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Minnesota American Legion Foundation

To accumulate a trust to fund programs for minnesota veterans and their families not already funded from traditional revenue sources.

$235k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$54k
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 2025.

Education$1.0MMembership Benefit$254kHuman Services$135kHealth$83kPublic Safety & Disaster$70kYouth Development$65kCrime & Legal$54kPublic Benefit$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $111,729, the rows itemized in this filing. The $235,237 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $123,508 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

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
$25,200
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VETERANS DEFENSE PROJECT$53,582
NATIONAL AMERICAN LEGION$25,200
MINNESOTA VETERANS HOME$21,839
ARMED FORCES SERVICES CENTER$11,108
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HAVEN FOR HEROS: $8k → 7%VA MEDICAL CENTER: $27k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIORS GUIDE SERVICE INC: $17k → 11%EAGLE'S HEALING NEST: $20k → 11%LEGIONVILLE SCHOOL SAFETY PATROL TRAINING CENTER INC: $65k → 14%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%NATIONAL AMERICAN LEGION: $251k → 13%NATIONAL AMERICAN LEGION: $177k → 16%VA MEDICAL CENTER: $23k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIORS GUIDE SERVICE INC: $12k → 11%LEGIONVILLE SCHOOL SAFETY PATROL TRAINING CENTER INC: $40k → 14%NATIONAL AMERICAN LEGION: $222k → 13%NATIONAL AMERICAN LEGION: $25k → 16%VA MEDICAL CENTER: $11k → 11%LEGIONVILLE SCHOOL SAFETY PATROL TRAINING CENTER: $20k → 14%NATIONAL AMERICAN LEGION: $200k → 13%NATIONAL AMERICAN LEGION: $25k → 16%VA MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 11%MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS: $17k → 14%NATIONAL AMERICAN LEGION: $175k → 13%NATIONAL AMERICAN LEGION: $17k → 16%VA MEDICAL CENTER: $6k → 11%LEGIONVILLE SCHOOL SAFETY PATROL TRAINING CENTER: $10k → 14%NATIONAL AMERICAN LEGION: $155k → 13%NATIONAL AMERICAN LEGION: $10k → 16%VA MEDICAL CENTER: $6k → 11%MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS: $5k → 14%ARMED FORCES SERVICES CENTER: $11k → 11%MINNESOTA VETERANS HOME: $31k → 11%MINNESOTA VETERANS HOME: $22k → 11%MN VETERANS HOME: $13k → 11%MN VETERANS HOME: $10k → 11%VETERANS DEFENSE PROJECT: $54k → 11%MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS: $28k → 11%PROJECT DELTA: $10k → 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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 7 repeat orgs$160k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -6% since the first grant, against -17% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$1.6M
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
-17%

Still filing today

43%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitEmploymentEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TA
    The American Legion
    5× · 2017–2022 · $1.0M · revenue -26%
  • LF
    Leo F Welch Jr Post 495 American Legion Dept of Indiana Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $254k · revenue -22% · 31% of their budget
  • LS
    LEGIONVILLE SCHOOL SAFETY PATROL TRAINING CENTER INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $135k · revenue -6%

Funded once

  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +50%
  • MA
    MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $28k · revenue +335%
  • EH
    EAGLES HEALING NEST
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -17%
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
Amvets American Veterans Department of Florida Service Foundation Inc
Public Benefit
2
Hookin Veterans
Public Benefit
3
Freedom for Patriots

Veterans hunting-fishing trips and other verterans activities

Public Benefit
4
Minnesota American Legion Auxiliary and the Sons of the American
—
5
At Liberty Connections
Health
6
Veterans Ancillary Committee
Health
7
Baden K9 Kares Foundation Inc

to assist veterans in obtaining service animals

Human Services
8
The Veterans and First Responders
Human Services
9
American Veterans Assistance Group of California
Community Improvement
10
Vetality Corp

Services for veterans

—
11
Veterans & Military Listening Post

Providing organized support to vetrans

—
12
Cape Verdean Veterans Memorial Project
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans; the most unlike its peers is Project Delta. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
3/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The American Legion: $1,003,000 · OtherThe American LegionLeo F Welch Jr Post 495 American Legion Dept of Indiana Inc: $253,885 · OtherLeo F Welch Jr Post 495 American Legion Dept of Indiana IncLEGIONVILLE SCHOOL SAFETY PATROL TRAINING CENTER INC: $135,072 · OtherLEGIONVILLE SCHOOL SAFETY PATROL TRAINING CENTER INCMinneapolis Fisher House: $82,712 · OtherMINNESOTA VETERANS HOME FAMILY COUNCIL-MINNEAPOLIS: $75,831 · Other+2 more: $51,244 · OtherVETERANS DEFENSE PROJECT: $53,582 · Public BenefitEAGLES HEALING NEST: $20,000 · Public BenefitARMED FORCES SERVICES CENTER: $11,108 · Public BenefitPROJECT DELTA: $10,000 · Public BenefitSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS: $27,808 · EmploymentHAVEN FOR HEROES INC: $7,690 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,601,744Public Benefit$94,690Education$30,000Employment$27,808Housing & Shelter$7,690

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe American Legion: $1,003,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLeo F Welch Jr Post 495 American Legion Dept of Indiana Inc: $253,885 over 5y, 31% of budgetLEGIONVILLE SCHOOL SAFETY PATROL TRAINING CENTER INC: $135,072 over 4y, 11% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS GUIDE SERVICE INC: $29,144 over 2y, 11% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS: $27,808 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEAGLES HEALING NEST: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetARMED FORCES SERVICES CENTER: $11,108 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetPROJECT DELTA: $10,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetHAVEN FOR HEROES INC: $7,690 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

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 Minnesota American Legion Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Minnesota American Legion Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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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    How do I get to Minnesota American Legion Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Minnesota American Legion 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 14 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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