American Legion Post 1029 Island Park

Overview

Mission

The basic mission of the american legion, and post 1029, is the on-going fight for veterans' rights - past, present, and future. To this end, this post does its best to keep the community of island park informed about veteran's issues and the contributions made by veterans to keep america free. The three largest programs that this post conducts annually are the memorial day parade, the veterans day ceremony, and the visit to the post of the disabled veterans from st. Albans and northport va hospitals. New for 2023 in conjunction with the village of island park is the adoption an "honor our veterans banner program" the objective is to mount banners containing pictures of local veterans along the main thoroughfare in island park. The post organizes and conducts the annual memorial day parade for the village of island park. The parade serves as positive reinforcement to the community of the contributions of all veterans, living and deceased, in all the wars over the long and storied histo

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 77
• Transparency & Controls: 82
• Sustainability: 24
• Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 90.7% of revenue deployed · 53.7% of spending went to programs
• Governance: Filed governance answers
• Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
• Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
• Schedules: 1 filed schedules
• Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
• Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
• 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.

• Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
• High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
• High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
• High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
• Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.