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VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS

EIN 36-6145185 CALUMET CITY, IL

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Revenue 2024
$161,673
Expenses 2024
$104,726

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
664 HIRSCH 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 PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF VETERANS: ANY REVENUE GENERATED IN EXCESS OF EXPENSES IS SAVED FOR PROGRAMS WE RUN FOR OUR VFW AND REMAINS IN THE BANK TO PAY FOR BUILDING MAINTENANCE (LARGE COMMERIAL BUILDING WITH VARIOUS EXPENSES).

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF VETERANS

  • ACTIVITIES PROMOTING THE WELFARE OF VETERANS: With funds received from Bar and Gaming Commissions, Ehinger Brothers VFW 8141 provides an 3 annual picnics during the year (Member's Family Picnic, Veteran's & Memorial Day celebrations).

    Expenses $6,253 · Revenue $1,200

  • WEEKLY GAMING NIGHT - Every Thursday night at the Ehinger Brothers VFW 8141, we provide a safe haven for members and their families to attend a paid game night. We host this game night and pay a Tringo Gaming facilitator $200 per week to facilitate Bingo and Trivia games for our member (Along with Prizes). These game nights are funded by money received from Bar Activities & Gaming Commissions.

    Expenses $11,700

  • WEEKLY JAM NIGHT - Every Monday night at the Ehinger Brothers VFW 8141, we provide a safe haven for members and their families to attend an open mic, karaoke, and live band performances. These jam nights are funded by money received from Bar Activities & Gaming Commissions.

    Expenses $19,100

  • AMERICANISM AWARD NIGHT - A VFW initiative dedicated patriotism in celebration of American Patriotic Days. Gifts and awards are granted to students and first responders. Events brings attention to Prisoners of War and those Missing in Action by hosting POW/MIA ceremonies to both educate the public and honor these special veterans.

    Expenses $6,500

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Thomas Majzinski

    CHAPLAIN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 10 related
  • Gregory Szafranski

    JR VICE COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 10 related
  • Leonard Kulasa

    SR VICE COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 10 related
  • Jon Peulecke

    QUARTERMASTER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related
  • John Aylmer

    COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 10 related
  • Dennis Wilhelm

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    12 + 12 related

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
    $161,673
    Expenses
    $104,726
    Contributions
    $32,402
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $179,818
    Expenses
    $176,066
    Contributions
    $29,710
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $211,303
    Expenses
    $179,562
    Contributions
    $22,334
    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
    $197,573
    Expenses
    $152,853
    Assets (EOY)
    $98,378
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $68,814
    Expenses
    $58,461
    Assets (EOY)
    $62,212

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.