Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$716,881

Total expenses

$25,678

Contributions and grants received

$9,458

Grants paid

$2,950

Program service revenue

$6,922

Investment income

$700,501

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$826,361

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$826,361

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$23,416

Management and general expenses

$2,262

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$23,416

Program services were 91.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• BASEBALL: WESTWOOD SPONSORS A SENIOR TEAM FOR PLAYERS 19 AND UNDER AND A JUNIOR TEAM FOR PLAYERS 17 AND UNDER. THESE TEAMS ARE GEARED FOR THE SERIOUS PLAYER WHO INTENDS TO PLAY BASEBALL AT THE COLLEGIATE LEVEL. AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL IS ALSO A CHAMPION OF EQUALITY, MAKING TEAMMATES OUT OF YOUNG ATHLETES FROM ALL SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS. THE PROGRAM HAS BEEN A STEPPING STONE TO ADULTHOOD FOR MILLIONS OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO WOULD GO ON TO SERVE THEIR COUNTRY, RAISE FAMILIES OR PLAY THE SPORT AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS.

  Expenses $16,774

• BOYS STATE IS A PROGRAM OF THE AMERICAN LEGION DEVELOPED FROM THE CONCEPT THAT YOUTH SHOULD BE OFFERED A BETTER PERSPECTIVE OF THE PRACTICAL OPERATION OF GOVERNMENT: THAT THE INDIVIDUAL IS AN INTEGRAL PART AND COMMENSURATELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CHARACTER AND SUCCESS OF HIS GOVERNMENT. AS SUCH, IT IS AN ACTIVITY OF HIGH EDUCATIONAL VALUE, BORN OF A NEED FOR YOUTH TRAINING IN PRACTICAL CITIZENSHIP. TO ELABORATE BOYS STATE IS EASILY CLASSIFIED AS A LEADERSHIP ACTION PROGRAM WHERE QUALIFIED MALE HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS TAKE PART IN A PRACTICAL GOVERNMENT COURSE DESIGNED TO DEVELOP IN THE YOUNG CITIZENS A WORKING KNOWLEDGE OF THE STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT AND TO IMPRESS UPON THEM THE FACT THAT THEIR GOVERNMENT IS JUST WHAT THEY MAKE IT. TO SUMMARIZE BOYS STATE IS AN OBJECTIVE CITIZENSHIP TRAINING PROGRAM WHICH INCULCATES INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY TO THE COMMUNITY, STATE AND NATION. IT IS OPERATED ON THE BASIS OF THE POLITICAL GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION EXISTING IN MASSACHUSETTS, INCLUDING ALL LEVELS FROM THE MUNICIPALITY TO THE STATE.

  Expenses $3,321

• GIRLS STATE/GIRLS NATION PROGRAMS PROVIDE A NONPARTISAN PARTICIPATORY PROGRAM THAT TEACHES ELIGIBLE HIGH SCHOOL FEMALES RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP GROUNDED IN ETHICS, THE PRINCIPLES OF OUR NATION'S FOUNDERS AND RESPECT FOR GOD AND COUNTRY. HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS WHO HAVE COMPLETED THEIR JUNIOR YEAR SPEND AN INTENSIVE WEEK OF STUDY WORKING TOGETHER AS SELF-GOVERNING CITIZENS AT AUXILIARY SPONSORED GIRLS STATE PROGRAMS IN EVERY STATE. EXPENSES ASSOCIATED WITH ATTENDING THIS PROGRAM ARE PAID FOR BY WESTWOOD AMERICAN LEGION POST 320. PARTICIPANTS LEARN HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FUNCTIONING OF THEIR STATE'S GOVERNMENT IN PREPARATION FOR THEIR FUTURE ROLES AS RESPONSIBLE ADULT CITIZENS.

  Expenses $3,321

• THE AMERICAN LEGION, DEPARTMENT OF MASSACHUSETTS, INC. SPONSORS A "STUDENT TROOPER PROGRAM" IN COOPERATION WITH THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE POLICE ACADEMY EVERY YEAR.THE GOAL IS TO RECRUIT YOUTHS REPRESENTING ALL COMMUNITIES AND CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS AND TO INCREASE THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF THE JOB OF POLICE OFFICERS. THE PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO EXPOSE YOUNG ADULTS TO THE DEMANDS OF POLICE TRAINING AND TO DEVELOP BETTER RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE YOUTH OF OUR COMMUNITIES AND THE POLICE THAT SERVE THEM. THE STUDENT TROOPER PROGRAM IS AN INTENSIVE, ONE WEEK, RESIDENTIAL LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR YOUNG ADULTS, AGES 15 THRU 17. THE PROGRAM IS HELD AT THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE POLICE ACADEMY IN NEW BRAINTREE.THE AMERICAN LEGION ORATORICAL CONTEST EXISTS TO DEVELOP DEEPER KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION FOR THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. SINCE 1938, THE PROGRAM HAS PRESENTED PARTICIPANTS WITH AN ACADEMIC SPEAKING CHALLENGE THAT TEACHES IMPORTANT LEADERSHIP QUALITIES, THE HISTORY OF OUR NATION'S LAWS, THE ABILITY TO THINK AND SPEAK CLEARLY, AND AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES, RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP.

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Assets distributed on this return

Schedule N, as filed: what the organization did with its assets when it liquidated or dissolved, or disposed of more than a quarter of them, and who received them. A recipient with an EIN is usually a successor organization; filers also list expenses such as legal fees here.

• TOWN OF WESTWOOD

  $700,000

  Disposition · BUILDING AND LAND · Nov 23, 2022 · TOWN GOVERNMENT

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

13 February 2023

IRS schema version

2022v4.1

Source object

202310449349300216

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