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The American Legion Department of New York

The american legion is a veterans organization which was declared to be a corporate body by an act of the united states congress on september 16, 1919. According to the original act and subsequent amendments, the purpose of the organization is: "to uphold and defend the constitution of the united states of america; to promote peace and…

$236k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2024
$130k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2018 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$13M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations The American Legion Department of New York funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22
HealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$130k100%
FY20223$254k100%
FY20212$60k100%
FY20192$33k100%
FY20181$23kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$136kMembership Benefit$120kCommunity Improvement$100kHousing & Shelter$34kPublic Safety & Disaster$23kHuman Services$23kEducation$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($174k), not named here.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Network for GoodDC9.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The American Legion Department of New York

How much does The American Legion Department of New York give?
The American Legion Department of New York reported 2 itemized grants totaling $130,000, out of $236,380 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.
What does The American Legion Department of New York fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (27%), Membership Benefit (24%), Community Improvement (20%).
Who are The American Legion Department of New York's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: The Research and Recognition Project Inc ($100k), American Legion Auxiliary Fndn ($100k), Veterans & Community Housing Coalition ($34k).
Does The American Legion Department of New York fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The American Legion Department of New York?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Network for Good, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The American Legion Department of New York based?
The American Legion Department of New York is based in NY.

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 10 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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