Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation

Veterans Service Activities - The mission is to secure, manage and distribute resources to support veterans, active-duty personnel, the National Guard and reserve, their families, and communities. The VFW Foundation, in support of this mission, assisted over 40 military families in need of financial assistance with disbursements of $70,178 through the Un-Met Needs program to help families experiencing financial hardships with mortgage, car loans, utilities and other payments. The VFW Foundation provided grants of $55,371 that were used for recognition events for military members and their families and other programs to assist veterans. The VFW Foundation provided a $14,000 grant to assist with Valor Medals Review to help identify veterans that served in World War I that may have been denied the Medal of Honor because of race. The VFW Foundation expended $1,500,000 to provide scholarships for the VFW's Help-A-Hero Scholarship program. This program provides up to $5,000 in scholarships to veterans or current military personnel with a rank of E-5 or below. Additionally, the VFW Foundation expended $500,000 to support VFW Service Officers. These officers play a key role in assisting veterans in dealing with the Department of Veterans Affairs and other agencies. These officers are formally trained and accredited to represent veterans and their dependents or survivors. This structure ensures that no veteran, dependent or survivor needs to deal with the agencies administering veteran's programs without expert representation. During 2024, nearly 593,000 veterans represented by VFW Service Officers received over $14.6 billion in benefits from the Department of Veterans Administration.

Community Service & Public Awareness - The mission supports programs that foster patriotism, citizenship education and volunteerism, community improvement and youth development programs. The VFW Foundation made grants of $650,000 to assist VFW Posts and Auxiliaries with outreach projects in their respective communities, so that VFW Posts could continue to be a resource for their local communities.