Fort Bellefontaine Memorial Post 335 American Legion Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 436052814
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2024–2024
Forms available: Form 990 2012, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2016
Location: Saint Louis, MO, USA
Phone: 3145183732
Rating: 69
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue: $246
Expenses: $13,868
Assets: $93,560
Liabilities: $0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

People named in this filing

Anthony Smith (Commander)
Charles Schumacher (Financial officer)
Bobby Ray Smith (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Support and community gathering for former members of the armed services and providing grants and community support for local charitable organizations.

What it reported doing in 2024

Support for local charitable organizations

Operating model

Revenue model: Investment-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
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

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 some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 69
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 41
Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
Program expense ratio: 17.9%; rating input score 18

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: -5,537.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.75; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: Limited
Revenue growth: -13.2% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 17.9% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
Schedules: 1 filed schedules
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.

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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 18/100.
Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.