California · Nonprofit
THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA
THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,590 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- California Court Appointed Special Advocate Associationshared funders
- American Legion Department of Ohio Charities Incportfolio match
- American Legion Charities Incportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA’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
THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
“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 THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA's grant income comes from California funders.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- California Court Appointed Special Advocate Associationshared fundersCA · backs 15 organizations that share your funders
- American Legion Department of Ohio Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Legion Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United Statesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The American Legion National Emergency Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Help the Vets Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Disabled American Veteransportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Combat Veterans Motorcycle Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Disabled American Veterans of Minnesota Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Disabled American Veterans Department of Missouri Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wounded Warriors Family Support Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA?
- THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,590 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $51,590 in grants to THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA?
- CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA 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.
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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing