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AMERICAN LEGION

AMERICAN LEGION (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,606 to it, the largest being AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF OHIO CHARITIES INC ($86,506). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$69k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$87k
Net assets
$40k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What American Legion does

Mission

Promote patriotism, honor & help veterans, mentor youth through community & veterans charities, school, sports, & youth programs.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Mohawk school sports & boosters

  2. Gifts for yanks

  3. Voice of hope & winter fantisy lights

  4. American flags

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($121k) Expenses 100 ($116k) Net assets 100 ($77k)2021 Revenue 81 ($98k) Expenses 97 ($112k) Net assets 69 ($53k)2022 Revenue 48 ($58k) Expenses 61 ($71k) Net assets 66 ($50k)2023 Revenue 67 ($81k) Expenses 73 ($84k) Net assets 64 ($49k)2024 Revenue 57 ($69k) Expenses 72 ($84k) Net assets 52 ($40k)
20172021202220232024
Revenue (57)Expenses (72)Net assets (52)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $50k to $40k (−20%).

$78k
$55k
$51k
$50k
$40k
20172021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’17
−$14k
’21
−$13k
’22
−$3k
’23
−$14k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $6k.

Funder
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
2
1
1

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN LEGION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

AMERICAN LEGION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN LEGION.

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of AMERICAN LEGION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

OH

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like AMERICAN LEGION

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN LEGION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN LEGION?
AMERICAN LEGION (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,606 to it, the largest being AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF OHIO CHARITIES INC ($86,506). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN LEGION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $86,606 in grants to AMERICAN LEGION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN LEGION?
AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF OHIO CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $86,506 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN LEGION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing