Department serves the City of Garretson and surrounding communities in Eastern South Dakota. The Department is made up completely of volunteer fireman and is responsible for roughly 100 square miles within its…
Fire Protection
Firefighter & emergency medical services for the waskom, tx area.
Volunteer fire and rescue providing services to homer township and mutual aid support to richmond and dakota townships, and city of winona
Fire Department
Providing fire fighting services to the surrounding communities.
To provide Fire, Rescue, Medical and Emergency services to the community.
The dickinson area chamber of commerce will provide leadership to promote a progressive business environment.
The corporation provides fire protection and rescue services for irvington, ne and surrounding areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Towner Community Club and the most unlike its peers is Hairball Haven. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 73 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.
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 91 of New Salem 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.