South Carolina · Nonprofit
LEXINGTON VFW POST 8738
LEXINGTON VFW POST 8738 (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,053 to it, the largest being Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States ($5,053). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $229k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $230k
What Lexington VFW Post 8738 does
Mission
The purpose is fraternal, patriotic, historical and educational;to preserve and strengthen comradship among its members; to assist worthy comrads; to preserve the memory and history or our dead and to assist their widows and orphans; and to maintain true allegiance to the government of the u.s. Of america, and fidelity to its contitution and laws; to foster true patriotism; to maintain and extend the institution of american freedom, and to preserve and defend the us from all her enemies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Annual golf tournament
$71 spent$6,608 earned by the program1% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$2,833 spent$15,084 earned by the program21% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$10,310 spent$223,613 earned by the program78% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,214.
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 $87k to $230k (+166%).
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.
30% of LEXINGTON VFW POST 8738’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of LEXINGTON VFW POST 8738’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
LEXINGTON VFW POST 8738 draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state in all.
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
LEXINGTON VFW POST 8738 has grown faster than half of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LEXINGTON VFW POST 8738
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEXINGTON VFW POST 8738: 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 LEXINGTON VFW POST 8738?
- LEXINGTON VFW POST 8738 (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,053 to it, the largest being Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States ($5,053). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEXINGTON VFW POST 8738 have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,053 in grants to LEXINGTON VFW POST 8738.
- Who is the largest funder of LEXINGTON VFW POST 8738?
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States is the largest funder on record, with $5,053 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEXINGTON VFW POST 8738 find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 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