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AMERICAN LEGION POST 77

AMERICAN LEGION POST 77 (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13,888 to it, the largest being OWATONNA FOUNDATION INC ($13,888). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$224k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$14k
Net assets
$520k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What American Legion Post 77 does

Mission

Support the constitution and patriotism and provide services for veterans along with charitable endeavors for the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Organization provided members meeting and bar/restuarant facilities for veterans of foreign wars.

    $195,851 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $195,851.

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 ($236k) Expenses 100 ($241k) Net assets 100 ($209k)2018 Revenue 103 ($243k) Expenses 100 ($241k) Net assets 100 ($209k)2019 Revenue 97 ($229k) Expenses 99 ($238k) Net assets 98 ($205k)2020 Revenue 104 ($246k) Expenses 101 ($244k) Net assets 104 ($217k)2021 Revenue 104 ($244k) Expenses 68 ($163k) Net assets 145 ($302k)2022 Revenue 104 ($246k) Expenses 71 ($172k) Net assets 181 ($377k)2023 Revenue 107 ($253k) Expenses 83 ($199k) Net assets 201 ($419k)2024 Revenue 118 ($278k) Expenses 80 ($193k) Net assets 235 ($492k)2025 Revenue 95 ($224k) Expenses 81 ($196k) Net assets 249 ($520k)
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Revenue (95)Expenses (81)Net assets (249)

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 $428k to $514k (+20%).

$228k
$234k
$225k
$225k
$308k
$383k
$428k
$514k
$523k
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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 17% · 2021 8% · 2023 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
$2k
’18
−$9k
’19
$2k
’20
$81k
’21
$74k
’22
$53k
’23
$85k
’24
$28k
’25
25
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.

Board chair

Joe Falteysek

Funeral chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed991111911111112
Joined·+0+5+0+5+4+0+1+4
No longer listed·03072013
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
$14k
funders
1

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN LEGION POST 77’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 POST 77's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

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 77

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 Minnesota

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

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

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN LEGION POST 77: 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 77?
AMERICAN LEGION POST 77 (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13,888 to it, the largest being OWATONNA FOUNDATION INC ($13,888). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN LEGION POST 77 have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $13,888 in grants to AMERICAN LEGION POST 77.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN LEGION POST 77?
OWATONNA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $13,888 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN LEGION POST 77 find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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