Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
AMERICAN LEGION
AMERICAN LEGION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $598,392 to it, the largest being TITUSVILLE LEGION HOME ASSOCIATION ($598,392). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
AMERICAN LEGION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,119 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,119 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trustlocal
- American Legion Department of Ohio Charities Incportfolio match
- Fair Frederick&Ellen Memoriallocal
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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.
94% of AMERICAN LEGION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $142k → $32k.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN LEGION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
100% of AMERICAN LEGION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Elizabeth S Black Charitable TrustlocalPA · funds 20 organizations near you
- American Legion Department of Ohio Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fair Frederick&Ellen MemoriallocalPA · funds 25 organizations near you
- The American Legion National Emergency Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Legion Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Samuel-Edith Justus Char TrustlocalPA · funds 28 organizations near you
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United Statesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wisconsin VFW Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arthur W Phillips Trust UwlocalPA · funds 38 organizations near you
- National Council for Community Development Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edward V & Jessie L Peters Charitable TrustlocalPA · funds 28 organizations near you
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Washingtonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like AMERICAN LEGION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION?
- AMERICAN LEGION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $598,392 to it, the largest being TITUSVILLE LEGION HOME ASSOCIATION ($598,392). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN LEGION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $598,392 in grants to AMERICAN LEGION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN LEGION?
- TITUSVILLE LEGION HOME ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $598,392 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 Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing