Tennessee · Nonprofit
AMERICAN LEGION POST NO 2
AMERICAN LEGION POST NO 2 (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,100 to it, the largest being STOWERS MACHINERY FOUNDATION INC ($5,600). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $82k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $238k
What American Legion Post No 2 does
Mission
American legion post for veterans
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Assist veterans with various services such as food, housing, benefits, etc.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $133k to $208k (+56%).
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.
99% of AMERICAN LEGION POST NO 2’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $4k.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN LEGION POST NO 2’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.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN LEGION POST NO 2 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 50% · 2021 75% · 2022 71% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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 NO 2's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
AMERICAN LEGION POST NO 2 has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,192 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,192 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Organizations like AMERICAN LEGION POST NO 2
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 Tennessee
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 POST NO 2: 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 NO 2?
- AMERICAN LEGION POST NO 2 (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,100 to it, the largest being STOWERS MACHINERY FOUNDATION INC ($5,600). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN LEGION POST NO 2 have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,100 in grants to AMERICAN LEGION POST NO 2, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN LEGION POST NO 2?
- STOWERS MACHINERY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN LEGION POST NO 2 find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 2 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