Michigan · Nonprofit
LEST WE FORGET OUR VETS INC
LEST WE FORGET OUR VETS INC (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $14,450 to it, the largest being WISNER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($14,450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $-4601
What Lest We Forget Our Vets Inc does
Mission
Provide therapeutic tricycles called AmTrykes to veterans and seniors with mobility impairment. Donations were secured to purchase the AmTrykes and provide them to recipients at no cost to them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provide therapeutic tricycles called AmTrykes to veterans and seniors with mobility impairment. Funding through hat sales and donations was secured to purchase the Amtrykes and provide them to recipeints at no cost to them. Host meetings for senior veterans at various senior living facilities in the area. Provide snacks, speakers and conversation to veteran residents.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $4k to $132 (−97%).
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.
25% of LEST WE FORGET OUR VETS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $4k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of LEST WE FORGET OUR VETS INC’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
100% of LEST WE FORGET OUR VETS INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
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.
Against its field
LEST WE FORGET OUR VETS INC has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LEST WE FORGET OUR VETS INC
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In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEST WE FORGET OUR VETS INC?
- LEST WE FORGET OUR VETS INC (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $14,450 to it, the largest being WISNER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($14,450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEST WE FORGET OUR VETS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $14,450 in grants to LEST WE FORGET OUR VETS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEST WE FORGET OUR VETS INC?
- WISNER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $14,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEST WE FORGET OUR VETS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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