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VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS

EIN 36-1911490 SPRINGFIELD, IL

Revenue 2024
$1,645,803
Expenses 2024
$1,304,769

As filed

Subsection
19
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 13206

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

The central organization of an IRS group exemption (group number 1661), covering 232 subordinate organizations. 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.

All 232 subordinates →

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.

  • EUGENE BLACKWELL

    STATE COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • ROB BAILEY

    STATE SENIOR VICE COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • RYAN HIGGINBOTHAM

    STATE JUNIOR VICE COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • JOSEPH SCOTT SWINFORD

    STATE ADJUTANT-QUARTERMASTER

    Total calculated
    $57,327
    From this org
    $57,327
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • BOBBY WELCH

    STATE CHIEF OF STAFF

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • JAY HOFFMAN

    STATE JUDGE ADVOCATE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • DOUG JAMESON

    STATE SURGEON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • GARY HOLMES

    STATE CHAPLAIN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • CATHY STUBBS

    STATE INSPECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • ZHI CHEN

    DISTRICT 3 COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • EVAMARIE DUFF

    DISTRICT 4 COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • MATHIUS CARTER

    DISTRICT 5 COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • ROB BLAND

    DISTRICT 6 COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • DAVID LONG

    DISTRICT 7 COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • KENNETH MOREY

    DISTRICT 8 COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • JOHN FINNEGAN

    DISTRICT 9 COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • JOSH SEED

    DISTRICT 10 COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • RICK HOBBS

    DISTRICT 11 COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • TONY AVERS

    DISTRICT 12 COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • BOB SHEHORN

    DISTRICT 13 COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • AMIEE LOUER-WAGONER

    DISTRICT 14 COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • CLARENCE CARAKER

    DISTRICT 15 COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • WILLIAM BROWNE

    DISTRICT 16 COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • JAMES THORNE

    DISTRICT 17 COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • PAUL CRAVENS

    DISTRICT 18 COMMANDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

The first 25 listed. 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 — 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
    $1,645,803
    Expenses
    $1,304,769
    Contributions
    $1,475,702
    Grants paid
    $41,079
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,164,947
    Expenses
    $1,358,372
    Contributions
    $1,009,394
    Grants paid
    $32,124
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,265,799
    Expenses
    $1,095,157
    Contributions
    $1,043,227
    Grants paid
    $81,343

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.

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

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

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility EO, GROUP.

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.