Veterans of Foreign Wars of the US Dept of Florida Auxiliary
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237326563
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Saint Petersburg, FL, USA
- Phone
- 7274175450
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Military, Veterans' Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $830,723
- Expenses
- $827,559
- Assets
- $787,908
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
32 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Colleen McQuaid (District President)
- Paul Ohanesian (District President)
- Stephen Gouthro (District President)
- Patricia Mull (District President)
- Sherri Golder (District President)
- Lanaie Reed (District President)
Highest reported compensation
- Deborah Tilley (Secretary): $22,452 total reported compensation
- Cindy Estell (Treasurer): $22,452 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To assist the Posts and members thereof of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, and its own members whenever possible.
What it reported doing in 2025
The mission of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the US Auxiliary is to serve and assist the veterans of this country and our communities with a common purpose: to improve the lives of veterans, service members, their families, our communities, and when possible its own members. During this year, our auxiliaries raised funds for organizations that support our veterans and our community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 62% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 63% for direct work, and 37% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.5%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 86%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 93%; rating input score 93; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 93.5%; rating input score 94; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.4%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.5% of revenue deployed · 86% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 29 of 31 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $22K · 32 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.