VFW Post 3937
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237101754
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Long Beach, MS, USA
- Phone
- 2285961745
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,009
- Expenses
- $97,347
- Assets
- $418,543
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Russ Destefano (President)
- Gravis A Suber (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Keith Hieser (Treasurer)
- Russ Destefano (President)
- Gravis A Suber (Vice President)
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 preserve & Strengthen comradeship among its members, to assist worthy comrades, to perpetuate the memory and the history of our dead, and to assist their widows and orphans to maintain true allegiance to the government of the United States and fidelity to its constitution and laws, to foster patriotism, to maintain and extend the institutions of American Freedom, and to preserve and Defend the United States from all enemies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 84% 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 revenue 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: 29
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.5%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 16.9%; rating input score 17
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -94.7%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.3; rating input score 81; 81st 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: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.5% of revenue deployed · 16.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $16K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2013 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.