South Dakota · Nonprofit
American Legion Boys State
American Legion Boys State (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,000 to it, the largest being WALTER AND VIRGINIA HAGER FOUNDATION ($3,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $39k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $58k
What American Legion Boys State does
Mission
Boys state is a program for young men who are entering their last year of high school in South Dakota to gain practical experience in the political process of government. The program is held during the last week of May on the campus of Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2025 195 South Dakota boys state attendees were educated in programs to assist them in understanding the duties, priveleges and responsibilities of American citizenship and gov
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2024 to 2025, from $71k to $58k (−18%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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 Boys State’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 Boys State's grant income comes from South Dakota 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.
Organizations like American Legion Boys State
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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for American Legion Boys State: 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 Boys State?
- American Legion Boys State (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,000 to it, the largest being WALTER AND VIRGINIA HAGER FOUNDATION ($3,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does American Legion Boys State have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,000 in grants to American Legion Boys State.
- Who is the largest funder of American Legion Boys State?
- WALTER AND VIRGINIA HAGER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like American Legion Boys State find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 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