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VFW Auxiliary to Overland-St Ann Memorial Post No 3944

Civic organization with patriotic and educational purposes for members to raise funds to distribute to veterans and their families.

$93k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Human Services$166kArts & Culture$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$10k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $48,890, the rows itemized in this filing. The $93,081 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $44,191 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
$10,350
Median grant
3
States reached
$283k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STL VETERANS HOME ASSISTANCE LEAGUE$22,940
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS NATIONAL HOME FOR CHILDREN$10,350
THE KAUFMAN FUND$10,000
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC$5,600
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS NATIONAL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $12k → 9%VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS NATIONAL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $11k → 9%VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS NATIONAL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 9%STL VETERANS HOME ASSISTANCE LEAGUE: $23k → 11%THE KAUFMAN FUND: $10k → 11%THE KAUFMAN FUND: $10k → 11%THE KAUFMAN FUND: $6k → 11%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.
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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$90k · 3 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$90k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
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
    4× · 2023–2026 · $33k · revenue +81%
  • VO
    VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS AUXILIARY
    3× · 2023–2026 · $31k · revenue +38% · 27% of their budget
  • TK
    The Kaufman Fund
    4× · 2023–2026 · $26k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • VO
    VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 3944
    one grant, 2024 · $42k · revenue 0%
  • TB
    THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • MA
    MID AMERICAN VETERANS MUSEUM
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -12%
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
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the 6461

Veterans affairs

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2
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Department of Ohio

Support of veterans

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3
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Incorporated

To serve the needs of veterans of foreign wars and their families.

Public Benefit
4
Veterans of Foreign Wars Department

To support all veterans and the community

—
5
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the Us Dept of Mt

Service officers for filing and managing va claims. to assist the posts in providing services to members and their families for veterans of foreign wars.

Public Benefit
6
Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Oklahoma

Service to veterans

—
7
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United

Veterans organization

—
8
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United State Dept

To provide activities to honor veterans

—
9
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the 3904 Stewart Wendell

Veterans assistance

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10
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Louisiana

To serve and support Veterans, the military, and communities in Louisiana. To advocate on behalf of all Veterans

—
11
Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of New Jersey

Provide services, assistance and recognition to veterans of foreign wards and their families

—
12
Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Illinois

Help veterans with their health insurance and other benefits.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vfw National Home; the most unlike its peers is Stl Veterans Home Assistance League. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 3944: $42,000 · OtherVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 3944VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS AUXILIARY: $31,250 · OtherVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS AUXILIARYTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS: $10,000 · OtherTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF …FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $5,183 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCVFW NATIONAL HOME: $32,899 · Human ServicesVFW NATIONAL HOMEThe Kaufman Fund: $26,250 · Human ServicesThe Kaufman FundSTL Veterans Home Assistance League: $22,940 · Human ServicesSTL Veterans Home Assistance LeagueMID AMERICAN VETERANS MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $5,600 · Public Benefit
Other$88,433Human Services$82,089Arts & Culture$10,000Public Benefit$5,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 3944: $42,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetVFW NATIONAL HOME: $32,899 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS AUXILIARY: $31,250 over 3y, 27% of budgetThe Kaufman Fund: $26,250 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSTL Veterans Home Assistance League: $22,940 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMID AMERICAN VETERANS MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $5,183 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization VFW Auxiliary to Overland-St Ann Memorial Post No 3944 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from VFW Auxiliary to Overland-St Ann Memorial Post No 3944. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
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    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 9 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2026) is on record and reports $78k 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 FY2025, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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