Colorado · Nonprofit
AMERICAN LEGION
AMERICAN LEGION (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being Colorado Veterans Resource Coalition ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $111k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What American Legion does
Mission
Assist veterans and local community and youth programs provide citizenship and nationalization education
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Honor Flight Victory Service Dogs Oritorical Contest High School ROTC Childrens will being Fund Assist veterans with rent utilities etc Donate to Toys For Tots Sponser scouting program and provide flags and flag etiquette booklets to new natuarlized citizens
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Provide American flags and flag etiquette booklets for naturalized citizens. Approx 240 new citizens in one year
$3,200 spent17% of program spendingBoys State program. Teaches high school boys the fundimentals of government and how it works.
$2,000 spent11% of program spendingHonor Guard and color guard. Present rifle volleys at final honors for veterans. Also present flags at ceremonies.
$1,624 spent9% of program spendingHonor Flight Victory Service Dogs Oritorical contest High School ROTC Childrens Wellbing Fund assist veterans with rent utilities etc Donate to Toys for Tots Sponser scouting program
$11,500 spent63% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,324.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 $137k to $1.6M (+1085%).
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.
53% of AMERICAN LEGION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN LEGION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 funders by total. 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
100% of AMERICAN LEGION's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
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.
Against its field
AMERICAN LEGION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,130 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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 (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being Colorado Veterans Resource Coalition ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN LEGION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,000 in grants to AMERICAN LEGION.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN LEGION?
- Colorado Veterans Resource Coalition is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 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 Colorado. 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 2020–2024), 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