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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% 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
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $130,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $236,380 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $106,380 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 · 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

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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Its 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 its 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
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 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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans & Community Housing Coalition; 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 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. 7 of the 10 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)
7/7
Grantees still filing
2/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The American Legion Department of New York funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The American Legion Department of New York. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's 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, 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 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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