DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS AG TRICENTENNIAL CHAPTER 84
EIN 31-0922721 · Military & Veterans Organizations (W30)
What they do
EMPOWERING VETERANS to LEAD HIGH-QUALITY LIVES WITH RESPECT and DIGNITY. WE ACCOMPLISH THIS BY ENSURING THAT VETERANS and THEIR FAMILIES CAN ACCESS THE FULL RANGE of BENEFITS AVAILABLE to THEM; FIGHTING for THE INTERESTS of AMERICAS INJURED HEROES ON CAPITOL HILL; and EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE GREAT SACRIFICES and NEEDS of VETERANS TRANSITIONING BACK to CIVILIAN LIFE.
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Board and leadership roster (10)
BILL WINTERSTREASURER
GILBERT SHEPARDCOMMANDER
J NEATHAWKADJUTANT
JOEL SANFORD4
JOEL SANFORD4TH VICE COMMANDER
JOHN STEVOBENEFITS PROTECTION LEADER
KLEM BRZUSKIEWICZ3
KLEM BRZUSKIEWICZ3RD VICE COMMANDER
RICH JAWOROWSKISENIOR VICE COMMANDER
ROBERT KUELPER2ND VICE COMMANDER
About this charity
- Recognized since
- January 1942
- Location
- 4428 MIDLOTHIAN TPKE, CRESTWOOD, IL 60418-1917
- County
- Cook
- In care of
- % JOHN FANNING
- Primary officer
- GILBERT SHEPARD, COMMANDER
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Filing and classification
- Latest tax year
- 2024
- Tax period began
- July 1, 2024
- Return type
- 990EZ
- Tax preparer
- THE STAPLETON GROUP
- NTEE classification
- Military & Veterans Organizations (W30)
- IRS tax category
- Military & Veterans Organizations
- Revocation date
- November 15, 2019