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American Legion Post 416

American Legion Post 416 (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $750 to it, the largest being THE TOM PERRY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$294k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$750
Net assets
$6k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What American Legion Post 416 does

Mission

The American Legion was chartered and incorporated by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic veterans organization devoted to mutual helpfulness. It is the nations largest wartime veterans service orgnanization, comited to mentoring you

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. San Diegueto American Legion Post 416 600 members documented over 25,000 hours of community service to our active duty veterans and their families in San Diego County providing multiple visits to the VA Hospital, Balboa Naval medical Center and County Veterans Homes. Legions Baseball expanded in the state and specifically in Southern California due to the efforts of post 416. Held all standard events including Memorial Day, 4th of July, Veterans Day, Marine Corps birthday, educating the local community in civics, history and to more fully understand the sacrifices of their local neighbors and friends. Selected sponsored and supported 9 young men to attend Boys State.

    $255,476 spent$293,857 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $255,476.

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 ($224k) Expenses 100 ($204k) Net assets 100 ($154k)2018 Revenue 73 ($165k) Expenses 107 ($219k) Net assets 71 ($109k)2019 Revenue 158 ($354k) Expenses 144 ($295k) Net assets 109 ($168k)2020 Revenue 109 ($244k) Expenses 156 ($319k) Net assets 63 ($96k)2021 Revenue 52 ($117k) Expenses 48 ($99k) Net assets 74 ($114k)2022 Revenue 92 ($205k) Expenses 139 ($284k) Net assets 23 ($35k)2023 Revenue 173 ($388k) Expenses 197 ($401k) Net assets 14 ($22k)2024 Revenue 167 ($374k) Expenses 190 ($388k) Net assets 5 ($7k)2025 Revenue 131 ($294k) Expenses 145 ($296k) Net assets 4 ($6k)
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Revenue (131)Expenses (145)Net assets (4)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $100k to $205k (+104%).

$159k
$115k
$175k
$100k
$205k
$125k
$107k
$98k
$85k
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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: 2017 11% · 2019 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
’17
−$54k
’18
$59k
’19
−$75k
’20
$18k
’21
−$79k
’22
−$14k
’23
−$14k
’24
−$2k
’25
0.4
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.

'17'18'19'20'22'23'24'25
Listed510101012111212
Joined·+8+1+2·+0+5+3
No longer listed·312·143
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'22
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of American Legion Post 416’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 416 draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

FL

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 Post 416

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
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

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for American Legion Post 416: 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 416?
American Legion Post 416 (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $750 to it, the largest being THE TOM PERRY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does American Legion Post 416 have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $750 in grants to American Legion Post 416.
Who is the largest funder of American Legion Post 416?
THE TOM PERRY FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like American Legion Post 416 find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 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