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Stallings Williams Post 206 The American Legion at a glance

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Stallings Williams Post 206 The American Legion

A Community Service Organization dedicated to serve the needs of Veterans of all wars, their widows, and dependent children.

$207k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

Philanthropy$160kPublic Benefit$85kHuman Services$78kFood & Nutrition$36kHealth$21kEducation$12kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $92,003, the rows itemized in this filing. The $206,719 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $114,716 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 $10k5 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $66k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Northern High PTSO$25,000
Marine Toys for Tots$11,000
American Legion Department of Maryland$10,000
Wreaths Across America$10,000
113 OSS Morale Fund$10,000
Calvert Hospice$6,000
Calvert Meals on Wheels$5,001
Merle Guild Post 208$5,001
Friends of The Chesapeake Beach Railway Museum$5,001
John F McNully Post 298$5,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Valhalla Sailing Project: $15k → 6%AMERICAN LEGION CHILD WELFARE: $20k → 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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$417k · 9 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$417k
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+26%

Still filing today

89%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’25
PhilanthropyPublic BenefitHuman ServicesEducationFood & 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

  • AL
    American Legion Charities Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue ×14
  • MT
    MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $31k · revenue +21%
  • WA
    Wreaths Across America
    5× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • EH
    End Hunger in Calvert County Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $26k · revenue +26%
  • AL
    American Legion Child Welfare Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -10%
  • VS
    VALHALLA SAILING PROJECT LTD
    4× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue -24%
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
The American Legion September 11 Memorial Scholarship Trust Fund

The September 11th Memorial Scholarship Trust provides higher education funds for any qualified applicant who lost a parent to death while serving in the active-duty military since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and those who…

Education
2
The American Legion National Emergency Fund

The national emergency fund helps displaced veterans in the aftermath of disasters.

Philanthropy
3
American Legion Endowment Fund Corporation

The American Legion Endowment Fund provides financial support for the organization's Veterans Affairs & Rehabilitation services and Children & Youth programs, including Temporary Financial Assistance in the form of cash grants to provide…

Public Benefit
4
The American Legion Charities

The American Legion Charities is a charitable trust which is intended to benefit various Legion programs and charities. The very purpose of the organization requires the disbursement of funds in accordance with the donor's intent.

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5
The American Legion

As the nation's largest wartime veterans service organization, the federally chartered American Legion is committed to lifelong assistance and support for men and women who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces, significant activities of…

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6
Soldiers' Angels

Soldiers' angels provides aid, comfort, and resources to the military, veterans, and their families.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Medal of Honor Foundation Inc

The Medal of Honor Foundation's mission and purpose is to provide funds to support the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. In doing so, the Foundation supports the Society in advancing their mission to perpetuate the Medal of Honor's…

Arts & Culture
8
National Veterans Legal Services Program Inc

To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.

—
9
American Legion Auxiliary Dept of Minnes

In the spirit of service, not self, the mission of the american legion auxiliary is to support the american legion and to honor the sacrifice of those who serve by enhancing the lives of our veterans, military, and their families, both at…

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10
Amvets (American Veterans)

Amvets is a veterans service organization whose members, having served or now serving in the u.s. armed forces, are united to uphold and defend the constitution of the united states; to safeguard the principles of freedom, liberty and…

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11
Packages From Home

To send care and comfort packages to deployed american military heroes who are stationed in active duty theaters around the world, as well as to facilitate activities that elevate morale of all veterans

Philanthropy
12
The American Legion Department of Nc Inc

To promote the social welfare of the community; to assist disabled war veterans and members of the united states armed forces; to carry on programs to perpetuate the memory of deceased veterans and members of the armed forces; to conduct…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fisher House Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Calvert Meals On Wheels 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

13 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. 13 of the 20 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $66,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES: $65,000 · OtherDEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE …FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCCALVERT HOSPICE INC: $27,000 · OtherCALVERT HOSPICE INCNORTHERN HIGH PTSO INC: $25,000 · OtherNORTHERN HIGH PTSO INCCALVERT MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $15,001 · OtherCALVERT MEALS ON WHEELS INCAUXILIARY POST 206: $13,000 · OtherSOUTHERN MARYLAND YOUTH ORGANIZATION INC: $10,000 · Other113 OSS Morale Fund: $10,000 · Other+3 more: $15,002 · Other+3 moreAmerican Legion Charities Inc: $140,000 · PhilanthropyAmerican Legion Charities IncMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $31,000 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATIONWreaths Across America: $30,000 · Public BenefitTHE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Public BenefitAmerican Legion Child Welfare Foundation: $20,000 · Human ServicesVALHALLA SAILING PROJECT LTD: $15,000 · Human ServicesEnd Hunger in Calvert County Inc: $26,000 · Food & NutritionSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Education
Other$276,503Philanthropy$171,000Public Benefit$40,000Human Services$35,000Food & Nutrition$26,000Education$12,000

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 budgetAmerican Legion Charities Inc: $140,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetDEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES: $65,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALVERT HOSPICE INC: $27,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEnd Hunger in Calvert County Inc: $26,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Legion Child Welfare Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCALVERT MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $15,001 over 4y, 17% of budgetVALHALLA SAILING PROJECT LTD: $15,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHERN MARYLAND YOUTH ORGANIZATION INC: $10,000 over 4y, 4.3% 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 Stallings Williams Post 206 The American Legion funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stallings Williams Post 206 The American Legion. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • End Hunger in Calvert County Inc: 32% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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 · 0–40%
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 Stallings Williams Post 206 The American Legion 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 20 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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