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AMERICAN LEGION POST 169 INC

AMERICAN LEGION POST 169 INC (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,000 to it, the largest being BALZEKAS FAMILY FOUNDATION LTD ($3,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$125k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$3k
Net assets
$144k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What American Legion Post 169 Inc does

Mission

Operation of bar and social club for current and former members of armed forces

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide social, recreational and educational activites to past and present members of the armed forces

    $108,929 spentof which $655 as grants$120,700 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $108,929.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($77k) Expenses 100 ($171k) Net assets 100 ($128k)2023 Revenue 182 ($140k) Expenses 75 ($128k) Net assets 112 ($143k)2024 Revenue 163 ($125k) Expenses 72 ($124k) Net assets 113 ($144k)
202020232024
Revenue (163)Expenses (72)Net assets (113)Peer revenue range

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 $145k to $146k (+1%).

$128k
$145k
$146k
202020232024
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.

2020
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

4% of AMERICAN LEGION POST 169 INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,561 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

−$94k
’20
$12k
’23
$1k
’24
9.0
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.

202020232024
Listed968
Joined··+2
No longer listed··0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN LEGION POST 169 INC’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

AMERICAN LEGION POST 169 INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state in all.

IL

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

Against its field

AMERICAN LEGION POST 169 INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,130 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve9.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like AMERICAN LEGION POST 169 INC

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 Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN LEGION POST 169 INC: 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 POST 169 INC?
AMERICAN LEGION POST 169 INC (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,000 to it, the largest being BALZEKAS FAMILY FOUNDATION LTD ($3,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN LEGION POST 169 INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,000 in grants to AMERICAN LEGION POST 169 INC.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN LEGION POST 169 INC?
BALZEKAS FAMILY FOUNDATION LTD 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 POST 169 INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 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