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Phoenix Memorial Post VFW Post 5540

Phoenix Memorial Post VFW Post 5540 (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being NATIONAL GRANGE MUTUAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$205k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$500
Net assets
$358k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Phoenix Memorial Post VFW Post 5540 does

Mission

The organization provides small community activities and dinners in order to have funds to achieve its exempt purpose.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. A weekend of live music food games and entertainment.

    $23,580 spent$46,250 earned by the program
    68% of program spending
  2. Chicken barbeques Flag Sales Memorial Brick Sales

    $9,822 spent$16,599 earned by the program
    28% of program spending
  3. Childrens Christmas Party

    $1,349 spent$580 earned by the program
    4% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $34,751.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($165k) Expenses 100 ($168k) Net assets 100 ($249k)2018 Revenue 93 ($153k) Expenses 114 ($191k) Net assets 84 ($210k)2019 Revenue 84 ($138k) Expenses 88 ($148k) Net assets 80 ($200k)2020 Revenue 68 ($112k) Expenses 70 ($117k) Net assets 78 ($195k)2021 Revenue 91 ($150k) Expenses 82 ($138k) Net assets 130 ($324k)2022 Revenue 44 ($72k) Expenses 37 ($62k) Net assets 134 ($334k)2023 Revenue 150 ($247k) Expenses 164 ($275k) Net assets 123 ($306k)2024 Revenue 141 ($232k) Expenses 166 ($278k) Net assets 152 ($379k)2025 Revenue 125 ($205k) Expenses 206 ($345k) Net assets 144 ($358k)
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Revenue (125)Expenses (206)Net assets (144)

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 $195k to $324k (+66%).

$249k
$210k
$200k
$195k
$324k
$334k
$306k
$379k
$358k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’17
−$39k
’18
−$10k
’19
−$5k
’20
$12k
’21
$10k
’22
−$28k
’23
−$46k
’24
−$140k
’25
2.0
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.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed99999109
Joined·+0+1+1+2+2+0
No longer listed·011211
03Who funds it

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 Phoenix Memorial Post VFW Post 5540’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

Phoenix Memorial Post VFW Post 5540 draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.

NH

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

Organizations like Phoenix Memorial Post VFW Post 5540

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 New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 26%Fundraising 0%

Governance

124
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Phoenix Memorial Post VFW Post 5540: 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 Phoenix Memorial Post VFW Post 5540?
Phoenix Memorial Post VFW Post 5540 (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being NATIONAL GRANGE MUTUAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Phoenix Memorial Post VFW Post 5540 have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500 in grants to Phoenix Memorial Post VFW Post 5540.
Who is the largest funder of Phoenix Memorial Post VFW Post 5540?
NATIONAL GRANGE MUTUAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Phoenix Memorial Post VFW Post 5540 find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 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