C JAMES SMITH POST 6 OF THE AMERICAN LEGION
EIN 81-0219306 · Commemorative Events (A84)
What they do
C. JAMES SMITH POST 6 is A POST of THE AMERICAN LEGION. OUR PURPOSE is to UPHOLD and DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION of THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA/TO MAINTAIN LAW and ORDER, to FOSTER and PERPETUATE A ONE HUNDRED PERCENT AMERICANISM, to PRESERVE THE MEMORIES and INCIDENTS of OUR ASSOCIATION ON THE GREAT WAR to INCULCATE A SENSE of INDIVIDUAL OBLIGATION to THE COMMUNITY STATE and NATION/TO COMBAT THE AUTOCRACY of BOTH THE CLASSES and THE MASSES to MAKE RIGHT THE MASTER of MIGHT, to PROMOTE PEACE and GOODWILL ON EARTH, to SAFEGUARD and TRANSMIT to POSTERITY THE PRINCIPLES of JUSTICE, FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY, to CONSECRATE and SANCTIFY OUR COMRADESHIP BY OUR DEVOTION to MUTUAL HELPFULNESS.
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Money report from 2024The charity has a recent tax report to read.
They explain their jobThe charity tells us what it is trying to do.
They name their leaders3 people are listed in the latest report.
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Money in and money out
Reported spending amounts
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Leadership and board
Names, titles, time, and compensation below are reported by the organization on its Form 990.
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Board and leadership roster (3)
AARON LEYSVICE COMMANDER
JERRY COLLINSCOMMANDER
KEN BASSMANFINANCE OFFICER
About this charity
- Recognized since
- January 1946
- Location
- PO BOX 151, CHOTEAU, MT 59422-0151
- County
- Teton
- In care of
- % ALLEN B CALLENDER
- Primary officer
- JERRY COLLINS, COMMANDER
How to reach them
Filing and classification
- Latest tax year
- 2024
- Tax period began
- January 1, 2024
- Return type
- 990
- Tax preparer
- GARY KASPER & COMPANY INC
- NTEE classification
- Commemorative Events (A84)
- IRS tax category
- Commemorative Events