· Private foundation
American Society of the French Legion of Honor Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE FRENCH LEGION OF HONOR INC’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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $201k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUMANUS DOCUMENTARY FILMS CORP | $30,000 |
| COTTEY COLLEGE | $20,626 |
| OEUVRES SOCIALES DU GRAND CHANCELIER-MAISONS D'EDUCATION DE LA LEGION D'HON | $20,000 |
| US MILITARY ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| FRENCH-AMERICAN SCHOOL OF NEW YORK | $10,000 |
| FRENCH AMERICAN ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| FRENCH-AMERICAN SCHOOL OF RHODE ISLAND | $10,000 |
| US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CAF AMERICA (SPORT DANS LA VILLE) | $10,000 |
| FRENCH INSTITUTEALLIANCE FRANCAISE | $10,000 |
| US AIR FORCE ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE | $10,000 |
| FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| MOLIERE IN THE PARK | $10,000 |
| LYCEE FRANCAIS DE NEW YORK | $10,000 |
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 US giving — 66% of grant dollars ($1.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 34% that went abroad ($548k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 57% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 34% of all-years giving ($548k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- CCCOTTEY COLLEGE6× · 2018–2024 · $121k · revenue +26%
- FSFrench-American School of New York6× · 2018–2024 · $60k · revenue +25%
- TFTHE FRENCH-AMERICAN SCHOOL OF RHODE ISLAND6× · 2018–2024 · $60k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- FDFOUNDATION DE FRANCEone grant, 2018 · $50k
- OSOEUVRES SOCIALES DU GRAND CHANCELIER MAISONS D'EDUCATION DE LA LEGION D'Hone grant, 2021 · $40k
- EOEMBASSY OF FRANCE IN THE USAone grant, 2018 · $25k
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 New York French American Charter School and the most unlike its peers is New York University. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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.
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 38 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 COTTEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Humanus Documentary Films Corp ↗
- Who funds French-American School of New York ↗
- Who funds THE FRENCH-AMERICAN SCHOOL OF RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISE ↗
- Who funds LYCEE FRANCAIS DE NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds MOLIERE IN THE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN ↗
- Who funds US Sciences PO Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FRENCH AMERICAN CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Values Through History ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds French American School of Princeton Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FRANCAISE OF WESTCHESTER 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 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 Society of the French Legion of Honor Inc 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% 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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