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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.

$236k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0163% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20182024.

Health$130kCommunity Improvement$100kHousing & Shelter$34kPhilanthropy$23kHuman Services$23kRecreation & Sports$6kOther$184k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $130,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $236,380 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $106,380 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY FNDN$100,000
HIGH & MIGHTY$30,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN LEGION CHILD WELFARE FOUNDATION INC: $23k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
For Veterans Sake Foundation

For veteran's sake foundation is here to provide an alternative solution to dealing with pts (post traumatic stress). we use a combination of a (non-therapeutic) neuro-traumatic resourcing, service dogs and consulting. working with the…

Health
2
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
3
Duty First Assistance Dogs

Providing service dogs to veterans and first responders

Human Services
4
A Soldier's Journey Home

The mission is to build homes for soldiers injured during the line of duty.

Human Services
5
Companions for Heroes

To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.

Human Services
6
American Soldier

To give assistance to discharged military veterans and their families.

Human Services
7
At Liberty Connections
Health
8
K9s On the Front Line

Supplying service dogs to verterans with post traumatic stress disorder.

Health
9
Alpha Bravo Canine

Helping veterans with ptsd and traumatic brain injuries regain quality of life using service dogs.

Human Services
10
Vets Returning Home Inc

Veterans services in the form of referrals and other assistance while providing transitional housing to those in need.

Philanthropy
11
Healing Paws for Warriors Inc

Healing paws for warriors is a local veteran found / veteran led 501(c)(3) that provides rescue to trained service dogs to veterans faced with post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), traumatic brain injury (tbi) and/or military sexual…

Human Services
12
Trea Gives

To honor and support veterans in crisis by providing emergency financial assistance, nourishing food assistance, and life-changing service dog sponsorship -- ensuring no hero is left behind in their time of need.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans & Community Housing Coalition and the most unlike its peers is Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation. 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

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
2/7
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN LEGION NATIONAL — $120,000 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION NATIONALOTHER — $54,245 · OtherOTHERLT MICHAEL P MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherLT MICHAEL P MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIO…THE RESEARCH AND RECOGNITION PROJECT INC — $100,000 · HealthTHE RESEARCH AND RECOGNITION …High & Mighty Therapeutic Riding — $30,000 · HealthHigh & Mighty Therapeutic Rid…AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY FNDN — $100,000 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN LEGION AUXILI…VETERANS & COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION — $34,450 · Housing & ShelterThe American Legion National Emergency Fund — $23,000 · PhilanthropyAmerican Legion Child Welfare Foundation — $22,500 · Human ServicesCAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC — $6,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$184,245Health$130,000Community Improvement$100,000Housing & Shelter$34,450Philanthropy$23,000Human Services$22,500Recreation & Sports$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE RESEARCH AND RECOGNITION PROJECT INC — $100,000 over 1y, 63% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY FNDN — $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetVETERANS & COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION — $34,450 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHigh & Mighty Therapeutic Riding — $30,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetThe American Legion National Emergency Fund — $23,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetAmerican Legion Child Welfare Foundation — $22,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The American Legion Department of New York funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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