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Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Washington

Assist veterans and their families, community service

$751k
Granted FY2021
26
Itemized grants FY2021
26
Organizations funded FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$671k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$21,995
Largest grant, FY2021
$78,655
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$2.4M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fred Needham VFW Post 2669$78,655138%
Veterans of Foreign Wars$65,337166%
Veterans of Foreign Wars - No 2224$60,2551n/a
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the US Dept of WA 3057 Gen James H Doolittle S Beach$46,711165%
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Washington$46,020149%
Frank R Vaise Post 1263 Veterans of Foreign Wars$43,256123%
Veterans of Foreign Wars US 224$35,309131%
VFW of the United States 5878 George Pendarvis$29,643148%
VFW Post 9430$29,6431n/a
VFW Post 5760$28,7451n/a
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All grantees of Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Washington by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fred Needham VFW Post 2669$78,655138%
Veterans of Foreign Wars$65,337166%
Veterans of Foreign Wars - No 2224$60,2551n/a
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the US Dept of WA 3057 Gen James H Doolittle S Beach$46,711165%
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Washington$46,020149%
Frank R Vaise Post 1263 Veterans of Foreign Wars$43,256123%
Veterans of Foreign Wars US 224$35,309131%
VFW of the United States 5878 George Pendarvis$29,643148%
VFW Post 9430$29,6431n/a
VFW Post 5760$28,7451n/a
Veteran of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Washington$25,9811n/a
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Washington$25,065136%
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Washington$21,9951n/a
Veterans of Foreign Wars 379$17,82718%
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Washington$17,7481n/a
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3213$16,30718%
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post$14,2341n/a
Blackburn-Aurora Post 3348 VFW$10,1571n/a
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the Unites States Dept of Washington$9,8121n/a
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2329$9,466160%
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Washington$8,2221n/a
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Washington$7,6001n/a
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 91 M/A Wild West Post 91 VFW$7,324117%
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Washington$5,3891n/a
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Washington$5,3201n/a
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Washington$5,3121n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Washington supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFred Needham VFW Post 2669: $78,655 over 1y, 38% of budgetVeterans of Foreign Wars: $65,337 over 1y, 66% of budgetVeterans of Foreign Wars of the US Dept of WA 3057 Gen James H Doolittle S Beach: $46,711 over 1y, 65% of budgetVeterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Washington: $46,020 over 1y, 49% of budgetFrank R Vaise Post 1263 Veterans of Foreign Wars: $43,256 over 1y, 23% of budgetVeterans of Foreign Wars US 224: $35,309 over 1y, 31% of budgetVFW of the United States 5878 George Pendarvis: $29,643 over 1y, 48% of budgetVeterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Washington: $25,065 over 1y, 36% of budgetVeterans of Foreign Wars 379: $17,827 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetVeterans of Foreign Wars Post 3213: $16,307 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetVeterans of Foreign Wars Post 2329: $9,466 over 1y, 60% of budgetVeterans of Foreign Wars Post 91 M/A Wild West Post 91 VFW: $7,324 over 1y, 17% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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About Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Washington

How much does Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Washington give?
Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Washington reported 26 itemized grants totaling $671,333, out of $751,142 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Washington fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2021, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (53%), Human Services (47%).
Who are Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Washington's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2021: Fred Needham VFW Post 2669 ($79k), Veterans of Foreign Wars ($65k), Veterans of Foreign Wars - No 2224 ($60k).
Where is Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Washington based?
Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Washington is based in WA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $81k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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