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The American Legion National Emergency Fund at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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The American Legion National Emergency Fund

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

$760k
Granted FY2022
5
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Membership Benefit$181kHuman Services$123kPublic Benefit$42kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kFood & Nutrition$10k
02FY2022 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $50,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $760,196 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $710,196 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.
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Legion Post 0026$10,000
American Legion Post 0011$10,000
American Legion Post 0066$10,000
American Legion Post 0285$10,000
American Legion Post 0199$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%American Legion Post 0255: $10k → 6%American Legion Post 363: $10k → 17%American Legion Post 7: $10k → 19%American Legion Post 108: $10k → 19%American Legion Post 81: $8k → 10%American Legion Post 135: $5k → 10%American Legion Post 0199: $10k → 11%American Legion Post 0285: $10k → 12%American Legion Post 392: $10k → 12%American Legion Post 28: $9k → 13%American Legion Post 25: $5k → 16%American Legion Post 0011: $10k → 25%American Legion Post 447: $7k → 5%American Legion Post 242: $10k → 9%American Legion Post 116: $8k → 12%American Legion Post 467: $10k → 15%American Legion Post 203: $6k → 14%American Legion Post 230: $8k → 13%American Legion Post 64: $10k → 17%American Legion Post 0210: $6k → 18%American Legion Post 0061: $10k → 21%American Legion Post 0168: $10k → 22%American Legion Post 0067: $10k → 23%American Legion Post 0304: $10k → 5%American Legion Post 0306: $10k → 8%American Legion Post 0380: $10k → 16%American Legion Post 0370: $7k → 17%American Legion Post 284: $10k → 18%American Legion Post 0026: $10k → 19%American Legion Post 0066: $10k → 29%American Legion Post 154: $5k → 13%American Legion Post 11: $10k → 25%American Legion Post 0154: $5k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
PA
NJ
KY
TN
NC
OK
LA
MS
TX
FL
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
Conn-Weissenberger Post #587

Activities used to support the activities of the american legion which service military veterans and their families

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2
American Legion Post 1718

Support of patriotic wartime veterans

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3
American Legion Post

Support the american legion and offer entertainment for local members and building facilities for the general public and members

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4
American Legion Post 444

To provide services to American Veterans to assist the community in the various projects and to promote patriotism

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5
American Legion Post

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

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6
American Legion Post 202 Albert Lentz Inc

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…

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7
American Legion Post 159

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…

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8
American Legion Post 348

Local american legion post

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9
American Legion Post 469

American legion

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10
American Legion

To honor veterans and service members

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11
Vernon Hill Post 435 American Legion Fou Foundation (Prev Included Scholarship)
Philanthropy
12
American Legion Post 137

Provide social and recreational activities for members.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Legion Post 306 John W Lup O Memorial; 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.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/16
Grantees still filing
7/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN LEGION POST 363: $20,000 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION POST 363+38 more: $324,400 · Other+38 moreARTHUR SAWYER POST NO 28 THE AMER LEGION INC: $9,000 · Public BenefitFRANK B HUDDLESTON POST 81 AMERICAN LEGION: $8,000 · Public BenefitJAMES LEBLANC AMERICAN LEGION POST 230: $8,000 · Public Benefit
Other$344,400Public Benefit$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAYFIELD POST 26: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION POST 306 JOHN W LUP O MEMORIAL: $10,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION POST 66: $10,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetPAUL W AIREY AMERICAN LEGION POST 392 INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN LEGION EDGEWATER POST 285 INC: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAMERCIAN LEGION: $10,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetNASE-KRAFT POST #255: $10,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetJAMES LEBLANC AMERICAN LEGION POST 230: $8,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetAmerican Legion Post 370 WA Guillory: $6,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION POST 154 INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 363 ↗
  • Who funds MAYFIELD POST 26 ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 467 ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 306 JOHN W LUP O MEMORIAL ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 66 ↗
  • 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 NASE-KRAFT POST #255 ↗
  • 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 ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
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no gov · 70%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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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    How do I get to The American Legion National Emergency Fund?

    Find your warmest path to The American Legion National Emergency Fund 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 42 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $314k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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