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VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT

VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,900 to it, the largest being INDEPENDENT GROUP HOME LIVING FOUNDATION INC ($5,900). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$162k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$7k
Net assets
$144k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Veterans of Foreign Wars Department does

Mission

To support all veterans and the community

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. aid veterans in reassimiliating into the community SUPPORT VETERANS

    $183,188 spent$158,028 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $183,188.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($73k) Expenses 100 ($72k) Net assets 100 ($38k)2021 Revenue 139 ($102k) Expenses 130 ($93k) Net assets 123 ($47k)2022 Revenue 192 ($140k) Expenses 172 ($123k) Net assets 167 ($64k)2023 Revenue 306 ($223k) Expenses 170 ($122k) Net assets 433 ($165k)2024 Revenue 223 ($162k) Expenses 256 ($183k) Net assets 378 ($144k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (223)Expenses (256)Net assets (378)

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 $64k to $165k (+159%).

$38k
$47k
$64k
$165k
$144k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 3% · 2023 3%. 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 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$1k
’20
$9k
’21
$17k
’22
$101k
’23
−$21k
’24
9.4
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed44444
Joined·+1+0+0+1
No longer listed·1001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT’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

VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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

86% 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 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT.

86%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

100% of VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

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 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT

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

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
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 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT: 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 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT?
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,900 to it, the largest being INDEPENDENT GROUP HOME LIVING FOUNDATION INC ($5,900). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $6,900 in grants to VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT.
Who is the largest funder of VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT?
INDEPENDENT GROUP HOME LIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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