Minnesota · Nonprofit
THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA
THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,016 to it, the largest being AMERICAN LEGION POST 491 HESLEY JENSEN ($77,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $84k
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What The American Legion Department of Minnesota does
Mission
To support american legion members and their programs in minnesota. The american legion was chartered and incorporated by congress in 1919 as a patriotic veterans organization devoted to mutual helpfulness. It is the nation's largest wartime veterans service organization, committed to mentoring youth and sponsorship of wholesome programs in our communities, advocating patriotism and honor, promoting strong national security, and continued devotion to our fellow service members and veterans.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Activities to support american legion members and programs in minnesota.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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.
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 $3.7M to $4.4M (+20%).
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: 2017 13% · 2018 14% · 2019 8% · 2020 11% · 2021 12% · 2022 13% · 2023 12% · 2024 13% · 2025 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. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $7k → $77k.
From the IRS filings of THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA’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 MINNESOTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 MINNESOTA's grant income comes from Minnesota 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.
Organizations like THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Minnesota American Legion Foundation · exempt
- The Minnesota Legionnaire Inc · exempt
- Mn American Legion Convention Corporation · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA: 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 THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA?
- THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,016 to it, the largest being AMERICAN LEGION POST 491 HESLEY JENSEN ($77,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $84,016 in grants to THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA.
- Who is the largest funder of THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA?
- AMERICAN LEGION POST 491 HESLEY JENSEN is the largest funder on record, with $77,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA 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.
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 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