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VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS

EIN 36-6145300 BELVIDERE, IL

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Revenue 2024
$275,000
Expenses 2024
$262,959

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
1310 W LINCOLN 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 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 · 2024

Mission

TO PROVIDE PATRIOTIC, SOCIAL AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR MEMBERS AND THEIR FAMILIES AS WELL AS PARTICIPATING IN COMMUNITY AFFAIRS. TO FOSTER CAMARADERIE AMONG UNITED STATES VETERANS OF OVERSEAS CONFLICTS. TO SERVE OUR VETERANS, THE MILITARY, AND OUR COMMUNITIES. TO ADVOCATE ON BEHALF OF ALL VETERANS. TO ENSURE THAT VETERANS ARE RESPECTED FOR THEIR SERVICE, ALWAYS RECEIVE THEIR EARNED ENTITLEMENTS, AND ARE RECOGNIZED FOR THE SACRIFICES THEY AND THEIR LOVED ONES HAVE MADE ON BEHALF OF THIS GREAT COUNTRY.

  • TO PROVIDE PATRIOTIC, SOCIAL AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR MEMBERS AND THEIR FAMILIES AS WELL AS PARTICIPATING IN COMMUNITY AFFAIRS. TO FOSTER CAMARADERIE AMONG UNITED STATES VETERANS OF OVERSEAS CONFLICTS. TO SERVE OUR VETERANS, THE MILITARY, AND OUR COMMUNITIES. TO ADVOCATE ON BEHALF OF ALL VETERANS. TO ENSURE THAT VETERANS ARE RESPECTED FOR THEIR SERVICE, ALWAYS RECEIVE THEIR EARNED ENTITLEMENTS, AND ARE RECOGNIZED FOR THE SACRIFICES THEY AND THEIR LOVED ONES HAVE MADE ON BEHALF OF THIS GREAT COUNTRY.

  • TO PROVIDE PATRIOTIC, SOCIAL AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR MEMBERS AND THEIR FAMILIES AS WELL AS PARTICIPATING IN COMMUNITY AFFAIRS. TO FOSTER CAMARADERIE AMONG UNITED STATES VETERANS OF OVERSEAS CONFLICTS. TO SERVE OUR VETERANS, THE MILITARY, AND OUR COMMUNITIES. TO ADVOCATE ON BEHALF OF ALL VETERANS. TO ENSURE THAT VETERANS ARE RESPECTED FOR THEIR SERVICE, ALWAYS RECEIVE THEIR EARNED ENTITLEMENTS, AND ARE RECOGNIZED FOR THE SACRIFICES THEY AND THEIR LOVED ONES HAVE MADE ON BEHALF OF THIS GREAT COUNTRY.

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.

  • Bernadette Bland

    COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Rob Bland

    SECRETARY/TR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Gregory Kelm

    VICE PRESIDE

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $275,000
    Expenses
    $262,959
    Contributions
    $33,981
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $230,513
    Expenses
    $259,005
    Contributions
    $10,356
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $254,453
    Expenses
    $260,019
    Contributions
    $58,325
    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
    $228,274
    Expenses
    $228,905
    Assets (EOY)
    $79,290
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $173,984
    Expenses
    $182,981
    Assets (EOY)
    $79,921
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $196,760
    Expenses
    $217,308
    Assets (EOY)
    $88,918
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $299,703
    Expenses
    $294,327
    Assets (EOY)
    $109,466
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $359,235
    Expenses
    $332,933
    Assets (EOY)
    $104,090
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $355,137
    Expenses
    $350,748
    Assets (EOY)
    $77,788
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $388,414
    Expenses
    $392,040
    Assets (EOY)
    $73,399
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $398,803
    Expenses
    $400,713
    Assets (EOY)
    $77,025
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $470,002
    Expenses
    $433,875
    Assets (EOY)
    $78,935
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $323,398
    Assets (EOY)
    $42,808

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2011

Tax period
1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012
Principal officer
Gregory Kelm
Mailing address
1310 West Lincoln AvenueBelvidere IL 61008
Website
vfw1461.com
Doing business as
John Hugo Kaiser VFW Post 1461

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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.