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Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United S Tates Auxiliary at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United S Tates Auxiliary

The auxiliary's objectives are fraternal, patriotic, histroical and educational.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$220k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $379,755, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,227,160 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $847,405 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $320k
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$155M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VFW NATIONAL HOME$219,755
HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION$50,000
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC$25,000
THE JACKSON LABORATORY$25,000
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%VFW NATIONAL HOME: $220k → 9%VFW NATIONAL HOME: $206k → 9%VFW NATIONAL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $184k → 9%VFW NATIONAL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $160k → 9%VFW NATIONAL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $145k → 9%VFW NATIONAL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $140k → 9%VFW NATIONAL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $132k → 9%VFW NATIONAL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $129k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 4 repeat orgs$418k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

$2.0M
$333k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+59%

Still filing today

75%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • VN
    VFW NATIONAL HOME
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +107%
  • VO
    Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States
    9× · 2017–2025 · $406k · revenue +13%
  • TJ
    THE JACKSON LABORATORY
    4× · 2018–2025 · $65k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • BP
    BAY PINES FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +68%
  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +19%
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +33%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
2
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine

Hjf partners to advance military medicine for our nations warfighters. as a global nonprofit organization authorized by congress, hjf provides scientific, administrative and program management services to researchers and clinicians. hjf…

Health
5
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
6
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
7
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
8
University Medical Center Inc

To provide care to our community and to serve as a major teaching hospital for education and training in medicine, dentistry, nursing, and allied health professions.

Health
9
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
10
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
11
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
12
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Florida Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VFW NATIONAL HOME: $1,316,683 · Human ServicesVFW NATIONAL HOMEST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesVeterans of Foreign Wars of The United States: $406,300 · OtherVeterans of Foreign Wars of The …UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $225,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXASUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH+1 more: $9,000 · OtherBAY PINES FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · HealthBAY PINES…THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $65,000 · HealthTHE JACKS…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 · HealthST JUDE C…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $25,000 · HealthDana-Farb…HONOR BUNKER INC: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $6,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyOPERATION SONG INC: $8,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$1,366,683Other$690,300Health$206,000Education$150,000Philanthropy$10,000Arts & Culture$8,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Bay Pines Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 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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