Missouri · Nonprofit
Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States
Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States (Missouri) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $497,123 to it, the largest being Dept of TX VFW Foundation ($229,500). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $103M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $497k
- Net assets
- $146M
What Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States does
Mission
The organization's purpose is to provide fraternal, patriotic, historical, and educational services; to preserve and strengthen comradeship among members; to assist worthy veterans; to perpetuate the memory and history of our dead, and to assist their widows and orphans; to maintain true allegiance to the government of the united states of america, and fidelity to its constitution and laws; to foster true patriotism; to maintain and extend the institutions of american freedom; and to preserve and defend the united states from all of her enemies, whomsoever.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Veterans Service Activities - The VFW Mission includes the mandate to preserve and strengthen comradeship among veterans and to provide assistance to them, their widows and orphans. To meet this obligation, the VFW delivers a broad range of programs and services to veterans through a National organization structure that extends to posts in communities throughout the country. This includes grants of $9,843,491 to support VFW and veteran service activities all over the world. At the state level, the Department service officer plays a key role in assisting veterans in dealing with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and other agencies. These officers are formally trained and accredited to represent both member and non-member veterans and their family members or survivors in applying for and obtaining VA benefits. The VFW National Veterans Service staff provides additional specialized expertise such as representation at the VA Board of Veterans Appeals and at the Pre-Discharge locations on major military installations to assist soon-to-be discharged active-duty military in filing VA disability claims. This structure ensures that no veteran, family member, or survivor needs to…
$27,776,851 spentof which $9,843,491 as grants48% of program spendingFraternal and Member Service Activities - Fraternal activities and member services are vital support components to the VFW National Headquarters as it works to accomplish the VFW mission at state and local levels. This includes grants of $537,800 to support these activities and to provide training on leadership and administration with the information and incentives needed to mobilize volunteer efforts in local communities around the world. These efforts include patriotic activities, community projects, youth activities and support of active-duty military personnel, Guard and Reserves. The VFW National Headquarters also provides dues processing services, fundraising services, and other administrative support to allow the VFW state and local levels to focus their resources on veteran service and community service activities. VFW provides a magazine and emblematic supplies to members and veterans to promote historical education, and commemoration and promotion of patriotic support and activities. The VFW magazine ensures members and the public remain apprised of legislative and administrative issues concerning veterans, health problems confronting veterans, historical and…
$15,328,587 spentof which $537,800 as grants26% of program spendingCommunity Service and Public Awareness - Community service is a major priority of the VFW. This includes grants of $876,975 to support these activities around the world. The VFW's mission includes maintaining true allegiance to the government of the United States of America and fidelity to its Constitution and laws, fostering true patriotism and love of country, and maintaining and extending the institutions of American freedom. To fulfill these objectives, the VFW has a comprehensive set of educational and informational programs, materials, and activities that reach out to every American virtually every day of the year. The major elements of VFW Community Service include community activities, citizenship education, safety programs, and youth activities. Community activities include assistance in conducting blood drives, recycling programs, and neighborhood and highway beautification projects; aid to senior citizens, volunteering in hospitals and nursing homes, and assisting families in times of personal tragedy or illness; and assistance to churches and schools through volunteering and speaker programs. Citizenship education, materials, and activities are geared to remind,…
$14,948,141 spentof which $876,975 as grants26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $58,053,579.
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 2021 to 2022, from $311M to $242M (−22%).
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 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Ryan Gallucci
Exec Director, Washington off.
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 17 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $20k → $75k.
1 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $26M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States raised.
From the IRS filings of Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 of The United States.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 83% · 2019 58% · 2020 85% · 2021 74% · 2022 43% · 2023 37% — 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.
How long its funders stay
23% of Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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 of The United States
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 22 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States: 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 of The United States?
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States (Missouri) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $497,123 to it, the largest being Dept of TX VFW Foundation ($229,500). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $497,123 in grants to Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States?
- Dept of TX VFW Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $229,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States 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 50 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