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VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS

EIN 37-0674775 CARLYLE, IL

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Revenue 2024
$152,113
Expenses 2024
$177,431

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
1250 FRANKLIN ST

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

Mission of Goldsmith-Terry Post No. 3523, Veterans of Foreign Wars consists of veterans advocacy, historical education and commemoration, encouraging national security through support of our nation's men and women in uniform, promoting good citizenship and community service, encouraging America's youth to excel in athletics, community service and academics, facilitating direct assistance to needy military personnel and their families and to veterans and supporting actions and activities that further these missions and promote the social well being of veterans and their families.

  • The post furnishes gas and food for Veterans-in-Distress and their family members on a monthly basis or as needed during the year. Free food is offered on Veteran's Day, Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas to needy Veterans and their families. Additionally, three post members work with Matthew 25 Food Distribution once a week for needy families.

  • Eleven members participate on Color Guard for funerals for veterans, members and non-members as well as for city events. Conduct Memorial Day Services for 175-200 city residents. Ten members, 3 hrs each, put flags on veteran's graves for Memorial Day. Also worked with local Boy Scouts on identifying Veteran's grave sites.

  • The Post Building Hall is used for funeral meals and blood drives. Additionally, the organization sponsors a "Patriotic Pen" essay contest for junior high students and a "Voice of Democracy" contest for high school students. Cub Scouts hold meetings and special activities using Post Building Hall. Bond, Clinton, Marion, Washington counties use hall for Christmas gift give away program and the Head-Start School registration.

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.

  • David Beckmann

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Barrett

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael Voss

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Daniel Wilken

    Jr Vice Comm

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Richard Schulte

    Sr Vice Comm

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Gale Gehrs

    Quartermaster

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Kenneth Goodman

    Commander

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

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
    $152,113
    Expenses
    $177,431
    Contributions
    $4,741
    Grants paid
    $12,855
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $164,522
    Expenses
    $190,650
    Contributions
    $1,796
    Grants paid
    $10,072
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $169,129
    Expenses
    $181,157
    Contributions
    $3,553
    Grants paid
    $21,169

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
    $179,861
    Expenses
    $140,779
    Assets (EOY)
    $292,018
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $130,657
    Expenses
    $113,318
    Assets (EOY)
    $252,936
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $111,540
    Expenses
    $101,152
    Assets (EOY)
    $235,597

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

Where these grants went next →

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.