Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United S Tates Auxiliary
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 440319970
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8165618655
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,464,794
- Expenses
- $7,000,621
- Assets
- $154,869,489
- Liabilities
- $37,413,359
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
41 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LOIS E CALLAHAN (NATIONAL PRESIDENT)
- DONNA K MILLS (NATIONAL SR VICE PRESIDENT)
- KIM HARNEY (NATIONAL JR VICE PRESIDENT)
- BRENDA BRYANT (PAST PRESIDENT)
- CARLA MARTINEZ (PAST PRESIDENT)
- JANE REAPE (PAST PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ANN PANTELEAKOS (NATIONAL SECRETARY - TREASURER): $105,456 total reported compensation
- CARLA MARTINEZ (PAST PRESIDENT): $37,988 total reported compensation
- BRENDA BRYANT (PAST PRESIDENT): $33,409 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The auxiliary's objectives are fraternal, patriotic, histroical and educational. They include assisting the posts and members of the veterans of foreign wars, maintaining true allegiance to the united states of america and fidelity to its constitution and laws, fostering true patriotism, maintaining and extending the institutions of american freedom and equal rights and justice to all men and women, and preserving and defending the united states of america from all her enemies whomsoever.
What it reported doing in 2024
Other community service activities: auxiliary and vfw members around the country conduct hundreds of joint activities to benefit their communities, like donating items to homeless shelters, conducting food drives, giving gifts to childrens hospitals, aiding victims of abuse, and cleaning up parks, memorials, and highways. Members also participate in the library of congress' veterans history project, make-a-difference day, and many other national volunteer initiatives.
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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 87
- Sustainability: 85
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 98.9%; rating input score 99; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 78%; rating input score 78; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 33.1%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 22.12; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 32 of 41 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $105K · 41 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $621K reported
- Consistency: 13 of 14 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.