American Legion Post 198
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382454450
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Lewiston, MI, USA
- Phone
- 9897863525
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $143,262
- Expenses
- $123,281
- Assets
- $388,174
- Liabilities
- $316
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Harry Vernon (President)
People named in this filing
- Harry Vernon (President)
- Mark Pagenkopf (Secretary)
- Irving Hamilton (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To maintain the post and promote comradery between past and present military members. To provide help to any veteran in need. To provide a military presence at community events like Memorial Day an Veterans Day and provide burial services for any deceased military member. To represent the armed forces in our community. to provide social, recreational and benevolent activities for members and their guests.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 92% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Transfer-based 990-EZ. The 990-EZ reports grants or member benefits, but it does not separate enough spending to show the nonprofit’s full delivery mix.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 1
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 1%; rating input score 1
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.9%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.15; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 109.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 1% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: Filed program service accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.