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Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Washington

Assist veterans and their families, community service

$751k
Granted FY2021
26
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$79k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2021 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 26 grants below total $671,333 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $751,142 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $79,809 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k8 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $409k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $204k
$21,995
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VFW Post 2669$78,655
VFW Post 992$65,337
VFW Post 2224$60,255
VFW Post 3057$46,711
VFW Post 51$46,020
VFW Post 1263$43,256
VFW Post 224$35,309
VFW Post 5878$29,643
VFW Post 9430$29,643
VFW Post 5760$28,745
VFW Post 6963$25,981
VFW Post 1949$25,065
VFW Post 3482$21,995
VFW Post 379$17,827
VFW Post 2713$17,748
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%VFW Post 2289: $5k → 9%VFW Post 5878: $30k → 9%VFW Post 91: $7k → 9%VFW Post 3482: $22k → 11%VFW Post 3213: $16k → 11%VFW Post 3057: $47k → 12%VFW Post 4760: $14k → 12%VFW Post 379: $18k → 12%VFW Post 51: $46k → 12%VFW Post 6963: $26k → 13%VFW Post 992: $65k → 13%VFW Posst 1045: $5k → 13%VFW Post 5564: $5k → 18%VFW Post 3348: $10k → 9%VFW Post 2329: $9k → 9%VFW Post 224: $35k → 12%VFW Post 4314: $8k → 9%VFW Post 11401: $10k → 9%VFW Post 1949: $25k → 9%VFW Post 2224: $60k → 9%VFW Post 1263: $43k → 9%VFW Post 2713: $18k → 9%VFW Post 9430: $30k → 9%VFW Post 5760: $29k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the 6461

Veterans affairs

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2
Veterans Foreign Wars

To support Veterans of Foreign Wats per national charter

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3
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Jurupa Post No 10267

To preserve & strengthen comradeship among the members who are past or present member of the Armed Forces of the United States; perpetuate the memory and history of the dead; assist widows & orphans; maintain allegiance to the government…

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4
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5365

To provide a social environment and support to Veterans of Foreign Wars.

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5
N Las Vegas Memorial Post Number 10047 Veterans of

To provide a meeting place for veterans

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6
Veterans of Foreign Wars-Post 10818

Serve the unmet needs of veterans and their families

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7
Veterans of Foreign Wars

Help Veterans with benefits

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8
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States

To provide community service while providing support and fellowship amoung veterans. also to provide for patriotic youth and community activities

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9
Vernon Hill Post 435 American Legion Fou Foundation (Prev Included Scholarship)
Philanthropy
10
Veterans of Foreign Wars

The vfw has been supporting and honoring the military veterans and their families since 1914.

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11
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the Us

That the mission of this corporation shall be fraternal, patriotic, historical, and educational to preserve and strengthen comradeship among its members to assist worthy comrade to perpetuate the memory and history of our dead,and to…

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12
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Department of Ohio

Support of veterans

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans of Foreign Wars Post and the most unlike its peers is Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3213. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr18%0%20–35yr13%91%35–55yr14%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr18%0%20–35yr13%93%35–55yr14%2%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%1/26
the rest of the field
13%
2,868/22,454

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/15
Grantees still filing
6/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FRED NEEDHAM VFW POST 2669 — $78,655 · OtherFRED NEEDHAM VFW POST 2669VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS — $65,337 · OtherVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARSVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS - NO 2224 — $60,255 · OtherVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS - NO 2224Veterans of Foreign Wars of the US Dept of WA 3057 Gen James H Doolittle S Beach — $46,711 · OtherVeterans of Foreign Wars of the US Dept of WA 3057 Gen James H Doolittle S BeachVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF WASHINGTON — $46,020 · OtherVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF WASHINGTONFRANK R VAISE POST 1263 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS — $43,256 · OtherFRANK R VAISE POST 1263 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARSVeterans of Foreign Wars US 224 — $35,309 · OtherVFW OF THE UNITED STATES 5878 GEORGE PENDARVIS — $29,643 · OtherVFW Post 9430 — $29,643 · OtherVFW Post 5760 — $28,745 · OtherVETERAN OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF WASHINGTON — $25,981 · OtherVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF WASHINGTON — $25,065 · Other+14 more — $156,713 · Other+14 more
Other$671,333

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ your 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
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Washington funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 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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