Queen City VFW 5860
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460319491
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Spearfish, SD, USA
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Military, Veterans' Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $63,526
- Expenses
- $66,706
- Assets
- $422,639
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- Derek Besler (VFW Post 5860 Commander)
- Timothy Wetz (VFW Post 5860 Sr Vice)
- Sherry Lynn Burr (VFW Post 5860 Quartermaster)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Helping Veterans and their families.
What it reported doing in 2025
As a VFW we help local Veterans who need help. We have helped 8 Veterans with financial help to pay bills gas for travel for cancer treatments gas to get to family or a treatment facility a bus ticket home and a membership to the rec center. We also donate medical equipment and time when needed.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 11
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 11.4%; rating input score 11
- Program expense ratio: 10.9%; rating input score 11
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.34; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 11.4% of revenue deployed · 10.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $7K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 11/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.