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Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Washington at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2021 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 26 grants below total $671,333, the rows itemized in this filing. The $751,142 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $79,809 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans of Foreign Wars Post; 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.
03the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/15
Grantees still filing
6/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Washington funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Washington. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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