American Legion Child Welfare Foundation Inc

Analysis

American Legion Child Welfare Foundation Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Indianapolis, IN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1956, 70 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, American Legion Child Welfare Foundation Inc reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.1m, leaving 21% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $1.3m (+12%), an average of +2.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, American Legion Child Welfare Foundation Inc sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within IN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Holy Trinity Episcopal School of Gainesville Inc ($1.3m), Cane River Children Services Incorporated ($1.3m) and Thomasville Community Resource Center ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 55% of the total. At year end it held assets of $13.3m against liabilities of $744k, net assets of $12.6m.