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VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPT OF MINNESOTA

EIN 41-0686996 DETROIT LAKES, MN

Largest nonprofits in Minnesota

Revenue 2024
$437,736
Expenses 2024
$352,758

Program services were 0.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
19
Classification
1000
Street
500 WASHINGTON AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Group exemption

A subordinate covered by the group exemption of VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPT OF MINNESOTA (EIN 41-0593068). matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE PURPOSE OF THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES IS TO PRESERVE AND SUPPORT THE PATRIOTIC AND HISTORICAL INTEREST OF OUR COUNTRY, OUR COMMUNITIES AND OUR VETERANS; TO STRENGTHEN THE COMMON BONDS OF THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE SERVED AND ARE CURRENTLY SERVING IN THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES.

  • MEMBERS ARE PROVIDED WITH COMPANIONSHIP AND MUTUAL SUPPORT IN ADDITION TO BENEFITS SUCH AS INSURANCE PROGRAMS, END OF LIFE SERVICES AND DISCOUNTS ON MEDICAL SERVICES. AS OF JUNE 30, 2025 THERE WERE 205 MEMBERS. THE VFW ALSO OPERATES A LAWFUL GAMBLING FUND FROM WHICH DONATIONS ARE MADE TO VARIOUS CHARITABLE CAUSES, INCLUDING DONATIONS TO ORGANIZATIONS BENEFITING YOUTH AND VETERANS.

  • MEMBERS ARE PROVIDED WITH COMPANIONSHIP AND MUTUAL SUPPORT IN ADDITION TO BENEFITS SUCH AS INSURANCE PROGRAMS, END OF LIFE SERVICES AND DISCOUNTS ON MEDICAL SERVICES. AS OF JUNE 30, 2025 THERE WERE 205 MEMBERS. THE VFW ALSO OPERATES A LAWFUL GAMBLING FUND FROM WHICH DONATIONS ARE MADE TO VARIOUS CHARITABLE CAUSES, INCLUDING DONATIONS TO ORGANIZATIONS BENEFITING YOUTH AND VETERANS.

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Trina Doty

    COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Dan Thorson

    SENIOR VICE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • John Sauer

    JUNIOR VICE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Nick Elijah

    QUARTERMASTE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Gary Reghborg

    CHAPLIN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jason Bristlin

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Duke Dunham

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Doug Newman

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Angela Johnson

    HISTORIAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Banjo Doty

    JUDGE ADVOCA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $437,736
    Expenses
    $352,758
    Contributions
    $1,458
    Grants paid
    $980
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $472,433
    Expenses
    $318,475
    Contributions
    $2,801
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $285,326
    Expenses
    $250,862
    Contributions
    $287
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $155,964
    Expenses
    $199,993
    Assets (EOY)
    $222,534
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $222,383
    Expenses
    $87,268
    Assets (EOY)
    $262,932
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $78,616
    Expenses
    $75,555
    Assets (EOY)
    $124,689
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $140,396
    Expenses
    $89,193
    Assets (EOY)
    $120,380
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $98,425
    Expenses
    $88,747
    Assets (EOY)
    $72,307
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $92,086
    Expenses
    $85,362
    Assets (EOY)
    $73,383
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $117,727
    Expenses
    $97,486
    Assets (EOY)
    $94,509
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $100,122
    Expenses
    $87,401
    Assets (EOY)
    $78,666
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $116,711
    Expenses
    $80,438
    Assets (EOY)
    $70,829
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $65,769
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,053

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.