American Legion Adams-stierlen Post 311
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 416037138
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2007
- Location
- Elysian, MN, USA
- Phone
- 5073275746
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $100,572
- Expenses
- $109,118
- Assets
- $337,120
- Liabilities
- $5,095
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- JEFF BARTELT (MEMBER AT LARGE): $24,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The american legion is operated to provide support and facilities to veterans for programs and social activities. To educate the general public about patriotism and support community projects, youth activities and local organizations.
What it reported doing in 2025
Operation of the american legion post provides support to members and their families. It also provides suport to local organizations, youth activities and community events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 75% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 62
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 96%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.5%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.09; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $105K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $24K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.