· Public charity
Disabled American Veterans Department of Minnesota Inc
To assist in providing for the rehabilitation and continuing welfare of america's disabled veterans, their families, dependents and survivors.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 36 grants below total $350,866 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $476,093 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $125,227 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $237k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAV NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION | $65,514 |
| DAV CHAPTER 37 HUTCHINSON | $16,250 |
| DAV CHAPTER 1 MINNEAPOLIS | $12,000 |
| MN VETERANS OUTDOORS | $10,198 |
| MINNESOTA VETERANS FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| DAV CHAPTER 38 PARK RAPIDS | $9,741 |
| DAV CHAPTER 39 ANOKA | $9,329 |
| DAV CHAPTER 40 SOUTH METRO | $9,264 |
| DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION INC | $8,969 |
| DAV CHAPTER 3 HIBBING | $8,800 |
| DAV CHAPTER 22 CROW WING CTY | $8,700 |
| DAV CHAPTER 25 FERGUS FALLS | $8,700 |
| DAV CHAPTER 20 FAIRBAULT | $8,500 |
| DAV CHAPTER 7 NORTH CENTRAL | $8,125 |
| DAV CHAPTER 13 ITASCA CO | $7,750 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- DADisabled American Veterans National Service Foundation5× · 2020–2025 · $201k · revenue +2%
- DADISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS INC6× · 2019–2025 · $71k · revenue +39%
- DADISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS3× · 2021–2025 · $27k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- DADisabled American Veterans Auxiliaryone grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue +7%
- DADISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS AUXILIARY INCone grant, 2019 · $13k
- TCTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +13%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization helps veterans and their families improve their quality of life.
To provide services to individuals who were disabled due to or during their military service.
Assisting disabled American veterans
Assistance to disabled american veterans including assistance with claims, information and literature and assist local chapters and coordinate state convention
To provide support for veterans & family
The beterment of all disabled veterans
Assist military veterans and their dependents in obtaining various benefits.
To provide assistance to Disabled American Veterans, their families and survivors. We assist with transportation to and from medical appointments. We also provide free assistance with benefit claims.
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;…
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…
To assistance the welfare of disabled uswar veterans
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Disabled American Veterans Itasca Chapter NO13 and the most unlike its peers is Twin Cities Public Television Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 84 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans National Service Foundation ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS 18 CARLTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS MINNEAPOLIS CHAPTER 1 ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS Lyle C Pearson Sr Chapter 10 ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS CHAPTER 25 ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS CROW WING COUNTY CHAPTER 22 ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS ITASCA CHAPTER NO13 ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL CHAPTER 32 ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS GILBERT W NORDMANN CHAPTER 6 ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS Kolstad Chapter 23 ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS- CHAPTER 15 ↗
- Who funds MN VETERANS PANTRY ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Disabled American Veterans of Minnesota Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Disabled American Veterans Department of Minnesota Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.