Missouri · Nonprofit
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 3838
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 3838 (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being LIDS FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $366k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3838 does
Mission
A veterans service organization. Vfw post 3838 promotes comradeship among, and provides services to its members, who are all veterans of foreign wars. The organization also provides service to non-member needy veterans, families of veterans, and to others in the community who need assistance. Vfw post 3838 donates labor, food, medical supplies and equipment, transportation, and money to those in need both veteran and non-veteran.the organization promotes americanism and patriotism, giving educational programs in schools and youth groups. It provides american flags to schools, youth groups, community organizations, and private citizens who do not have the funds to purchase their own. Vfw post 3838 sponsors a scout troop, conducts community wide safety programs, drug and alcohol abuse prevention programs, safe driving programs, hunter safety programs, and many other community service events. It provides assistance and funding to the local mo veterans home and to an area va hospital and l
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
A veterans service organization. Vfw post 3838 promotes comradeship among, and provides services to its members, who are all veterans of foreign wars. The organization also provides service to non-member needy veterans, families of veterans, and to others in the community who need assistance. Vfw post 3838 donates labor, food, medical supplies and equipment, transportation, and money to those in need both veteran and non-veteran.the organization promotes americanism and patriotism, giving educational programs in schools and youth groups. It provides american flags to schools, youth groups, community organizations, and private citizens who do not have the funds to purchase their own. Vfw post 3838 sponsors a scout troop, conducts community wide safety programs, drug and alcohol abuse prevention programs, safe driving programs, hunter safety programs, and many other community service events. It provides assistance and funding to the local mo veterans home and to an area va hospital and local va clinic. It sponsors and provides facilities for the red cross and va hospital blood drives. The post property is used for member services and for providing entertainment, such as fishing and…
$406,343 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $406,343.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.4M to $1.3M (−9%).
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: 2021 11% · 2022 10%. 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 8 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 3838’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 POST 3838 draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 1 state in all.
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 POST 3838
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 3838: 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 3838?
- VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 3838 (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being LIDS FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 3838 have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 3838.
- Who is the largest funder of VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 3838?
- LIDS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 3838 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.
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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