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American Veterans of World War II Post 45 Salem Amvets

To uphold and defend the constitution of the unted states of america; to safeguard the principles of freedom, liberty & justice for all; to promote the cause of peace and goodwill amongst nations; to maintain the freedom of our country; to preserve the fundamentals of democracy.

$368k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$78k
Largest
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$396kHuman Services$165kPublic Safety & Disaster$78kFood & Nutrition$70kPublic Benefit$18kArts & Culture$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $313,268, the rows itemized in this filing. The $368,351 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $55,083 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $293k
$53,095
Median grant
1
States reached
$919k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMVETS$78,213
SALEM ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB$55,101
UNITED BOOSTER ASSOCIATION$53,795
SALEM COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$53,095
SALVATION ARMY$53,095
VARIOUS$18,969
CITY OF SALEM$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%MILITARY VETERANS RESOURCE CENTER: $19k → 15%SALEM ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $55k → 16%Wreaths for Veterans: $28k → 19%Salem Athletic Booster Club: $45k → 16%Wreaths for Veterans: $18k → 19%Brightside Project Inc: $28k → 16%Salem Athletic Booster Club: $18k → 16%Brightside Project Inc: $18k → 16%SALEM ATHLETIC BOOSETER CLUB: $17k → 16%Salvation Army: $17k → 16%Salem Community Pantry Inc: $17k → 16%SALEM ATHLETIC BOOSETER CLUB: $12k → 16%SALEM ATHLETIC BOOSETER CLUB: $11k → 16%SALEM ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $11k → 16%LEETONIA BOOSTER ASSOCIATION: $17k → 16%LEETONIA BOOSTER ASSOCIATION: $12k → 16%LEETONIA BOOSTER ASSOCIATION: $12k → 16%LEETONIA BOOSTER ASSOCIATION: $11k → 16%Leetonia Athletic Boosters As: $5k → 16%UNITED BOOSTER ASSOCIATION: $54k → 16%United Athletic Booster Club: $45k → 16%United Athletic Booster Club: $18k → 16%UNITED BOOSTER ASSOCIATION: $17k → 16%UNITED BOOSTER ASSOCIATION: $13k → 16%UNITED BOOSTER ASSOCIATION: $12k → 16%UNITED BOOSTER ASSOCIATION: $11k → 16%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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$552k · 7 repeat orgs$256k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$552k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+21%

Still filing today

29%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitFood & NutritionOther
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

  • SA
    SALEM ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB
    7× · 2019–2025 · $169k · revenue +32%
  • UB
    UNITED BOOSTER ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2019–2025 · $107k
  • V
    VARIOUS
    5× · 2019–2025 · $69k

Funded once

  • VC
    VETERANS CARE NETWORK
    one grant, 2018 · $19k · revenue +21%
  • SC
    SALEM COMMUNITY PANTRY
    one grant, 2024 · $17k · revenue 0%
  • AV
    AMERICAN VETERANS OF WORLD WAR II POST 45 SALEM AMVETSgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $17k · revenue +28%
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
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 16 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED BOOSTER ASSOCIATION: $106,758 · OtherUNITED BOOSTER ASSOCIATIONAMVETS: $78,213 · OtherAMVETSVARIOUS: $68,687 · OtherVARIOUSUNITED ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $63,150 · OtherUNITED ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUBSALVATION ARMY: $53,095 · OtherSALVATION ARMYSALEM COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $53,095 · OtherSALEM COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRYLEETONIA BOOSTER ASSOCIATION: $51,782 · OtherLEETONIA BOOSTER ASSOCIATIONWREATHS FOR VETERANS: $46,584 · OtherWREATHS FOR VETERANS+4 more: $36,037 · Other+4 moreSALEM ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $168,741 · EducationSALEM ATHLETIC BOOSTER …BRIGHTSIDE PROJECT INC: $46,583 · Youth DevelopmentVETERANS CARE NETWORK: $18,918 · Public BenefitSALEM COMMUNITY PANTRY: $16,568 · Food & Nutrition
Other$557,401Education$168,741Youth Development$46,583Public Benefit$18,918Food & Nutrition$16,568

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSALEM ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $168,741 over 7y, 20% of budgetBRIGHTSIDE PROJECT INC: $46,583 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetVETERANS CARE NETWORK: $18,918 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSALEM COMMUNITY PANTRY: $16,568 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetAMERICAN VETERANS OF WORLD WAR II POST 45 SALEM AMVETS: $16,568 over 1y, 2.7% 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.

  • Who funds SALEM ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHTSIDE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS CARE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds SALEM COMMUNITY PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN VETERANS OF WORLD WAR II POST 45 SALEM AMVETS ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Veterans of World War II Post 45 Salem Amvets funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Veterans of World War II Post 45 Salem Amvets. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%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
    1report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to American Veterans of World War II Post 45 Salem Amvets 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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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