AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY

As filed

Subsection

19

Classification

1000

Street

215 15TH ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Group exemption

A subordinate covered by the group exemption of AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY (EIN 35-0144340). matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

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.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $387,700

  Expenses

  $372,363

  Contributions

  $58,530

  Grants paid

  $155,541

• 2023

  Revenue

  $451,930

  Expenses

  $328,191

  Contributions

  $83,672

  Grants paid

  $91,916

• 2022

  Revenue

  $346,105

  Expenses

  $257,194

  Contributions

  $41,850

  Grants paid

  $74,066

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $341,182

  Expenses

  $271,645

  Assets (EOY)

  $603,099

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $302,441

  Expenses

  $274,881

  Assets (EOY)

  $533,562

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $305,395

  Expenses

  $249,088

  Assets (EOY)

  $506,002

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $258,899

  Expenses

  $294,594

  Assets (EOY)

  $449,695

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $281,168

  Expenses

  $231,420

  Assets (EOY)

  $485,390

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $284,432

  Expenses

  $316,951

  Assets (EOY)

  $435,642

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $288,634

  Expenses

  $181,580

  Assets (EOY)

  $468,161

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $281,044

  Expenses

  $275,552

  Assets (EOY)

  $361,107

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $269,708

  Expenses

  $185,527

  Assets (EOY)

  $355,615

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $152,659

  Assets (EOY)

  $271,434

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• VARIOUS GRANTS UNDER 5000

  $95,541

  2025

• VARIOUS GRANTS UNDER 5000

  $82,916

  2023

• SANTA ANA COLLEGE FOUNDAITON

  $24,000

  2025 · SCHOLARSHIP FUND

• AMERICAN LEGION DEPT OF CALIF

  $12,000

  2025 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• FULLERTON COLLEGE STUDENT VET

  $12,000

  2025 · SCHOLARSHIP FUND

• SANTIAGO COMMUNITY COLLEGE

  $12,000

  2025 · SCHOLARSHIP FUND

• AMERICAN LEGION DEPT OF CALIF

  $9,000

  2023

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Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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