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DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES

DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,431,240 to it, the largest being Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States ($1,366,240). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$508k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$1.1M
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What Department of Maryland Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States does

Mission

The mission consists of veterans advocacy, historical education and commemoration, encouraging national security through support of our nation's men and women in uniform, promoting good citizenship and community service, encouraging america's youth to excel in athletics, community service and academics, facilitating direct assistance to needy military personnel and their families and to veterans and supporting post and district actions and activities that further these missions and promote the social well being of veterans and their families.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Member programs in accordance with mission.

    $567,591 spent$507,534 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $567,591.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($559k) Expenses 100 ($644k) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 99 ($554k) Expenses 108 ($697k) Net assets 90 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 99 ($551k) Expenses 104 ($670k) Net assets 81 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 91 ($508k) Expenses 93 ($601k) Net assets 75 ($1.1M)
2022202320242025
Revenue (91)Expenses (93)Net assets (75)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.4M to $1.3M (−10%).

$1.4M
$1.3M
$1.1M
$1.1M
2022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$85k
’22
−$143k
’23
−$119k
’24
−$93k
’25
2.5
months of
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.

2022202320242025
Listed6669
Joined·+3+3+3
No longer listed·330
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $148k → $151k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
2
2
2
2
1

From the IRS filings of DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND 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.

How concentrated its funding is

DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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 MARYLAND VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES.

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 88% · 2022 77% · 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 MARYLAND VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states in all.

MO
MD

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Maryland 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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 1%Fundraising 4%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES?
DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,431,240 to it, the largest being Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States ($1,366,240). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,431,240 in grants to DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES?
Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States is the largest funder on record, with $1,366,240 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND 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 Maryland. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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