Illinois · Nonprofit
DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS VETERANS OF FOREI
DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS VETERANS OF FOREI (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,307,251 to it, the largest being Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States ($2,298,568). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Department of Illinois Veterans of Forei does
Mission
The purpose of this organization shall be fraternal, patriotic, historical, and educational; to preserve and strengthen comradeship amoung its members; to assist worthy comrades; to perpetuate the memory and history of the dead; and to assist their widows and orphans.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The illinois department provides services to veterans through a veterans service office. The service office is co-located with the va regional office in chicago. The service office works together with field offices of the illinois department of veterans affairs, county veterans assistance commissions throughout the state and vfw post service officers to provide assistance and advice to veterans and their families.services provided by the service office are available to all veterans, their dependents and survivors without regard to organization membership status or era of service. Services are provided at no cost.
The illinois department provides membership services to veterans by holding an annual convention, initiating community service activities, providing recognition awards, offering rememberance services, and issuing a quarterly newspaper.
The illinois department supports the voice of democracy youth activity program. The voice of democracy program provides high school students with the opportunity to express themselves in regards to a democratic and patriotic-themed essay. Essays are then chosen for special recognition via an awards banquet and scholarships.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.0M to $2.6M (+29%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2021 16% · 2022 6% · 2023 2% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $326k.
From the IRS filings of DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS VETERANS OF FOREI’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS VETERANS OF FOREI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS VETERANS OF FOREI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS VETERANS OF FOREI draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS VETERANS OF FOREI
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States · exempt
- Veterans Foundation of Illinois Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS VETERANS OF FOREI: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS VETERANS OF FOREI?
- DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS VETERANS OF FOREI (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,307,251 to it, the largest being Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States ($2,298,568). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS VETERANS OF FOREI have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $2,307,251 in grants to DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS VETERANS OF FOREI, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS VETERANS OF FOREI?
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States is the largest funder on record, with $2,298,568 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS VETERANS OF FOREI find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing