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Disabled American Veterans National Service Foundation

Develops financial resources for the assistance, aid, maintenance, care, support and rehabilitation of sick and injured veterans and their dependents, either directly or by contributions to the service programs of the disabled american veterans national organization or its departments or chapters.

$6.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$36MPublic Benefit$5.0MHealth$2.8M
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $84k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $426k
  • $250k+2 grants · $5.6M
$62,400
Median grant
11
States reached
$189M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Disbaled American Veterans$5,023,200
US Department of Veterans Affairs$590,530
Department of Nebraska$131,700
Department of Wyoming$96,000
Department of Vermont$78,100
Department of Montana$62,400
Department of Nevada$58,100
Department of Tennessee$27,100
Department of Maine$27,000
Department of North Dakota$16,700
Department of Delaware$12,800
Disbaled American Veterans$8,758
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $314k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DEPT OF MT - DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS: $142k → 9%Dept of MT - Disabled American Veterans: $80k → 9%Dept of MT - Disabled American Veterans: $58k → 9%DEPT OF MT - DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS: $34k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

ME
VT
WA
MT
ND
OR
NV
WY
UT
CO
NE
KY
WV
VA
DE
KS
AR
TN
DC
HI
GA
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.
$44M · 19 repeat orgs$221k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
4

Total granted

$44M
$204k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+34%

Still filing today

68%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitHuman ServicesOther
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

  • DA
    Disabled American Veterans
    8× · 2017–2024 · $33M · revenue +29%
  • DA
    DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPT OF NE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $635k · revenue +56% · 65% of their budget
  • DA
    DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPARTMENT OF MONTANA
    7× · 2018–2024 · $516k · revenue +58% · 35% of their budget

Funded once

  • DA
    DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPT CO
    one grant, 2023 · $144k · revenue -86%
  • DA
    DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS 47graduated
    one grant, 2017 · $36k · revenue +406% · 34% of their budget
  • DA
    DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPT OF ARKANSAS
    one grant, 2019 · $14k · revenue -11%
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.

1
Disabled American Veterans

The organization helps veterans and their families improve their quality of life.

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2
Disabled American Veterans of Texas Service Foundation
Human Services
3
Disabled American Veterans Department of Massachusetts Inc

To provide services to individuals who were disabled due to or during their military service.

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4
Disabled American Veterans Department of Kentucky Inc

Assist military veterans and their dependents in obtaining various benefits.

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5
Disabled American Veterans

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.

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6
Disabled American Veterans

Assisting disabled American veterans

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7
Disabled American Veterans

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

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8
Disabled American Veterans

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;…

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9
Disabled American Veterans - Dept of Nj

Assistance to disabled american veterans including assistance with claims, information and literature and assist local chapters and coordinate state convention

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10
Disabled American Veterans 5

Veterans' assistance

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11
Disabled American Veterans

Provide assistance to veterans

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12
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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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 Disabled American Veterans Dept of Hawaii. 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

20 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. 20 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
10/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Disabled American Veterans: $32,893,645 · OtherDisabled American VeteransDepartment of Veterans Affairs: $6,343,508 · OtherDepartment of Veterans Affairs+14 more: $3,342,672 · Other+14 moreDisabled American Veterans Department of Nevada: $405,005 · Public BenefitDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPARTMENT OF KANSAS INCORPORATED: $187,556 · Public BenefitDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPT CO: $144,000 · Public BenefitDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPARTMENT OF DELAWARE INC: $120,500 · Public BenefitDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPT OF UTAH: $75,575 · Public Benefit+2 more: $26,500 · Public BenefitDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPARTMENT OF MONTANA: $515,700 · Human Services
Other$42,579,825Public Benefit$959,136Human Services$515,700

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDisabled American Veterans: $32,893,645 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPT OF NE INC: $635,225 over 8y, 65% of budgetDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPARTMENT OF MONTANA: $515,700 over 7y, 35% of budgetDisabled American Veterans Department of Nevada: $405,005 over 6y, 74% of budgetDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPARTMENT OF OREGON: $342,395 over 4y, 89% of budgetDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPT OF WASHINGTON: $207,124 over 3y, 22% of budgetDisabled American Veterans Department of Maine: $193,657 over 6y, 38% of budgetDISABLED AMER VETERANS OF TENN #41: $189,100 over 5y, 20% of budgetDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPARTMENT OF KANSAS INCORPORATED: $187,556 over 3y, 51% of budgetDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPARTMENT OF GEORGIA: $185,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPT CO: $144,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPT OF VA INC: $132,196 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPARTMENT OF DELAWARE INC: $120,500 over 7y, 14% of budgetDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPT OF UTAH: $75,575 over 3y, 42% of budgetDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS 47: $35,900 over 1y, 34% of budgetDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPT OF ND DAV: $16,700 over 1y, 20% of budgetDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPT OF ARKANSAS: $14,400 over 1y, 13% of budget
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Disabled American Vet…
Disabled American VeteransKY45.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 National Service Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Disabled American Veterans National Service Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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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    How do I get to Disabled American Veterans National Service Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Disabled American Veterans National Service Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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