Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Illinois

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
362813345
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Waukegan, IL, USA
Phone
8473364930
Rating
44
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$125,326
Expenses
$124,335
Assets
$7,489
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • FREDIA M WASHINGTON (PRESIDENT/ADMINISTRATOR)

People named in this filing

  • CALVIN FARMER (COMMANDER)
  • JESSE WOODLEY (QUARTERMASTER)
  • BILLY NORWOOD (JR VICE COMMANDER)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Scholarships, for Voice of Democracy AND PATRIOT PEN Every three months for the Veterans and Seniors in the community WE CONDUCT FUND RAISER FOR THE back to school backpack and school supplies VFW POST Also we open our door to patrons, who continued on SCHEDULE O STATEMENT 3 HOPING TO resume back in 2024

What it reported doing in 2024

HELPING IN THE COMMUNITY at the HOMELESS SHELTER FOR ALL Veterans and family in needs, with clothes and food during the holiday

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 96% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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. 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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.8%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -18.1% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -7.3% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.