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American Legion Thomas Stineman Post 15 Inc at a glance

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American Legion Thomas Stineman Post 15 Inc

To provide a meeting place for war veterans in order to promote americanism and promote civic and community welfare.

$76k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Animals$35kHealth$19kRecreation & Sports$15kFood & Nutrition$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kPublic Benefit$5kPhilanthropy$5k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $57,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $75,685 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $17,935 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$5,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$806k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WABASH COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER$15,000
WABASH LITTLE LEAGUE$10,000
ARC OF WABASH COUNTY$7,500
FOP LODGE #83 SHOP WITH A COP$5,200
CITY OF WABASH$5,050
FISH$5,000
WABASH SPECIAL OLYMPICS$5,000
85 HOPE$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARC OF WABASH COUNTY: $8k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$56k · 3 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$56k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-10%
0%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WC
    WABASH COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +75%
  • 8H
    85 HOPE INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue -10%
  • FO
    FISH OF WABASH INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue -11%

Funded once

  • WL
    WABASH LITTLE LEAGUE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -38%
  • AO
    ARC OF WABASH COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +13%
  • FO
    FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LODGE 83 INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -20%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wabash County Business Alliance Inc

Together, growing a prosperous wabash county.

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2
Wabash Co Animal Shelter Buddies

To rescue, support, & find homes for stray and abandoned animals.

Animals
3
Babe of Wabash County Inc

Our mission is to build community connections to provide educational and physical resources for families. our vision: every family in wabash county has access to the resources needed to foster a positive, caring, healthy family culture.…

Human Services
4
Wabash Independent Living & Learning Center Inc

Providing opportunities for independent and interdependent living for individuals with disabilities.

Human Services
5
Wabash County Business Alliance Foundation Inc

To promote economic development and industrial growth in wabash county.

Community Improvement
6
Wabash General Hospital Foundation

To provide needed grants to wabash general hospital for the purpose of purchasing needed captial equipment and scholarship funding in healthcare related fields.

Health
7
Wabash County Fair Association

Provide exposition for 4-h youth

Human Services
8
Wabash County Farm Bureau

To improve the economic well being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family life

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9
Wabash Recovery Services Inc

To provide a safe, structured and stable environment for people recovering from substance use disorder.

Health
10
Wabash County United Fund Inc

Campaign for donations and pledges from the public and business sectors of wabash county. money is then distributed to various community service agencies.

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11
Wabash Valley Recovery Center
Health
12
Wabash Marketplace Inc

The mission of wabash marketplace, inc. is to foster community and economic development of the historic district in downtown wabash, indiana through promotion, design, economic vitality, and historic preservation.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Wabash County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 83 Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WABASH COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $34,500 · AnimalsWABASH COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INCFISH OF WABASH INC: $10,500 · OtherFISH OF WABASH INCWABASH LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $10,000 · OtherWABASH LITTLE LEAGUE INCFRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LODGE 83 INC: $5,200 · OtherFRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LODGE 83 IN…CITY OF WABASH: $5,050 · OtherCITY OF WABASH85 HOPE INC: $11,000 · Health85 HOPE INCARC OF WABASH COUNTY INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesARC OF WA…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WABASH COUNTY INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyINDIANA SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Animals$34,500Other$30,750Health$11,000Human Services$7,500Philanthropy$5,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWABASH COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $34,500 over 4y, 4.3% of budget85 HOPE INC: $11,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFISH OF WABASH INC: $10,500 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetWABASH LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetARC OF WABASH COUNTY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LODGE 83 INC: $5,200 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WABASH COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANA SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Ford Meter Box Founda…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Ford Meter Box Foundation IncIN15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ford Meter Box Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Legion Thomas Stineman Post 15 Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Legion Thomas Stineman Post 15 Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to American Legion Thomas Stineman Post 15 Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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