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Disaster Relief Fund (VFW Foundation)
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Who can apply: Veterans and military families needing disaster-related support after a natural disaster.
About Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation
To serve and support America’s veterans, service members, and their families by securing resources for programs that facilitate enhanced life outcomes—now and for generations to come.
Focus Areas
veterans servicesVA claims assistancefinancial assistance for active duty/service membersdisaster reliefscholarships and educationcommunity support through VFW Posts
Who They Fund
veteransmilitary familieslocal communities
Funding Style
direct servicecommunity-based programsprogrammatic support
About Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation
Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation’s largest recent grants go to Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States for veteran service and community service activities, including a $3,231,160 award in 2024 and two large awards in 2023. That pattern shows a funder built around the VFW network itself, with resources flowing to posts and related entities that support veterans, service members, and their families. The foundation also funds smaller awards for education and local service, including repeated grants to Park University for veterans service activities. Its published summary centers on securing resources for programs that improve life outcomes for America’s veterans, service members, and their families. The active grant programs reinforce that mission: support for VFW Posts, emergency financial assistance for service members facing hardship, scholarships for veterans and service members, and funded claims assistance through the National Veterans Service network. The foundation’s grantmaking is programmatic and direct-service oriented, with local community support tied to VFW Posts and auxiliaries. As a public charity, it gives entirely within the United States and concentrates its giving in Missouri.
What Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation Funds
The foundation’s cause areas cluster around veteran support, emergency aid, and community service. In veteran service work, it gave $14,000 to Park University in 2024 for veterans service activities, adding to repeated support for the school in prior years. Emergency financial assistance is another defined program area. The Financial Assistance for Service Members (Unmet Needs) program provides grants, not loans, to active-duty service members, including activated Guard and Reserve, and their families when they face deployment-related hardship, military pay errors, or medical discharge. The foundation also supports local food access and community relief. Its Uniting for Veterans Grant offers matching support of up to $1,500 to VFW Posts or Auxiliaries for food and monetary donations to food banks, pantries, and homeless shelters. Disaster response appears as well through the Disaster Relief Fund, which supports VFW Posts’ rapid assistance after hurricanes, wildfires, and tornadoes.
How Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation Gives
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$5.6M
Total Assets
$23.6M
Total Revenue
$6.2M
Total Expenses
$7M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $14K and $2.7M, with a median of $1.3M.
25th Percentile
$14K
Median
$1.3M
75th Percentile
$2.7M
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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