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VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 1720

VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 1720 (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being ARROWHEAD REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$150k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$1.2M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1720 does

Mission

Promote social welfare of our veterans, meet their needs, provide a safe environment for them to socialize and discuss and to help educate them on veteran issues.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Promote our member veterans and meet their needs. We provide a safe environment for them to socialize and discuss. We help educate them on veterans issues.

    $164,839 spent
    93% of program spending
  2. We provide scholarships to graduating high school students who are continuing their education.

    $12,000 spent
    7% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $176,839.

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 ($142k) Expenses 100 ($136k) Net assets 100 ($138k)2018 Revenue 96 ($137k) Expenses 109 ($148k) Net assets 92 ($127k)2019 Revenue 108 ($154k) Expenses 107 ($146k) Net assets 97 ($135k)2020 Revenue 825 ($1.2M) Expenses 73 ($100k) Net assets 872 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 180 ($256k) Expenses 100 ($136k) Net assets 959 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 214 ($304k) Expenses 254 ($345k) Net assets 917 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 148 ($211k) Expenses 170 ($231k) Net assets 903 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 123 ($175k) Expenses 124 ($169k) Net assets 921 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 105 ($150k) Expenses 131 ($178k) Net assets 900 ($1.2M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (105)Expenses (131)Net assets (900)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $136k to $1.2M (+791%).

$139k
$127k
$136k
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.2M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’17
−$11k
’18
$8k
’19
$1.1M
’20
$120k
’21
−$41k
’22
−$20k
’23
$6k
’24
−$29k
’25
34
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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Listed65554910109
Joined·+2+0+0+3+6+2+0+4
No longer listed·30041105
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'19
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 1720’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

100% of VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 1720's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

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

Organizations like VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 1720

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 1720: 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 POST 1720?
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 1720 (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being ARROWHEAD REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 1720 have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 1720.
Who is the largest funder of VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 1720?
ARROWHEAD REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 1720 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 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