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Dorchester Post No 91 Inc at a glance

· Public charity

Dorchester Post No 91 Inc

To implement the goals, aspirations, dreams, peace and blessings for our country, friends and families embodied in our preamble.

$223k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$284kHuman Services$169kPublic Benefit$53kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kHousing & Shelter$27kRecreation & Sports$20kAnimals$13kArts & Culture$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $117,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $223,174 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $106,174 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 $10k7 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $71k
$8,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARLOTTE HALL VETERANS HOME$18,000
VA MEDICAL CENTER$18,000
PLEASENT DAY MEDICAL ADULT DAY CARE CTR$15,000
VA GOLDEN AGE GAMES$10,000
SALVATION ARMY$10,000
COASTAL HOSPICE & HOME HEALTH$8,000
EXTREME SEAL ADVENTURES$8,000
Individual grant recipient$7,000
HARRIET'S HOUSE$6,000
LINKWOODSALEM VOLUNTEER FIRE CO$6,000
VA MEDICAL CENTER-LOCH RAVEN$5,500
PERRY POINT VA MEDICAL CENTER$5,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%CHARLOTTE HALL VETERANS HOME: $26k → 8%PERRY POINT VA MEDICAL CENTER: $11k → 10%CHANNEL MARKER INC: $6k → 10%LINKWOODSALEM VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $13k → 15%VA MEDICAL CENTER-LOCH RAVEN: $10k → 19%CHARLOTTE HALL VETERANS HOME: $21k → 8%LINKWOODSALEM VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $8k → 15%LOCH RAVEN VA MEDICAL CENTER: $8k → 19%CHARLOTTE HALL VETERANS HOME: $18k → 8%LINKWOODSALEM VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $7k → 15%CHARLOTTE HALL VETERANS HOME: $18k → 8%LINKWOODSALEM VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $6k → 15%CHARLOTTE HALL VETERANS HOME: $15k → 8%PLEASENT DAY MEDICAL ADULT DAY CARE CTR: $21k → 15%PERRY POINT VA MEDICAL CENTER: $15k → 8%SALVATION ARMY: $19k → 15%BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER: $16k → 19%CHARLOTTE HALL VETERANS HOME: $11k → 8%HARRIET'S HOUSE: $15k → 15%BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER: $15k → 19%CHARLOTTE HALL VETERANS HOME: $10k → 8%PLEASENT DAY MEDICAL ADULT DAY CARE CTR: $15k → 15%BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER: $11k → 19%CHARLOTTE HALL VETERAN'S HOME: $8k → 8%EXTREME SEAL ADVENTURES: $15k → 15%BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER: $8k → 19%PERRY POINT VA MEDICAL CENTER: $8k → 8%VA-CAMBRIDGE CLINIC: $14k → 15%VA MARYLAND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM: $7k → 19%CAMBRIDGE POLICE DEPARTMENT: $14k → 15%CAMBRIDGE VA OUTPATIENT CLINIC: $13k → 15%EXTREME SEAL ADVENTURES: $10k → 15%SALVATION ARMY: $10k → 15%PLEASENT DAY MEDICAL ADULT DAY CARE CTR: $10k → 15%VA CAMBRIDGE CLINIC: $10k → 15%EXTREME SEAL ADVENTURES: $9k → 15%CAMBRIDGE POLICE DEPARTMENT: $9k → 15%EXTREME SEAL ADVENTURES: $8k → 15%CAMBRIDGE POLICE DEPARTMENT: $8k → 15%BAYWATER ANIMAL RESCUE: $7k → 15%CAMBRIDGE POLICE DEPARTMENT: $7k → 15%SALVATION ARMY: $7k → 15%PLEASENT DAY MEDICAL ADULT DAY CARE CTR: $6k → 15%HARRIET'S HOUSE: $6k → 15%BAYWATER ANIMAL RESCUE: $6k → 15%HARRIET'S HOUSE: $6k → 15%EXTREME SEAL ADVENTURES: $6k → 15%CAMBRIDGE RESCUE FIRE COMPANY: $6k → 15%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$634k · 13 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
4

Total granted

$634k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
+22%

Still filing today

15%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Housing & ShelterAnimalsHealthOther
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

  • VB
    VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
    7× · 2017–2025 · $142k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK
    7× · 2019–2025 · $119k
  • ES
    EXTREME SEAL ADVENTURES LTD
    6× · 2019–2025 · $53k

Funded once

  • CH
    CHARLOTTE HALL VETERAN'S HOME
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • CM
    CHANNEL MARKER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +22%
  • CR
    CAMBRIDGE RESCUE FIRE COMPANY
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
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

3 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. 3 of the 17 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)
3/3
Grantees still filing
1/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: $142,400 · OtherVA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEMUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $119,041 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKEXTREME SEAL ADVENTURES LTD: $53,000 · OtherEXTREME SEAL ADVENTURES LTDPLEASENT DAY MEDICAL ADULT DAY CARE CTR: $52,000 · OtherPLEASENT DAY MEDICAL ADULT DAY CARE CTRVA MEDICAL CENTER: $45,000 · OtherVA MEDICAL CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $36,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSALVATION ARMY: $35,516 · OtherSALVATION ARMYLINKWOODSALEM VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $34,000 · OtherLINKWOODSALEM VOLUNTEER FIRE COCOASTAL HOSPICE & HOME HEALTH: $32,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $24,479 · Other+4 more: $39,000 · Other+4 moreHARRIETS HOUSE: $27,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF DORCHESTER COUNTY INC: $13,000 · AnimalsCHANNEL MARKER INC: $6,000 · Health
Other$612,936Housing & Shelter$27,000Animals$13,000Health$6,000

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 budgetHARRIETS HOUSE: $27,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF DORCHESTER COUNTY INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCHANNEL MARKER INC: $6,000 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.

  • Who funds HARRIETS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF DORCHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHANNEL MARKER INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dorchester Post No 91 Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorchester Post No 91 Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%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
    1get no government money at all
    2report 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.

    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 17 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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