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VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS

EIN 37-0717622 BELLEVILLE, IL

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Revenue 2025
$388,949
Expenses 2025
$367,541

Program services were 61.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
19
Classification
1000
Street
1516 OLD HWY 158

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 DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS (EIN 36-1911490). 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 · 2025

Mission

TO PRESERVE AND STRENGTHEN CAMARADERIE AMONG VFW MEMBERS; TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY AND HISTROY OF YOUR DEAD, AND TO ASSIST THEIR WIDOWS, WIDOWERS AND ORPHANS; TO MAINTAIN TRUE ALLEGIANCE TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND FIDELITY TO ITS CONSTITUTION AND LAWS; TO FOSTER TRUE PATRIOTISM TO MAINTAIN AND EXTEND THE INSTITUTIONS OF AMERICAN FREEDOM; AND TO PRESERVE AND DEFEND THE UNITED STATES FROM ALL HER ENEMIES, WHOMEVER AND WHEREVER THEY MAY BE.

  • PROCEEDS FROM BAR OPERATIONS GO DIRECTLY TO BENEFIT THE MEMBERS OF THE POST, VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS, OR THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY.

  • PROCEEDS FROM MEAT SHOOTS GO DIRECTLY TO BENEFIT THE MEMBERS OF THE POST, VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS, OR THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY.

  • PROCEEDS FROM FISH FRY GO DIRECTLY TO BENEFIT THE MEMBERS OF THE POST, VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS, OR THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY.

  • PROCEEDS FROM BAR OPERATIONS GO DIRECTLY TO BENEFIT THE MEMBERS OF THE POST, VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS, OR THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY.

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Maurice F Bridges

    QUARTERMASTE

    Total calculated
    $0
  • John W Butler

    1 YEAR TRUST

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Brita M Dorsey

    COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Lisa M Hill

    ADJUTANT

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Natisha L Joseph

    3 YEAR TRUST

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Joan M Luna

    CHAPLAIN

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Joan M Luna

    2 YEAR TRUST

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Donald E Pierre

    BENEFITS ADV

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Reginald L Stevenson

    JR VICE COMM

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Tish M Wilson

    SR VICE COMM

    Total calculated
    $0

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $388,949
    Expenses
    $367,541
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $366,444
    Expenses
    $382,657
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $407,575
    Expenses
    $388,345
    Contributions
    $4,373
    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
    $302,069
    Expenses
    $266,603
    Assets (EOY)
    $272,875
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $166,104
    Expenses
    $181,537
    Assets (EOY)
    $237,169
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $219,808
    Expenses
    $217,123
    Assets (EOY)
    $251,635
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $214,102
    Expenses
    $189,758
    Assets (EOY)
    $249,800
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $209,339
    Expenses
    $191,439
    Assets (EOY)
    $225,267
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $238,414
    Expenses
    $194,389
    Assets (EOY)
    $207,404
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $229,834
    Expenses
    $173,969
    Assets (EOY)
    $163,340

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.

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.