VFW POST 3838 AVENUE OF FLAGS
EIN 99-3248450 · Military & Veterans Organizations (W30)
What they do
THE AVENUE of FLAGS BEGAN IN 1987. VFW POST 3838 and THE COUNTY COMMISSIONER WORKED TOGETHER to PRESENT VETERANS CASKET FLAGS, THAT HAD BEEN GIVEN to THE POST, to CREATE A VISIBLE MEMORIAL LOCATED AT NORTH COUNTY PARK ALONGSIDE A ROAD WITHIN THE PARK THAT DRIVERS PASSING BY COULD SEE THESE FLAGS. IT STARTED WITH 80 FLAGS and HAS NOW GROWN to OVER 950 FLAGS. CEREMONIES ARE HELD ON MEMORIAL DAY, INDPENDENCE DAY and VETERANS DAY to INDUCT NEW VETERANS INTO THE PROGRAM WHO HAVE PASSED and THEIR FAMILY PURCHASED A FLAG for THEM to BE A PART of THE AVENUE of FLAGS. THE PROGRAM is STRICTLY DONATION and VOLUNTEER BASED. NO ONE RECEIVES ANY COMPENSATION for THEIR SUPPORT or THE MANY HOURS of WORK REPQURED to MAINTAIN THE FLAGS.
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Board and leadership roster (8)
BRIAN SANDERSDIRECTOR
CAROLYN DAVISDIRECTOR
DAVID CANTRELLCHAIRMAN
GUNNAR KNUDTSONDIRECTOR
JAMES COLYERPRESIDENT
PETE POEDIRECTOR
RAELYNN MUNOZDIRECTOR
SCOTT SMITHDIRECTOR
About this charity
- Recognized since
- January 2025
- Location
- 1049 N KINGSHIGHWAY ST, CPE GIRARDEAU, MO 63701-3502
- County
- Cape Girardeau
- In care of
- % DAVID J CANTRELL
- Primary officer
- DAVID J CANTRELL, Chairman
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Filing and classification
- Latest tax year
- 2024
- Tax period began
- July 1, 2024
- Return type
- 990EZ
- Tax preparer
- BEGLEY YOUNG UNTERREINER & WHITE LLC
- NTEE classification
- Military & Veterans Organizations (W30)
- IRS tax category
- Military & Veterans Organizations