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VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC

EIN 93-1112649 TORRANCE, CA

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Revenue 2025
$25,696
Expenses 2025
$23,510

Program services were 92.9% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
19
Classification
1000
Street
4733 TORRANCE BOULEVARD 553

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 VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC (EIN 13-2929110). 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

Primary exempt purpose

Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) is the only national Vietnam veterans organization congressionally chartered and exclusively dedicated to Vietnam-era veterans and their families.By the late 1970s, it was clear the established veterans groups had failed to make a priority of the issues of concern to Vietnam veterans. As a result, a vacuum existed within the nations legislative and public agenda. In January 1978, a small group of Vietnam veteran activists came to Washington, D.C., searching for allies to support the creation of an advocacy organization devoted exclusively to the needs of Vietnam veterans. VVA, initially known as the Council of Vietnam Veterans, began its work.

  • Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) is the only national Vietnam veterans organization congressionally chartered and exclusively dedicated to Vietnam-era veterans and their families.

    Expenses $21,830

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.

  • Steve Crecy

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    5
  • Kirk Gillett

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    5
  • Dennis Wild

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    5
  • Thomas Kaehler

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $25,696
    Expenses
    $23,510
    Contributions
    $1,236
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $34,096
    Expenses
    $30,638
    Contributions
    $14,860
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $27,335
    Expenses
    $34,137
    Contributions
    $3,875
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $21,536
    Expenses
    $29,380
    Contributions
    $7,160
    Grants paid
    not reported

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $30,374
    Expenses
    $22,990
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,192
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $18,624
    Expenses
    $19,603
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,808
  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $25,283
    Expenses
    $23,385
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,787
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $31,095
    Expenses
    $36,965
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,889
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $12,065
    Expenses
    $8,807
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,759

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2015

Tax period
1 March 2015 to 29 February 2016
Principal officer
Jerry Yamamoto
Mailing address
4733 Torrance Boulevard 553Torrance CA 90503
Website
Something was entered that is not a web address, so it is not shown.

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

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.