American Legion Post 247 Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
582500584
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Dawsonville, GA, USA
Phone
6787732874
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Assets
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Edward Roach (CEO / Commander)

People named in this filing

  • Edward Roach (CEO / Commander)
  • Jerry Grogan (CFO)
  • Walter Hook (Sec / Adjutant)

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

American Legion Post 247 exists to support and care for local veterans, to mentor youth in the local community, and to promote patriotism at a local grassroots level.

What it reported doing in 2025

Post 247 encourages local high school & college bound students to excel in their academic pursuits and as an incentive grants scholarships to deserving students. During 2021, local chapter supported 1 local student by granting them a scholarship.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: NotEnoughData
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -16.6% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 1 of 1 current checks pass
  • Filing history: 11 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.