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AMERICAN LEGION

AMERICAN LEGION (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $250 to it, the largest being TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY FOUNDATION ($250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$356k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$250
Net assets
$263k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What American Legion does

Mission

To provide aid and assistance to veterans and families and those still in the military services, social activities for veterans and their families. Final military honors for deceased veterans.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Providing services and facilities to include hall, club room athletics field for veterans, families of veterans, active duty personnel, as well as other organizations, including veterans organizations, current military organizations, boy scouts, girl scouts, little league, civil was groups, coast guard reserves, vfw, sons of the American legion, American legion, American legion aux, and American legion riders.

    $374,946 spent$-19,407 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Provides food, materials, supplies, and gifts to deployed active duty personnel, provide holidday meals to veterans and their families, active duty personnel, their families, provide groceries and gifts to veterans and active duty personnel and their families during the holidays.

  3. The ritual team provides military honors for deceased military personnel and veterans. the post provides a funeral luncheon. Each year a "Post Everlastin" service is held to honor members who died during the prior year.

  4. 000

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $374,946.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($133k) Expenses 100 ($158k) Net assets 100 ($218k)2021 Revenue 180 ($240k) Expenses 139 ($219k) Net assets 110 ($240k)2022 Revenue 233 ($312k) Expenses 257 ($404k) Net assets 67 ($147k)2023 Revenue 258 ($345k) Expenses 169 ($266k) Net assets 104 ($226k)2024 Revenue 265 ($354k) Expenses 189 ($298k) Net assets 129 ($282k)2025 Revenue 266 ($356k) Expenses 238 ($375k) Net assets 120 ($263k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (266)Expenses (238)Net assets (120)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $240k to $147k (−39%).

$218k
$240k
$147k
$226k
$282k
$263k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$24k
’20
$21k
’21
−$93k
’22
$79k
’23
$56k
’24
−$19k
’25
8.4
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

202020212022202320242025
Listed1410101168
Joined·+1+2+4+0+2
No longer listed·52350
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
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.

Where its funders are

AMERICAN LEGION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state in all.

TN

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 Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

350
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

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 (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $250 to it, the largest being TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY FOUNDATION ($250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN LEGION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $250 in grants to AMERICAN LEGION.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN LEGION?
TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250 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 Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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