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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPT OF MISSOURI.

Totals

Total revenue
$139,548
Total expenses
$134,472
Contributions and grants received
$337
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$10,673
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$128,538
Total assets, end of year
$102,545
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$102,545
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$2,854
Management and general expenses
$131,618
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$2,854

Program services were 2.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $337

  • 2a · Program service revenue: CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION

    total $8,273 · related or exempt $8,273

  • 2b · Program service revenue: MEALS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

    total $2,400 · related or exempt $2,400

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 9a · Gaming: gross income

    $154,182

  • 9b · Gaming: direct expenses

    $77,091

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $77,091 · related or exempt $77,091

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $277,707

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $226,674

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $51,033 · related or exempt $51,033

  • 11a · Other revenue: JUKE BOX INCOME

    total $414 · related or exempt $414

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $414

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $2,854 · program services $2,854

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $60,928 · management and general $60,928

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $5,489 · management and general $5,489

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $17,493 · management and general $17,493

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $10,595 · management and general $10,595

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $87 · management and general $87

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $493 · management and general $493

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $692 · management and general $692

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $21,089 · management and general $21,089

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $174 · management and general $174

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $6,559 · management and general $6,559

  • 24a · Other expenses: BUSINESS REGISTRATIONS

    total $1,379 · management and general $1,379

  • 24b · Other expenses: BANK FEES

    total $3,562 · management and general $3,562

  • 24c · Other expenses: VFW SUPPLIES

    total $3,078 · management and general $3,078

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $14,246 · end of year $1,487

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $32,470

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $19,798

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $12,846 · end of year $12,672

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $70,377 · end of year $88,386

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $97,469 · end of year $102,545

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

VETERAN OF FOREIGN WARS POST 9997 MISSION IS TO PROMOTE VETERANS ADVOCACY, HISTORY, EDUCATION AND COMMEMORATION, ENCOURAGING NATIONAL SECURITY THROUGH SUPPORT OF OUR NATIONAL MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM AND TO PROMOTE GOOD CITIZENSHIP AND COMMUNITY SERVICE.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $2,492 · Revenue $2,492

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $362 · Revenue $750

As filed on the 2024 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

  • Barry Brightwell

    COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Bobby L Benedict

    1 YEAR TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Ryan M Martinez

    2 YEAR TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • John Chacon

    3 YEAR TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Roberts A Williams

    JUNIOR VICE COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • James G Kipper

    QUARTERMASTER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Jerry S Grzesiak

    SENIOR VICE COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
8 May 2026
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202601299349300445

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