Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Wisconsin
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 390930213
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Watertown, WI, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $21,187
- Expenses
- $14,715
- Assets
- $82,893
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
People named in this filing
- Blake Hidhdudis (Service Officer)
- Gary Winkler (Commander)
- Oliver Cole (Senior 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
To support all veterans and their families in their needs be it rent utilities groceries or whatever is rquired. Take an active part in the community with supporting programs such as yourth baseball and other youth programs. Giving scholarship to two graduation students of the local high school. Donations to VFW home for children Fisher House Wreath Across America and Rainbow Hospic. Other donations are made as requested to any person or organization in need.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our nonprofit offers scholarships to graduating seniors from any of the three high schools in Watertown who are pursuing higher education. These scholarships support students in covering tuition books and other college expenses ensuring that financial limitations do not hinder their academic aspirations. We believe in empowering students from diverse backgrounds to achieve their educational goals and contribute positively to their communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 85% 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
- 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: 82
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.5%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.63; rating input score 85; 85th 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: 59.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.5% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -36.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.