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VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPT OF MISSOURI

EIN 43-6097784 INDEPENDENCE, MO

Largest nonprofits in Missouri

Revenue 2024
$139,548
Expenses 2024
$134,472

Program services were 2.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
19
Classification
1000
Street
2601 S HUB DR STE D

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 · 2024

Mission

VETERAN OF FOREIGN WARS POST 9997 MISSION IS TO PROMOTE VETERANS ADVOCACY, HISTORY, EDUCATION AND COMMEMORATION, ENCOURAGING NATIONAL SECURITY THROUGH SUPPORT OF OUR NATIONAL MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM AND TO PROMOTE GOOD CITIZENSHIP AND COMMUNITY SERVICE.

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

    Expenses $2,492 · Revenue $2,492

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

    Expenses $362 · Revenue $750

As filed on the 2024 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 · 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.

  • Barry Brightwell

    COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Bobby L Benedict

    1 YEAR TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Ryan M Martinez

    2 YEAR TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • John Chacon

    3 YEAR TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Roberts A Williams

    JUNIOR VICE COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • James G Kipper

    QUARTERMASTER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Jerry S Grzesiak

    SENIOR VICE COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $139,548
    Expenses
    $134,472
    Contributions
    $337
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $180,347
    Expenses
    $166,101
    Contributions
    $11,914
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $123,324
    Expenses
    $117,365
    Contributions
    $160
    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
    $89,448
    Expenses
    $63,634
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,855
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $60,822
    Expenses
    $88,132
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,792
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $93,150
    Expenses
    $50,667
    Assets (EOY)
    $68,534
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $98,587
    Expenses
    $94,572
    Assets (EOY)
    $59,071
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $78,666
    Expenses
    $74,599
    Assets (EOY)
    $71,183
  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $69,173
    Expenses
    $78,619
    Assets (EOY)
    $69,463
  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $63,390
    Expenses
    $74,611
    Assets (EOY)
    $75,873
  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $85,387
    Expenses
    $65,980
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,873

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 2010

Tax period
1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011
Principal officer
Penny Griswold
Mailing address
6801 WILSON ROADKANSAS CITY MO 64125

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

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.