Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of California Post 3982

Nonprofit profile at a glance

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

8 people listed

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Contributions to charitable, educational, and veterans groups

Revenue model: Investment-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
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 available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Consistency checks: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Pay-setting controls: Limited
Foreign activity oversight: Limited
Grant itemization coverage: Limited
Major donor itemization: Limited
Related-party transparency: Limited

Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Operating margin: 23.7%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 31.38; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 15%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Program expense growth: Limited
Revenue growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
Leadership: top reported pay $11K · 8 people listed
Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
Schedules: 4 filed schedules
Filing history: 4 filing years from 2010 to 2024
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
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.

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.