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VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPT OF MISSOURI

EIN 43-1047974 INDEPENDENCE, MO

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Revenue 2025
$146,628
Expenses 2025
$117,919

Program services were 3.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
19
Classification
1000
Street
12810 E KENTUCKY 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 DEPT OF MISSOURI (EIN 44-0515305). 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

VETERAN OF FOREIGN WARS POST 3976 MISSION IS TO PROMOTE VETERANS ADVOCACY, HISTORY, EDUCATION AND COMMEMORATION, ENCOURAGING NATIONAL SECURITY THROUGH SUPPORT OF OUR NATIONS MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM BY PROMOTING GOOD CITIZENSHIP AND COMMUNITY SERVICE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROMOTE VETERANS ADVOCACY, HISTORY, EDUCATION AND COMMEMORATION, ENCOURAGING NATIONAL SECURITY THROUGH SUPPORT OF OUR NATIONS MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM AND BY PROMOTING GOOD CITIZENSHIP AND COMMUNITY SERVICE.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $2,391

  • MEMBER FUNDRAISING MEALS PROVIDING OPERATING REVENUE AND HELPED TO ACHEIVE HELPING OF VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES IN NEED. HELPED A VETERAN'S FAMILY WITH FUNERAL COSTS.

    Expenses $1,617 · Revenue $3,127

As filed on the 2025 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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.

  • Leon Kelsey

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Andy Jasso

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Warren Atchinson

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    30
  • Jerry Zevecke

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Tom Finell

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Jason Campell

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Jim Cooper

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Jed Cope

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Nancy Griego

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Steve Herrman

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

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
    $146,628
    Expenses
    $117,919
    Contributions
    $15
    Grants paid
    $3,517
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $132,601
    Expenses
    $136,533
    Contributions
    $3,010
    Grants paid
    $2,447
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $109,967
    Expenses
    $91,206
    Contributions
    $904
    Grants paid
    $400
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $109,178
    Expenses
    $55,774
    Contributions
    $1,214
    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
    $67,659
    Expenses
    $65,726
    Assets (EOY)
    $369,651
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $95,918
    Expenses
    $72,294
    Assets (EOY)
    $375,218
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $98,298
    Expenses
    $77,640
    Assets (EOY)
    $358,753
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $86,651
    Expenses
    $86,062
    Assets (EOY)
    $358,581
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $135,460
    Expenses
    $100,162
    Assets (EOY)
    $479,791
  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $72,935
    Assets (EOY)
    $501,952

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.