· Public charity
The American Legion National Emergency Fund
The national emergency fund helps displaced veterans in the aftermath of disasters.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $50,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $760,196 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $710,196 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Legion Post 0026 | $10,000 |
| American Legion Post 0285 | $10,000 |
| American Legion Post 0199 | $10,000 |
| American Legion Post 0011 | $10,000 |
| American Legion Post 0066 | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
Activities used to support the activities of the american legion which service military veterans and their families
Support of patriotic wartime veterans
Support the american legion and offer entertainment for local members and building facilities for the general public and members
To provide services to American Veterans to assist the community in the various projects and to promote patriotism
Providing available programs to our Unite States Servicemen, Servicewomen and members providing support to the community in the way of contributions to various local organizations
The American Legion Post is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and honoring our veterans, the military and their families. They are devoted to providing support to military based causes as well as local organizations and…
The american legion is a veterans organization devoted to mutual helpfulness. it is committed to mentoring and sponsorship of youth programs in our communities, advocating patriotism and honor, promoting a strong national security, and…
Local american legion post
American legion
To honor veterans and service members
Provide social and recreational activities for members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Legion Post 306 John W Lup O Memorial and the most unlike its peers is Kenneth C Boudreaux American Legion Post 380. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
16 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 42 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 363 ↗
- Who funds MAYFIELD POST 26 ↗
- Who funds NASE-KRAFT POST #255 ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 66 ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 306 JOHN W LUP O MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds PAUL W AIREY AMERICAN LEGION POST 392 INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN LEGION EDGEWATER POST 285 INC ↗
- Who funds Kenneth C Boudreaux American Legion Post 380 ↗
- Who funds AMERCIAN LEGION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 467 ↗
- Who funds ARTHUR SAWYER POST NO 28 THE AMER LEGION INC ↗
- Who funds FRANK B HUDDLESTON POST 81 AMERICAN LEGION ↗
- Who funds JAMES LEBLANC AMERICAN LEGION POST 230 ↗
- Who funds American Legion Post 370 WA Guillory ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 154 INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The American Legion National Emergency Fund 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.
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.
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