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VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED S TATES AUXILIARY

VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED S TATES AUXILIARY (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $78,000 to it, the largest being VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPT OF WI LADIES AUXILIARY ($78,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$10M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$78k
Net assets
$117M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United S Tates Auxiliary does

Mission

The auxiliary's objectives are fraternal, patriotic, histroical and educational. They include assisting the posts and members of the veterans of foreign wars, maintaining true allegiance to the united states of america and fidelity to its constitution and laws, fostering true patriotism, maintaining and extending the institutions of american freedom and equal rights and justice to all men and women, and preserving and defending the united states of america from all her enemies whomsoever.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Cancer aid and research program: 1,333 grants totaling $733,150 were given to cancer-stricken members; and $100,000 was donated to cancer research institutions.

  2. Other community service activities: auxiliary and vfw members around the country conduct hundreds of joint activities to benefit their communities, like donating items to homeless shelters, conducting food drives, giving gifts to childrens hospitals, aiding victims of abuse, and cleaning up parks, memorials, and highways. Members also participate in the library of congress' veterans history project, make-a-difference day, and many other national volunteer initiatives.

  3. Veterans & family support: through this program, members help veterans and their families who are not hospitalized but have special needs such as assistance with utility bills, childcare, food, clothing, household goods & transportation. Auxiliaries also asked veteran service officers to present educational programs on veterans' entitlements.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

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 ($7.5M) Expenses 100 ($7.0M) Net assets 100 ($71M)2018 Revenue 103 ($7.8M) Expenses 99 ($6.9M) Net assets 110 ($78M)2019 Revenue 183 ($14M) Expenses 104 ($7.3M) Net assets 110 ($78M)2020 Revenue 179 ($14M) Expenses 96 ($6.7M) Net assets 120 ($85M)2021 Revenue 190 ($14M) Expenses 97 ($6.8M) Net assets 146 ($104M)2022 Revenue 179 ($14M) Expenses 100 ($7.0M) Net assets 119 ($84M)2023 Revenue 110 ($8.2M) Expenses 99 ($6.9M) Net assets 127 ($90M)2024 Revenue 115 ($8.7M) Expenses 98 ($6.9M) Net assets 150 ($106M)2025 Revenue 139 ($10M) Expenses 100 ($7.0M) Net assets 166 ($117M)
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Revenue (139)Expenses (100)Net assets (166)

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 $114M to $134M (+17%).

$99M
$107M
$108M
$114M
$134M
$116M
$123M
$141M
$155M
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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. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$510k
’17
$851k
’18
$6.5M
’19
$6.8M
’20
$7.6M
’21
$6.5M
’22
$1.3M
’23
$1.8M
’24
$3.5M
’25
0.7
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.

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Listed253941414141414141
Joined·+23+22+13+18+18+18+18+18
No longer listed·920131818181818
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $28k → $50k.

Funder
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States). These are real filings, and they are not money VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED S TATES AUXILIARY raised.

From the IRS filings of VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED S TATES AUXILIARY’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 OF THE UNITED S TATES AUXILIARY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 1 state in all.

WI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
Missouri out of state home

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

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In Missouri

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05Profile & governance

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

Governance

41
board members
78%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED S TATES AUXILIARY?
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED S TATES AUXILIARY (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $78,000 to it, the largest being VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPT OF WI LADIES AUXILIARY ($78,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED S TATES AUXILIARY have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $78,000 in grants to VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED S TATES AUXILIARY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED S TATES AUXILIARY?
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPT OF WI LADIES AUXILIARY is the largest funder on record, with $78,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED S TATES AUXILIARY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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