Michigan · Nonprofit
Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Michigan
Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Michigan (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,557,256 to it, the largest being Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States ($2,545,256). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Michigan does
Mission
Fraternal, patriotic, historical and educational service to veterans and their dependents. To promote programs that are fraternal and charitable in the nature in compliance with VFW objectives. To operate a camp for children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Michigan overseas veterans' publications and other.
$369 spent0% of program spendingService office and hospital program.
$1,293,021 spent$248,462 earned by the program99% of program spendingPrograms and support of VFW posts.
$11,131 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,304,521.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.1M to $5k (−100%).
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: 2020 58% · 2021 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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 broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $281k → $295k.
From the IRS filings of Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Michigan’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 of Michigan leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
100% 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 of Michigan.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — diversifying over time.
“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
Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Michigan draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states 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 Michigan
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- VFW Camp Trotter · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Michigan: 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 Michigan?
- Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Michigan (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,557,256 to it, the largest being Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States ($2,545,256). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Michigan have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,557,256 in grants to Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Michigan, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Michigan?
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States is the largest funder on record, with $2,545,256 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Michigan 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 2020–2025), 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