· Public charity
Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States
The organization's purpose is to provide fraternal, patriotic, historical, and educational services; to preserve and strengthen comradeship among members; to assist worthy veterans; to perpetuate the memory and history of our dead, and to assist their widows and orphans; to maintain true allegiance to the government of the united states…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 96 grants below total $8,460,646 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,258,266 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,797,620 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $150k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $580k
- $50k–250k38 grants · $4.2M
- $250k+9 grants · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VFW Department of California | $651,660 |
| VFW Department of Pennsylvania | $466,473 |
| VFW Department of Texas | $449,872 |
| VFW Department of Florida | $380,868 |
| VFW Department of New York | $363,878 |
| VFW Department of Illinois | $325,738 |
| VFW Department of Ohio | $311,262 |
| VFW Department of North Carolina | $290,893 |
| VFW Department of Michigan | $283,052 |
| VFW Department of New Jersey | $231,175 |
| VFW Department of Washington | $212,493 |
| VFW Department of Wisconsin | $208,975 |
| VFW Department of Virginia | $198,368 |
| VFW Department of Minnesota | $193,093 |
| VFW Department of Missouri | $192,216 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $759k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
111 repeat relationships — 81 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $204k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- VOVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA9× · 2017–2025 · $5.8M · revenue +26% · 39% of their budget
- VOVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE VFW-PENN9× · 2017–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +29%
- VOVeterans of Foreign Wars Dept of TX9× · 2017–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +274%
Funded once
- USUNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARSone grant, 2017 · $400k · revenue -46%
- BGBRIGADIER GENERAL CHARLES E MCGEE POST 341 VFWone grant, 2018 · $31k
- CACSM A C COTTON POST 12209 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARSone grant, 2022 · $19k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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…
To serve living veterans through community service, national security and a strong national defense.
To provide activities to honor veterans
To support Veterans of Foreign Wats per national charter
To serve the needs of veterans of foreign wars and their families.
Support of veterans
Veterans service organization; to promote patriotism; to maintain and extend the institutions of american freedom. the vfw sponsors more than 500 service projects and donates over 8,000 hours annually to serve our local community
The vfw has been supporting and honoring the military veterans and their families since 1914.
Service Members, Award Scholarships, Support Local Community Events and Charitable Organizations.
Help veterans with their health insurance and other benefits.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Mo and the most unlike its peers is Grunt Style Foundation. 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 51 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
152 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 152 of the 204 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE VFW-PENN ↗
- Who funds Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of TX ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES INC DEPT OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES-DEPT OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE US DEPT OF OHIO ↗
- Who funds Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Michigan ↗
- Who funds DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS VETERANS OF FOREI ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF NC ↗
- Who funds DEPARTMENT OF WISCONSIN OF THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS STATE OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPT OF MO ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPT OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPT VFW MASS ↗
- Who funds Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Indiana ↗
- Who funds DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED S TATES AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept ↗
- Who funds Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Georgia ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept VFW KY ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEPARTMENT OF SC VFW OF UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds DEPARTMENT OF ALABAMA VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF U S DEPT OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds VFW NATIONAL HOME ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPT OF NV ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF NEW MEXICO OF THE U S ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS STATE OF NH ↗
- Who funds DEPARTMENT OF MAINE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF CONNECTICUT ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States 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.
- National Shooting Sports Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
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.