How much does Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 494 give?

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 494 reported 6 itemized grants totaling $87,000, out of $236,335 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 494 fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (38%), Human Services (23%), Food & Nutrition (20%).

Who are Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 494's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Crescent Cove ($87k), North Suburban Emergency Assistance Response Inc ($87k), Every Third Saturday Inc ($54k).

Does Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 494 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 Post 494?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, The Graco Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.

Where is Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 494 based?

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 494 is based in MN.

Foundation Dossiers

Minnesota · Public charity

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 494

Enabling the care of the veteran, his widow and orphans.

$236k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 6
Itemized grants FY2025: 6
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $87k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $11,500
Largest grant, FY2025: $45,000
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 11; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $1.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 494 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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesPublic BenefitEmploymentOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	6	$87k	33%
FY2024	6	$75k	0%
FY2023	7	$86k	0%
FY2022	11	$250k	36%
FY2021	7	$133k	57%
FY2020	3	$45k	67%
FY2019	1	$33k	0%
FY2018	2	$37k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Public Benefit$251kHuman Services$150kFood & Nutrition$129kHealth$117kEducation$13k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Crescent Cove	$86,700	6	2%
North Suburban Emergency Assistance Response Inc	$86,700	6	3%
Every Third Saturday Inc	$53,500	5	1%
Veterans on the Lake Resort	$50,000	4	3%
Nami Minnesota	$13,500	2	0%
North Hennepin Community College Foundation	$11,500	1	2%
Rise Incorporated	$11,000	2	0%
Leader Dogs for the Blind	$10,000	1	0%
Park Center Dugout Club	$6,000	1	n/a

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($417k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 494 supplied at peak.

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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 8.

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.

Xcel Energy FoundationMN15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Post 494

How much does Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 494 give?: Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 494 reported 6 itemized grants totaling $87,000, out of $236,335 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 494 fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (38%), Human Services (23%), Food & Nutrition (20%).
Who are Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 494's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Crescent Cove ($87k), North Suburban Emergency Assistance Response Inc ($87k), Every Third Saturday Inc ($54k).
Does Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 494 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 Post 494?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, The Graco Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
Where is Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 494 based?: Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 494 is based in MN.