· Public charity
Disabled American Veterans of Minnesota Foundation 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 87% of DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $419,978 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $500,432 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $80,454 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 $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $239k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA INC | $118,595 |
| DAV NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS CHAPTER 38 | $55,200 |
| ST CLOUD VA HEALTH CARE | $34,539 |
| MINNESOTA VETERAN OUTDOORS | $32,172 |
| MINNEAPOLIS VA HEALTH CARE | $26,422 |
| MINNESOTA VFW | $26,088 |
| AMERICAN LEGION | $24,193 |
| MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART | $11,769 |
| OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA | $10,000 |
| DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS CHAPTER 1 | $8,000 |
| MINNESOTA ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE | $8,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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 +65% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k 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 VETERANS8× · 2018–2025 · $427k · revenue +73% · 59% of their budget
- DADisabled American Veterans National Service Foundation5× · 2018–2025 · $410k · revenue +65%
- MAMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS2× · 2020–2023 · $45k · revenue +151%
Funded once
- MDMINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRSone grant, 2021 · $29k
- SPSAINT PAUL SERVES FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +62%
- VBVA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEMone grant, 2019 · $10k
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 minnesota paralyzed veterans of america (mnpva) a minnesota nonprofit organization, is an officially recognized paralyzed veterans of america chapter. mnpva assists veterans with spinal cord injuries or spinal cord diseases, such as ms…
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.
Provide grants to organizations supporting our organizations mission and offer recognition to individuals who provide healthy community engagement opportunities.
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…
Veterans serving Veterans advancing the interest and work for the betterment of all wounded, gassed, injured, and Disabled Veterans. To Cooperate with the Department of Veterans Affairs and other public and private agencies devoted to the…
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;…
Assistance to disabled american veterans including assistance with claims, information and literature and assist local chapters and coordinate state convention
Assisting veterans with services-connected disabilities and related benefits. service officers to help find benefits for veterans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Disabled American Veterans (Dav) Charitable Service Trust and the most unlike its peers is Last Man Club of Vietnam War Era of Saint Peter. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 31 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 ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans National Service Foundation ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds EVERY THIRD SATURDAY INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA VFW CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LAST MAN CLUB OF VIETNAM WAR ERA OF SAINT PETER ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA AMERICAN LEGION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds SAINT PAUL SERVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY VETERANS SERVICE OFFICERS ↗
- Who funds Stairlifts for Vets ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS MINNEAPOLIS CHAPTER 1 ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES INC A CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds IRONWOOD SPRINGS CHRISTIAN RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED HEROES LEAGUE ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Disabled American Veterans Department of Minnesota Inc · Minnesota Veterans 4 Veterans Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 of Minnesota Foundation 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.
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