Arkansas · Nonprofit
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS (Arkansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $608,895 to it, the largest being Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States ($608,895). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $196k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $609k
- Net assets
- $347k
What Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Arkansas does
Mission
Assist veterans and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarships and savings bonds awarded to state winners of our annual oratory and written contests. This contest is open to any school aged child grades 7-12, usual number of participants is about 200. Also a scholarship is awarded to a son or daughter of a 60% disabled veteran.
$4,974 spent4% of program spendingMemorial flowers, needs to hospitalized veterans, needs for veterans in our two state veterans homes, needs for active duty veterans and families, dues to other vets organizations, special picnic for all veterans held in conjuction with other vets organizations and the state governors office.
$93,297 spent75% of program spendingIncentives to our members for recruiting new members and grant to our state service officers for books and computers.
$26,857 spent21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $125,128.
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.
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 $218k to $322k (+47%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 0% · 2021 36% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 3% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $65k → $68k.
From the IRS filings of VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS’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
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arkansas, across 1 state in all.
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.
Organizations like VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS
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 Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS: 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 OF ARKANSAS?
- VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS (Arkansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $608,895 to it, the largest being Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States ($608,895). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $608,895 in grants to VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS?
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States is the largest funder on record, with $608,895 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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