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Amvets National Service Foundation

AMVETS NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION provides support to veterans through service programs as well as providing community and youth-oriented programs designed to promote unity and patriotism.

$869k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$750k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$7.1MAnimals$1.3MPublic Benefit$1.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$309kRecreation & Sports$30kMembership Benefit$10k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $816,322, the rows itemized in this filing. The $869,087 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $52,765 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

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $66k
  • $250k+1 grant · $750k
$47,740
Median grant
1
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMVETS NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS$750,000
AMVETS LADIES AUXILIARY$47,740
NATIONAL JUNIOR AMVETS$18,582
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMVETS PA SERVICE FOUNDATION: $53k → 11%AMVETS DEPT OF NEW YORK SERVICE FOUNDATION: $377k → 13%AMVETS DEPT OF TX: $76k → 14%AMVETS DEPT OF FL: $189k → 13%AMVETS DEPT OF MICHIGAN: $34k → 16%AMVETS DEPT OF TN: $501k → 10%AMVETS DEPT OF GEORGIA SERVICE FOUNDATION: $43k → 6%AMVETS DEPT OF IN: $36k → 16%AMVETS DC SERVICE FOUNDATION: $44k → 6%AMVETS DEPT OF VA: $44k → 20%AMVETS NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS: $930k → 11%AMVETS DEPT OF MD: $144k → 12%AMVETS PA SERVICE FOUNDATION: $36k → 11%AMVETS NY SERVICE FOUNDATION: $332k → 13%AMVETS DEPT OF TX: $32k → 14%AMVETS DEPT OF FL: $156k → 13%AMVETS DEPT OF TENNESSEE: $288k → 10%AMVETS DEPT OF GA SERVICE FOU: $41k → 6%AMVETS DEPT OF VA: $42k → 20%AMVETS NATIONAL HEADQUARTE: $875k → 11%AMVETS DEPT OF MARYLAND: $127k → 12%AMVETS PA SERVICE FOUNDATION: $34k → 11%AMVETS NY SERVICE FOUNDATION: $313k → 13%AMVETS DEPT OF FL: $121k → 13%AMVETS DEPT OF TN: $198k → 10%AMVETS DEPT OF VA: $42k → 20%AMVETS NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS: $860k → 11%AMVETS DEPT OF MD: $82k → 12%AMVETS PA SERVICE FOUNDATION: $34k → 11%AMVETS NY SERVICE FOUNDATION: $272k → 13%AMVETS DEPT OF FL: $120k → 13%AMVETS DEPT OF TN: $145k → 10%AMVETS DEPT OF VA: $39k → 20%AMVETS NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS: $750k → 11%AMVETS DEPT OF MD: $64k → 12%AMVETS DEPT OF FL: $97k → 13%AMVETS DEPT OF TN: $142k → 10%AMVETS DEPT OF VA: $32k → 20%AMVETS NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS: $750k → 11%AMVETS DEPT OF MD: $57k → 12%AMVETS DEPT OF FLORIDA SERVICE FOUNDATION INC: $88k → 13%AMVETS DEPT OF TN: $132k → 10%AMVETS LADIES AUXILIARY: $48k → 11%AMVETS DEPT OF MD: $56k → 12%AMVETS NATIONAL AUXILLARY: $36k → 11%AMVETS NATIONAL AUXILLARY: $30k → 11%AMVETS NATIONAL AUXILLARY: $30k → 11%AMVETS NATIONAL AUXILLARY: $30k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
IA
IN
OH
PA
KY
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.0M · 16 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -44% since the first grant, against -52% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
8

Total granted

$9.0M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-44%
-52%

Still filing today

63%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
Public BenefitEducationOther
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

  • A(
    AMVETS (AMERICAN VETERANS)
    4× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue -44% · 33% of their budget
  • AN
    AMVETS NEW YORK STATE SERVICE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $1.6M · revenue -82% · 98% of their budget
  • AD
    AMVETS DEPARTMENT OF TENNEESSEE INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.4M

Funded once

  • AN
    AMVETS NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $884k · revenue -5%
  • FF
    FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE
    one grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue -57%
  • AD
    AMVETS Department of Indiana
    one grant, 2017 · $36k · revenue -52% · 54% of their budget
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
American Veterans Assistance Group of California
Community Improvement
2
Amvets Hawaii Uss Arizona Post

AMVETS Hawaii, USS Arizona Post 1 is a public nonprofit organization established to provide advocacy support and assistance for the betterment of military veterans and their families

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3
Amvets Post 4 Foundation
Public Benefit
4
Amvets 0048 Amvets

Veterans organization

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5
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the 6461

Veterans affairs

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6
Veterans Ancillary Committee
Health
7
Disabled American Veterans of Texas Service Foundation
Human Services
8
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the Us Dept of Mt

Service officers for filing and managing va claims. to assist the posts in providing services to members and their families for veterans of foreign wars.

Public Benefit
9
Cape Verdean Veterans Memorial Project
Arts & Culture
10
American Legion

To honor veterans and service members

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11
Vietnam Veterans of America Alaska

Assisting veterans with services-connected disabilities and related benefits. service officers to help find benefits for veterans.

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12
American Legion Department of Michigan

To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amvets New York State Service Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Special Olympics Ohio 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

14 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. 14 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
2/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMVETS (AMERICAN VETERANS): $3,290,000 · OtherAMVETS (AMERICAN VETERANS)AMVETS NEW YORK STATE SERVICE FOUNDATION INC: $1,570,828 · OtherAMVETS NEW YORK STATE SERVICE FOUNDATION INCAMVETS DEPARTMENT OF TENNEESSEE INC: $1,406,813 · OtherAMVETS DEPARTMENT OF TENNEESSEE INCAMERICAN VETERANS OF WORLD WAR II KOREA AND VIETNAM (AMVETS): $529,815 · OtherAMERICAN VETERANS OF WORLD WAR II KOREA AND VIETNAM (AMVETS)+16 more: $1,232,247 · Other+16 moreAMVETS NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION: $883,904 · Public BenefitAMVETS NATIONAL SERV…AMVETS American Veterans Department of Florida Service Foundation Inc: $770,349 · Public BenefitAMVETS American Vete…NORTH CAROLINA AMVETS SERVICE FOUNDATION: $99,945 · Public BenefitNORTH CAROLINA AMVET…DEPARTMENT OF ALABAMA AMVETS INC: $85,134 · Public BenefitAMERICAN VETERANS OF WORLD WAR II SERVICE FOUNDATION: $181,394 · Education
Other$8,029,703Public Benefit$1,839,332Education$181,394

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMVETS (AMERICAN VETERANS): $3,290,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetAMVETS NEW YORK STATE SERVICE FOUNDATION INC: $1,570,828 over 6y, 98% of budgetAMVETS NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION: $883,904 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetAMVETS American Veterans Department of Florida Service Foundation Inc: $770,349 over 7y, 67% of budgetAMVETS LADIES NATIONAL AUXILIARY: $193,356 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetAMERICAN VETERANS OF WORLD WAR II SERVICE FOUNDATION: $181,394 over 5y, 82% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA AMVETS SERVICE FOUNDATION: $99,945 over 7y, 69% of budgetDEPARTMENT OF ALABAMA AMVETS INC: $85,134 over 6y, 26% of budgetAMVETS DEPARTMENT OF MICHIGAN: $65,569 over 4y, 20% of budgetFREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE: $64,890 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAMVETS Department of Indiana: $35,532 over 1y, 54% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMVETS SERVICE FOUNDATION OF LOUISIANA: $5,788 over 1y, 4.6% 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 AMVETS (AMERICAN VETERANS) ↗
  • Who funds AMVETS NEW YORK STATE SERVICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMVETS NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMVETS American Veterans Department of Florida Service Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN VETERANS OF WORLD WAR II KOREA AND VIETNAM (AMVETS) ↗
  • Who funds AMVETS LADIES NATIONAL AUXILIARY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN VETERANS OF WORLD WAR II SERVICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA AMVETS SERVICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DEPARTMENT OF ALABAMA AMVETS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMVETS DEPARTMENT OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE ↗
  • Who funds AMVETS Department of Indiana ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds AMVETS SERVICE FOUNDATION OF LOUISIANA ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Amvets National Service Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amvets National Service Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%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
    4get 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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    How do I get to Amvets National Service Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Amvets National Service Foundation 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 25 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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