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Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United S Tates Auxiliary

The auxiliary's objectives are fraternal, patriotic, histroical and educational. They include assisting the posts and members of the veterans of foreign wars, maintaining true allegiance to the united states of america and fidelity to its constitution and laws, fostering true patriotism, maintaining and extending the institutions of…

$1.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Itemized grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
60%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$380k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$219,755
Organizations funded a year
3 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$155M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United S Tates Auxiliary funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$380k50%
FY20235$365k60%
FY20227$289k43%
FY20213$282k0%
FY20206$290k50%
FY20194$297k25%
FY20184$257k50%
FY20174$270kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$1.3MHealth$671kPublic Benefit$406kArts & Culture$8k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MI
NY
MA
CA
UT
MO
KY
AZ
AR
TN
HI
OK
LA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
VFW National Home$1,316,68394%
Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States$406,30090%
University of Texas$225,0005n/a
Bay Pines Foundation Inc$75,00019%
The Jackson Laboratory$65,00040%
University of Rochester$50,00010%
St Joseph's Foundation$50,00011%
University of Utah$50,0001n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$25,00010%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$25,00010%
Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United S Tates Auxiliary by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
VFW National Home$1,316,68394%
Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States$406,30090%
University of Texas$225,0005n/a
Bay Pines Foundation Inc$75,00019%
The Jackson Laboratory$65,00040%
University of Rochester$50,00010%
St Joseph's Foundation$50,00011%
University of Utah$50,0001n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$25,00010%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$25,00010%
University of Arkansas Foundation Inc$25,00010%
University of Hawaii Foundation$25,00010%
University of Louisville Foundation Inc$25,00010%
The University of Florida Foundation Inc$25,00010%
Gary Sinise Foundation$10,00010%
Honor Bunker Inc$10,00012%
Veteran Flowers and Flags$9,0001n/a
Operation Song Inc$8,00015%
Warrior Horse Inc$6,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United S Tates Auxiliary supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVFW National Home: $1,316,683 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetVeterans of Foreign Wars of The United States: $406,300 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBay Pines Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetThe Jackson Laboratory: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Rochester: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Joseph's Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arkansas Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Hawaii Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Louisville Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Florida Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGary Sinise Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHonor Bunker Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOperation Song Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 4.5% 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 15.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United S Tates Auxiliary

How much does Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United S Tates Auxiliary give?
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United S Tates Auxiliary reported 6 itemized grants totaling $379,755, out of $1,227,160 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United S Tates Auxiliary fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (55%), Health (28%), Public Benefit (17%).
Who are Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United S Tates Auxiliary's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: VFW National Home ($1.3M), Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States ($406k), University of Texas ($225k).
Does Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United S Tates Auxiliary fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United S Tates Auxiliary?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United S Tates Auxiliary based?
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United S Tates Auxiliary is based in MO.

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 19 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 2024, released 2024. 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 $1.1M 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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