Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Tennessee
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581766962
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Oneida, TN, USA
- Phone
- 3303470700
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $36,405
- Expenses
- $30,350
- Assets
- $121,996
- Liabilities
- $2,262
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Brian Wagaman (Commander)
- Barry Goss (Sr Vice Commander)
- Michael Hughett (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide a meeting place for Veterans and their families, aid Venterans in need and their families, promote education and community service.
What it reported doing in 2025
Other Program services such as Memorial Day event, miscellaneous donations, Thanksgiving dinner for Veterans in Need, Boy Scout Order of the Arrow recognition.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 73% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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: 28
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 28.4%; rating input score 28
- Program expense ratio: 27.8%; rating input score 28
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.6%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.02; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 28.4% of revenue deployed · 27.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $8K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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 28/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.