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American Legion Post #173

American Legion Post #173 (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being NRA FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$145k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$513k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What American Legion Post #173 does

Mission

To maintain a club that supports local veterans and helps the local community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To maintain a club that supports local veterans and helps the local community.

    $113,292 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $113,292.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($105k) Expenses 100 ($82k) Net assets 100 ($368k)2018 Revenue 147 ($155k) Expenses 140 ($115k) Net assets 111 ($408k)2019 Revenue 135 ($142k) Expenses 153 ($125k) Net assets 115 ($424k)2020 Revenue 84 ($89k) Expenses 101 ($82k) Net assets 117 ($430k)2021 Revenue 137 ($144k) Expenses 156 ($127k) Net assets 122 ($447k)2022 Revenue 127 ($134k) Expenses 137 ($112k) Net assets 128 ($469k)2023 Revenue 106 ($112k) Expenses 138 ($113k) Net assets 127 ($468k)2024 Revenue 104 ($110k) Expenses 118 ($97k) Net assets 131 ($481k)2025 Revenue 137 ($145k) Expenses 139 ($113k) Net assets 139 ($513k)
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Revenue (137)Expenses (139)Net assets (139)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 2017 to 2018, from $368k to $408k (+11%).

$368k
$408k
$424k
$430k
$447k
$469k
$469k
$483k
$514k
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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
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

7% of American Legion Post #173’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 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$23k
’17
$40k
’18
$16k
’19
$6k
’20
$17k
’21
$22k
’22
−$1k
’23
$13k
’24
$31k
’25
15
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.

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Listed888887778
Joined·+3+0+0+2+0+0+0+2
No longer listed·30021001
03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

Against its field

American Legion Post #173 runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · above the median
Months of reserve14.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like American Legion Post #173

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 Indiana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

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 Post #173: 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 #173?
American Legion Post #173 (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being NRA FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does American Legion Post #173 have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to American Legion Post #173.
Who is the largest funder of American Legion Post #173?
NRA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like American Legion Post #173 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 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