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VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF KANSAS

EIN 48-0461005 TOPEKA, KS

Largest nonprofits in Kansas

Revenue 2025
$943,914
Expenses 2025
$900,914

Program services were 86.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
19
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 1008

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

The central organization of an IRS group exemption (group number 0927), covering 80 subordinate organizations. 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.

All 80 subordinates →

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

SUPPORT THE STATEWIDE MEMBERSHIP OF THE VETERANS OF FOEIGN WARS AND MANAGE, PROCESS, SUPPORT AND REPRESENT CLAIMS SUBMITTED TO THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

  • ADMINSTERED VETERANS CLAIMS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE KANSAS COMMISSION ON VETERANS AFFAIRS TO COORDINATE VETERANS BENEFIT COUNSELING AND ENSURE THAT EVERY VETERAN IS SERVED AND RECEIVES CLAIMS COUNSELING ASSISTANCE. SUPPORT THE STATEWIDE MEMBERSHIP OF THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS - APPROXIMATELY 15,269 MEMBERS.

    Expenses $775,813

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • Herbert Schwartzkof

    ADJ QUARTERMASTER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related
  • James Boyle

    COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Rick McKenna

    SR VICE COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Richard Wahlmeier

    JR VICE COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Douglas Simms

    JUDGE ADVOCATE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Allen Owens

    SURGEON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • John Linstra

    CHAPLAIN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Eric Hurlock

    CHIEF OF STAFF

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Brandon Kultgen

    INSPECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Charles Cravens

    PAST DEPT COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • French Reid

    1ST DIST COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Andrea Cekovsky

    2ND DIST COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Don Gay

    3RD DIST COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Jon Gran

    4TH DIST COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Robert Goodale

    5TH DIST COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Jerry White

    6TH DIST COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Shannon Moore

    7TH DIST COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    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
    $943,914
    Expenses
    $900,914
    Contributions
    $908,750
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $988,899
    Expenses
    $798,821
    Contributions
    $948,798
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $734,323
    Expenses
    $794,851
    Contributions
    $701,507
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $960,079
    Expenses
    $674,069
    Contributions
    $528,244
    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
    $626,177
    Expenses
    $643,943
    Assets (EOY)
    $609,641
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $624,730
    Expenses
    $621,091
    Assets (EOY)
    $650,247
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $563,654
    Expenses
    $567,800
    Assets (EOY)
    $646,623
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $566,896
    Expenses
    $556,617
    Assets (EOY)
    $650,923
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $568,058
    Expenses
    $583,400
    Assets (EOY)
    $639,786
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $554,034
    Expenses
    $572,662
    Assets (EOY)
    $659,447
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $583,948
    Expenses
    $556,825
    Assets (EOY)
    $676,829
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $695,285
    Expenses
    $578,039
    Assets (EOY)
    $646,516
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $571,407
    Expenses
    $542,508
    Assets (EOY)
    $530,234
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $525,458
    Assets (EOY)
    $501,498

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 2024

Tax period
1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025
Principal officer
David Gunn
Mailing address
PO Box 288Basehor KS 66007

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2022 return

Declared as related by

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

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility EO, GROUP.

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.