Form 990 for tax year 2025

Totals

Total revenue

$387,700

Total expenses

$372,363

Contributions and grants received

$58,530

Grants paid

$155,541

Program service revenue

$245,857

Investment income

$21,692

Other revenue

$61,621

Total assets, end of year

$0

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$0

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$0

Management and general expenses

$0

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$143,541

Program services were 0.0% 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 · 2025

• COMMUNITY SERVICES PROGRAM: Community Service embraces all activities for improvement of conditions of life in the community where the American Legion Auxiliary unit is located. It has been a major activity of The American Legion and Auxiliary since 1926, and has resulted in the completion of a vast number of projects to make American communities better places in which to live. Every Auxiliary Unit is expected to carry out or Cooperate in at least one project for community betterment each year.

  Expenses $71,730

• VETERANS AFFAIRS AND REHABILITATION: VA&R means the complete restoration of the veteran and his family to normal function and adjustment, physically, mentally, socially, and vocationally for the fullest possible life, compatible with his abilities and disabilities. The VA&R work of the American Legion Auxiliary includes bringing physical comfort and mental cheer to veterans in hospitals, aiding the disabled to earn money for the support of themselves and their families, and helping them to reestablish themselves in life. The American Legion Auxiliary cooperates with The American Legion in ALL its endeavors on behalf of veterans.To carry out the VA&R work effectively, a complete organization extending from the Unit to the National organization is necessary. Years of experience in rehabilitation have brought about systematizing of the activities which has proven to be the most efficient way to aid the different classes of disabled veterans. Unit VA&R workers should become familiar with the Department and National VA&R organizations and be able to use the services of these groups when necessary. Units should work closely with the VA&R Committees of their American Legion Posts and with other agencies in the community from which aid for the disabled is available.

  Expenses $34,763

• EDUCATION PROGRAM: The education of all of America's children is essential for the future of our nation. The American Legion Auxiliary joins with The American Legion to aid and support the basic rights of all children to receive an appropriate education. That education should prepare them for a fulfilling life. The pattern followed in the development of the program corresponds with the following objectives and policies adopted by The American Legion. 1. To help make it possible for a student, who has the ability or the desire, to receive an education beyond high school. 2. To encourage the members of The American Legion and its affiliated organizations to take an active part in the development and maintenance of a school system that will serve the needs of all children at every level of education. 3. To encourage students to select careers where personnel shortages exist.

  Expenses $27,805

• CHILDREN & YOUTH PROGRAMS: The purpose and principles of the American Legion Auxiliary's Children and Youth Program are in general the same as those of The American Legion. Although the program is derived from mandates of The American Legion, the Auxiliary augments and adds to it through its continuing support of the overall program as well as through the sponsorship of special assignments and activities. 1. To assure care and protection for children of veterans eligible for membership in The American Legion. 2. Education of the membership and the general public on the needs of the Military child and to recommend ways of meeting those needs.

  Expenses $9,243

• POPPY: More than 3,500,000 poppies made by disabled veterans are distributed on the streets under the supervision of the American Legion Auxiliary by approximately 125,000 volunteers. The memorial poppies are made of red crepe paper, by hand, by disabled veterans in hospitals and poppy workrooms in forty states, and the workers receive pay for each poppy made, the material being furnished free by the Department in the state in which the hospital is located. The total proceeds of over $2,100,000 are spent on programs devoted to Veterans Affairs and rehabilitation work by both The American Legion and Auxiliary, which includes aid to needy veterans and their families including more than $300,000 which is paid annually to needy and disabled service men and service women who make the poppies. The method of distribution varies in each Department, depending upon the nature of the demands for help. Each of our 10,500 Units in communities scattered all over the United States and its territorial possessions, and in foreign countries where veterans reside, maintains a Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation Committee working under a chairman, and a Children and Youth Committee with its chairman.

As filed on the 2025 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

• VARIOUS GRANTS UNDER 5000

  $95,541

• SANTA ANA COLLEGE FOUNDAITON

  $24,000

  SCHOLARSHIP FUND

• AMERICAN LEGION DEPT OF CALIF

  $12,000

  PROGRAM SUPPORT

• FULLERTON COLLEGE STUDENT VET

  $12,000

  SCHOLARSHIP FUND

• SANTIAGO COMMUNITY COLLEGE

  $12,000

  SCHOLARSHIP FUND

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY- CA DEPT

  C (19) · TO AID AMERICAN LEGION PROGRAMS · CA

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.

• 334177601

  $858,865

  Liquidation · CASH IN BANK · Jun 30, 2026 · 501(c)(19)

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2025

Filed

3 September 2026

IRS schema version

2025v4.1

Source object

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