- 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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David Beckmann
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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John Barrett
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Michael Voss
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Daniel Wilken
Jr Vice Comm
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Richard Schulte
Sr Vice Comm
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Gale Gehrs
Quartermaster
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
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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
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2024
- Revenue
- $152,113
- Expenses
- $177,431
- Contributions
- $4,741
- Grants paid
- $12,855
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2023
- Revenue
- $164,522
- Expenses
- $190,650
- Contributions
- $1,796
- Grants paid
- $10,072
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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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $179,861
- Expenses
- $140,779
- Assets (EOY)
- $292,018
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $130,657
- Expenses
- $113,318
- Assets (EOY)
- $252,936
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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
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$6,983
2022 general support
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.