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.
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.
- Disabled American Veterans of Minnesota Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- American Legion Post #580shared fundersportfolio match
- Community Charities of Minnesotashared fundersportfolio 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: 2017 13% · 2018 14% · 2019 8% · 2020 11% · 2021 12% · 2022 13% · 2023 12% · 2024 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. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
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.
- Disabled American Veterans of Minnesota Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchMN · backs 9 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- American Legion Post #580shared fundersportfolio matchMN · backs 3 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Community Charities of Minnesotashared fundersportfolio matchMN · backs 4 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- American Legion Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Legion Department of Ohio Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Castlerock Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Laborers International Union of North America - District Council of Mn and Ndportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United Statesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Hotel & Lodging Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Laborers Northwest Regional Organizing Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stillwateroak Park Heights Convention and Visitors Bureaushared fundersMN · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- 44 North Foundation Incshared fundersMN · backs 6 organizations that share your funders
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 MINNESOTA
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 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.
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 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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