How much does Disabled American Veterans give?

Disabled American Veterans reported 61 itemized grants totaling $6,795,935, out of $7,379,994 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 59 and 62 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Disabled American Veterans fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (84%), Recreation & Sports (12%), Public Benefit (4%).

Who are Disabled American Veterans's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Department of Veterans Affairs ($8.2M), Camp Corral ($6.7M), Disabled American Veterans Department of California ($3.4M).

Does Disabled American Veterans fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Disabled American Veterans based?

Disabled American Veterans is based in KY.

Disabled American Veterans

Disabled American Veterans at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Disabled American Veterans

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Disabled American Veterans?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Disabled American Veterans National Service Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.

We are dedicated to one single purpose: empowering veterans to lead high-quality lives with respect and dignity.

$7.4M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.4M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$40MRecreation & Sports$5.9MPublic Benefit$1.7MArts & Culture$97kHealth$75kScience & Tech$35kCrime & Legal$12kCommunity Improvement$10k

02FY2025 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 61 grants below total $6,795,935, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,379,994 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $584,059 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k5 grants · $26k
$10k–50k26 grants · $709k
$50k–250k26 grants · $2.8M
$250k+4 grants · $3.3M

$47,185

Median grant

States reached

$725M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CAMP CORRAL	$1,387,000
BOULDER CREST RETREAT	$1,200,000
DEPT OF CALIFORNIA	$382,678
DEPT OF TEXAS	$287,672
NATIONAL CEMETERY ADMINISTRATION	$225,906
DEPT OF PENNSYLVANIA	$203,385
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS	$202,792
DEPT OF MASSACHUSETTS	$190,310
DEPT OF FLORIDA	$159,073
DEPT OF OHIO	$140,588
DEPT OF NORTH CAROLINA	$131,953
DEPT OF MINNESOTA	$110,049
DEPT OF ARIZONA	$108,922
DEPT OF MICHIGAN	$99,224
DEPT OF GEORGIA	$90,989

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$54M · 63 repeat orgs$496k to everyone else

63 repeat relationships: 58 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$54M

$466k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

+41%

Still filing today

89%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Public BenefitArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

CAMP CORRAL
9× · 2017–2025 · $6.7M · revenue +10% · 30% of their budget
BC
BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION
8× · 2018–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +230%
DA
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPARTMENT OF NEW YORK INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +67% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

SO
State of Minnesota Veterans Home
one grant, 2019 · $251k
NA
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF VETERANS' RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATIONSgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +72%
TC
The Conference Board Incgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +41%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Disabled American Veterans of Texas Service Foundation

Human Services

Disabled American Veterans Dept of Utah

We are dedicated to a single purpose: 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;…

Public Benefit

Disabled American Veterans 5

Veterans' assistance

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Disabled American Veterans Inc

Fulfilling the promises to the men and women who served our Country

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Disabled American Veterans

We are dedicated to one single purpose: empowering veterans to lead high-quality lives with respect and dignity. see schedule o for further details.

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Amvets American Veterans Department of Florida Service Foundation Inc

Public Benefit

Vietnam Veterans of America Alaska

Assisting veterans with services-connected disabilities and related benefits. service officers to help find benefits for veterans.

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Disabled American Veterans

Empowering Veterans to lead high quality lives with respect and dignity.

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Disabled American Veterans

Made up exclusively of men and women disabled in our nations defense, the organization is dedicated to one single purpose - building better lives for all of our nations disabled veterans and their families.

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Disabled American Veterans Lee Hartell 25 Chapter

Assist disabled veterans veterans and their dependents. foster fellowship among disabled veterans through participation in fraternal activities

Public Benefit

Disabled American Veteran Sonoma County Chapter 48

DAV is a nonprofit charity that provides lifetime support for veterans of all generations and their families. Nationally, it helps more than 1 million veterans in positive, life-changing ways each year. With over 1,200 chapters and more…

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Disabled American Veterans

Helping needy Veterans and their families to pay for food, rent, medical needs, gas for vehicles, assist homeless veterans in special need, give rides to veteran to medical appointment, support local homeless for veterans. Assist State and…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Disabled American Veterans Dept Co; the most unlike its peers is The Spacekind Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 74 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

61/64

Grantees still filing

36/64

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$42,804,971Youth Development$6,688,792Human Services$2,383,737Public Benefit$2,321,380Arts & Culture$145,000Community Improvement$50,000Health$20,000Employment$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Disabled American Veterans National Service FoundationKY45.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 0 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Disabled American Veterans National Service Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Disabled American Veterans funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Disabled American Veterans. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home