Minnesota · Nonprofit
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPT OF MINNESOTA
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPT OF MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,730,132 to it, the largest being Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States ($1,730,132). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Minnesota does
Mission
The veterans of foreign wars, department of minnesota,provides numerous services to military service members and their families through educational, medical, and rehabilitative programs in minnesota
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The department of minnesota, vfw claim service office assist honorable discharged veterans free of charge. This service helps veterans seeking benefits and entitlements from the va. The vfw claims office offers representation of these veterans before the board of appeals and other panels that determine disability claims for veterans
The vfw va hospital and scholarship programs grant va medical center veteranspatients and residents certain recreational opportunities
Vfw youth scholarship programs and competitive participation in various events allow minnesota youth to develop life skills in areas of speech, writing, and sports.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.1M to $2.6M (+23%).
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 20% · 2018 22% · 2019 14% · 2020 17% · 2021 9% · 2022 25% · 2023 17% · 2024 13% · 2025 13%. 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 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 $190k → $193k.
From the IRS filings of VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPT OF MINNESOTA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 funders by total. 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 DEPT OF MINNESOTA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, 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 DEPT OF MINNESOTA
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
45% 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 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPT OF MINNESOTA: 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 DEPT OF MINNESOTA?
- VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPT OF MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,730,132 to it, the largest being Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States ($1,730,132). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPT OF MINNESOTA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,730,132 in grants to VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPT OF MINNESOTA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPT OF MINNESOTA?
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States is the largest funder on record, with $1,730,132 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPT OF MINNESOTA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 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