Missouri · Public charity
Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation
The vfw foundation's mission is to serve and enhance the lives of military veterans, service members, and their families by securing resources to promote positive outcomes.
- $5.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,606,270
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,606,270
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $5.6M | 50% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $3.2M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $2.6M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $2.7M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $3.0M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $2.4M | 60% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $2.6M | 73% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $2.3M | 94% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States | $25,837,514 | 9 | 5% |
| Park University | $80,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Operation Ramp It Up for Veterans | $68,900 | 2 | 28% |
| Vets Access | $67,585 | 3 | n/a |
| WeBe Life Foundation Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 67% |
| Purple Hearts Reunited Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 8% |
| The Give an Hour Nonprofit Corporation | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ageless Aviation Dreams Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 5% |
| America's Warrior Partnership Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Gratitude Initiative | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 44 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States · Veterans United Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust · Bnsf Railway Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
Compare Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation with peer funders
About Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation
- How much does Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation give?
- Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $5,704,765 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (99%), Education (0%), Public Benefit (0%).
- Who are Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States ($26M), Park University ($80k), Operation Ramp It Up for Veterans ($69k).
- Does Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States, Veterans United Foundation, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation.
- Where is Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation based?
- Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation is based in MO.
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