· Private foundation
The Legion Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $223k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOFFORD COLLEGE | $36,898 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $33,914 |
| ST PATRICK'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $18,630 |
| RIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| ST URSULA SCHOOL | $11,130 |
| ALBION COLLEGE | $10,855 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| PROVIDENCE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| MIAMI UNIVERSITY OF OHIO | $10,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $10,000 |
| OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
60 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2018–2023 · $95k
WOFFORD COLLEGE2× · 2024–2025 · $76k · revenue -3%- UOUNIVERSITY OF ST AUGUSTINE - JOSHUA PETERSON5× · 2017–2021 · $68k
Funded once
- WCWOFFORD COLLEGE - TARYN TOMCOone grant, 2023 · $21k
- EAEVEREST ACADEMY INCone grant, 2019 · $20k
- MSMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY - NOWAK CARSONone grant, 2022 · $19k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 137 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Legion Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Legion Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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