Indiana · Nonprofit
AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS (Indiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $510,036 to it, the largest being American Legion Child Welfare Foundation ($346,233). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $510k
- Net assets
- $57M
What American Legion Auxiliary National Headquarters does
Mission
The mission of the american legion auxiliary (ala) is to support the american legion and honor the sacrifice of those who serve by enhancing the lives of veterans, military, and their families, both at home and abroad. For god and country we advocate for veterans, educate our citizens, mentor youth, and promote patriotism, good citizenship, peace and security. Ala members are the female and male spouses, grandmothers, mothers, sisters and direct adopted female descendants of members of the american legion. Some members are veterans themselves.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Member and department supportthe ala supports its more than 545,000 members by providing guidance and information to advance the ala mission; addressing the needs of us veterans and military; communicating updates on national initiatives, legislation, and services that impact us veterans and military; access to member benefits and services; emergency assistance grants to members devastated by natural disasters and crises; awarding auxiliary scholarships; hosting national conventions, meetings, and other educational conferences; the national ala website; auxiliary magazine, social media posts, e- newsletters, brochures, and other ala media materials.
$5,613,727 spentof which $574,935 as grants$387,794 earned by the program73% of program spendingVeterans and military familiesthe ala develops, directs, and supports programs including rehabilitation support services for veterans and current military; ala poppy program, which enhances the lives of veterans and active-duty military; co-presenter of the national veterans creative arts festival, which supports art therapy rehabilitation initiatives at us department of veterans affairs facilities; national conferences and workshops to empower members to assist wartime veterans and their families; and conferences - national security, veterans issues, and supporting legislative priorities of the american legion.
$915,609 spentof which $22,000 as grants12% of program spendingYouth and education services expensesthe ala develops, directs, and/or supports programs and projects, including a) ala girls state and ala girls nation leadership programs for 9,000 high school students in a weeklong immersive learning government with 104 from ala girls state programs to serve as mock senators at ala girls nation for a week in washington, d.c.; b) multiple national scholarships; c) ala programs for its junior members; and d) programs that promote and educate about citizenship, americanism, u.s. Flag protocol, emergency preparedness, national security, veterans in classrooms, and u.s. Government and history.
$1,189,752 spentof which $184,250 as grants15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,719,088.
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.
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 $51M to $63M (+24%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Sara Riegel
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $20k → $116k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $880k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Legion Auxiliary Fndn). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS’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 AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 50% · 2019 94% · 2020 83% · 2021 87% · 2022 100% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
75% of AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
68% of AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
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In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- American Legion Auxiliary Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS?
- AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS (Indiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $510,036 to it, the largest being American Legion Child Welfare Foundation ($346,233). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $510,036 in grants to AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS?
- American Legion Child Welfare Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $346,233 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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