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Stanley Post 20 of the American Legion

Stanley Post 20 of the American Legion (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA TWINS COMMUNITY FUND ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$630k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$291k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Stanley Post 20 of the American Legion does

Mission

Support of veterans and their families and to promote Americanism activities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provided social and recreational activities for approximately 75 members.

  2. Participated in patriotic activities including 1 parades and posted flags on 2 cemetaries on Memorial Day.

  3. Provided support for a Legion Baseball team with approximately 30 members.

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($149k) Expenses 100 ($137k) Net assets 100 ($39k)2019 Revenue 136 ($203k) Expenses 131 ($179k) Net assets 162 ($63k)2020 Revenue 183 ($273k) Expenses 173 ($236k) Net assets 256 ($100k)2021 Revenue 203 ($302k) Expenses 198 ($270k) Net assets 341 ($133k)2022 Revenue 287 ($428k) Expenses 287 ($392k) Net assets 433 ($169k)2023 Revenue 303 ($453k) Expenses 304 ($415k) Net assets 536 ($209k)2024 Revenue 371 ($554k) Expenses 375 ($512k) Net assets 645 ($251k)2025 Revenue 422 ($630k) Expenses 432 ($590k) Net assets 748 ($291k)
'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (422)Expenses (432)Net assets (748)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 2024 to 2025, from $251k to $334k (+33%).

$39k
$63k
$100k
$133k
$169k
$209k
$251k
$334k
'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 94% · 2024 94% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of Stanley Post 20 of the American Legion’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’18
$24k
’19
$37k
’20
$33k
’21
$36k
’22
$38k
’23
$42k
’24
$40k
’25
5.3
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.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed6555466
Joined·+0+0+0+2+4+0
No longer listed·100320
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'17
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of Stanley Post 20 of the American Legion’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

Stanley Post 20 of the American Legion draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 1 state in all.

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

Against its field

Stanley Post 20 of the American Legion has grown faster than half of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · below the median
Months of reserve5.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)23% · above the median

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

Organizations like Stanley Post 20 of the American Legion

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 South Dakota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds Stanley Post 20 of the American Legion?
Stanley Post 20 of the American Legion (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA TWINS COMMUNITY FUND ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Stanley Post 20 of the American Legion have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to Stanley Post 20 of the American Legion.
Who is the largest funder of Stanley Post 20 of the American Legion?
MINNESOTA TWINS COMMUNITY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Stanley Post 20 of the American Legion find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 2018–2025), 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