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DEPARTMENT OF MAINE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES

DEPARTMENT OF MAINE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $567,357 to it, the largest being Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States ($567,357). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$361k
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$567k
Grants received
$712k
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($389k) Expenses 100 ($327k) Net assets 100 ($565k)2019 Revenue 98 ($383k) Expenses 98 ($322k) Net assets 111 ($626k)2020 Revenue 80 ($311k) Expenses 85 ($278k) Net assets 117 ($659k)2021 Revenue 82 ($320k) Expenses 91 ($297k) Net assets 121 ($681k)2022 Revenue 73 ($283k) Expenses 78 ($257k) Net assets 125 ($708k)2023 Revenue 89 ($347k) Expenses 101 ($330k) Net assets 128 ($724k)2024 Revenue 88 ($341k) Expenses 103 ($337k) Net assets 129 ($728k)2025 Revenue 93 ($361k) Expenses 115 ($377k) Net assets 126 ($712k)
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Revenue (93)Expenses (115)Net assets (126)

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$62k
’18
$61k
’19
$33k
’20
$22k
’21
$27k
’22
$17k
’23
$4k
’24
−$16k
’25
23
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $61k → $63k.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
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'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of DEPARTMENT OF MAINE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.

Where its funders are

DEPARTMENT OF MAINE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 1 state in all.

MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
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’22
’23
Maine out of state home

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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding DEPARTMENT OF MAINE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $398k on record.

Federal$398k
grants $398kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$347k
  • Department of Labor$51k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like DEPARTMENT OF MAINE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Maine

American Legion - Maine Department82%American Legion Department of Maine Foundation79%Honor Flight Maine Inc77%Maine Music Educators Association77%The American Legion Post 8676%Maine Education Association76%Eighth Maine Regiment Memorial Association75%Maine College of Health Professions75%

Nationally

Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept VFW Mass87%Veterans of Foreign Wars84%Veterans of Foreign Wars State of Nh84%Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United S Tates Auxiliary84%Disabled American Veterans Department of Minnesota Inc84%Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Minnesota83%Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of TX82%Veterans of Foreign Wars Benson Post 250382%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

22
board members
50%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEPARTMENT OF MAINE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES: 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 MAINE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES?
DEPARTMENT OF MAINE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $567,357 to it, the largest being Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States ($567,357). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DEPARTMENT OF MAINE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $567,357 in grants to DEPARTMENT OF MAINE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DEPARTMENT OF MAINE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES?
Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States is the largest funder on record, with $567,357 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DEPARTMENT OF MAINE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing