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VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF CONNECTICUT

VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF CONNECTICUT (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $558,107 to it, the largest being Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States ($558,107). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$428k
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$558k
Grants received
$2.1M
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($476k) Expenses 100 ($445k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 89 ($423k) Expenses 106 ($474k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 95 ($452k) Expenses 103 ($461k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 77 ($365k) Expenses 89 ($399k) Net assets 97 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 146 ($696k) Expenses 88 ($391k) Net assets 134 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 93 ($445k) Expenses 91 ($404k) Net assets 130 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 80 ($380k) Expenses 86 ($382k) Net assets 136 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 110 ($525k) Expenses 99 ($442k) Net assets 152 ($2.0M)2025 Revenue 90 ($428k) Expenses 102 ($455k) Net assets 157 ($2.1M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (90)Expenses (102)Net assets (157)

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

Government-grant reliance: 2021 4% · 2022 17% · 2024 1%. 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.

$31k
’17
−$51k
’18
−$9k
’19
−$33k
’20
$306k
’21
$41k
’22
−$2k
’23
$83k
’24
−$27k
’25
25
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $107k → $109k.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF CONNECTICUT’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 STATES DEPT OF CONNECTICUT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 1 state in all.

MO

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

’21
’22
’23
Connecticut 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF CONNECTICUT

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Connecticut

Disabled American Veterans 580%Afghanistan Iraq Veterans War Memorial Fund Inc78%Disabled American Vets Dept of Ct77%Veteran Feminists of America77%The American Legion Post 1277%Connecticut Amvets Service Foundation Inc77%Huntington VFW Post 1046677%Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #167277%

Nationally

Veterans of Foreign Wars 1599 VFW - Penn90%Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United State Dept89%Veterans of Foreign Wars of the 1432 Lt Col John D Riddell88%Veterans of Foreign Wars of the US88%Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Department of Ohio88%Veterans of Foreign Wars Benson Post 250388%Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Nc88%Veterans of Foreign Wars87%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 9%Fundraising 19%

Governance

17
board members
94%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF CONNECTICUT: 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 DEPT OF CONNECTICUT?
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF CONNECTICUT (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $558,107 to it, the largest being Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States ($558,107). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF CONNECTICUT have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $558,107 in grants to VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF CONNECTICUT, 1 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 CONNECTICUT?
Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States is the largest funder on record, with $558,107 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF CONNECTICUT find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing