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AMERICAN LEGION 659 BELLIZZI MACRAE

AMERICAN LEGION 659 BELLIZZI MACRAE (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $97,156 to it, the largest being PRAIRIE MEADOWS RACE TRACK AND CASINO INC ($97,156). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$95k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$97k
Net assets
$351k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What American Legion 659 Bellizzi Macrae does

Mission

To promote the principles of the national constitution of the american legion

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Service to american war veterans, including assisting veterans and their families to obtain benefits guaranteed by laws of the state and federal governments.

  2. Assisting local schools in areas such as flag etiquette, sponsorship for boys and girls state oratorical contests and obtaining scholarships for local students.

  3. Recreational programs, such as golf, bowling, softball, picnics and trips to local events.

  4. Involvement in community activities such as blood drives, clean-ups, boy scouts, and memorial services, hospital services, marching units and similar events.

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

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 ($54k) Expenses 100 ($56k) Net assets 100 ($253k)2018 Revenue 95 ($51k) Expenses 93 ($52k) Net assets 100 ($252k)2019 Revenue 102 ($55k) Expenses 88 ($49k) Net assets 102 ($258k)2020 Revenue 0 ($-96) Expenses 48 ($27k) Net assets 91 ($231k)2021 Revenue 70 ($38k) Expenses 48 ($27k) Net assets 96 ($242k)2022 Revenue 182 ($98k) Expenses 73 ($41k) Net assets 118 ($299k)2023 Revenue 178 ($95k) Expenses 77 ($43k) Net assets 139 ($351k)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (178)Expenses (77)Net assets (139)

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 $242k to $299k (+24%).

$253k
$252k
$258k
$231k
$242k
$299k
$351k
2017201820192020202120222023
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
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’17
−$992
’18
$6k
’19
−$27k
’20
$11k
’21
$57k
’22
$53k
’23
31
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.

2017201820192020202120222023
Listed8888888
Joined·+0+0+0+1+1+1
No longer listed·000111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'21
'24*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN LEGION 659 BELLIZZI MACRAE’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

100% of AMERICAN LEGION 659 BELLIZZI MACRAE's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

IA

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 659 BELLIZZI MACRAE

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 Iowa

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN LEGION 659 BELLIZZI MACRAE: 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 659 BELLIZZI MACRAE?
AMERICAN LEGION 659 BELLIZZI MACRAE (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $97,156 to it, the largest being PRAIRIE MEADOWS RACE TRACK AND CASINO INC ($97,156). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN LEGION 659 BELLIZZI MACRAE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $97,156 in grants to AMERICAN LEGION 659 BELLIZZI MACRAE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN LEGION 659 BELLIZZI MACRAE?
PRAIRIE MEADOWS RACE TRACK AND CASINO INC is the largest funder on record, with $97,156 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN LEGION 659 BELLIZZI MACRAE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), 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