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Disabled American Veterans of Minnesota Foundation Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· 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.

$500k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$119k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$1.4MHealth$299kRecreation & Sports$171kHousing & Shelter$53kPublic Benefit$51kFood & Nutrition$39kMembership Benefit$12kEducation$5k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $419,978, the rows itemized in this filing. The $500,432 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $80,454 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 $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $239k
$26,422
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FARGO VAMC - VAVS: $7k → 12%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $10k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $9k → 11%SERVING OUR TROOPS: $15k → 14%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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 11 repeat orgs$276k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
13

Total granted

$1.7M
$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+39%

Still filing today

73%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitHuman ServicesEmploymentMembership BenefitHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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× · 2018–2025 · $427k · revenue +73% · 59% of their budget
  • DA
    Disabled American Veterans National Service Foundation
    5× · 2018–2025 · $410k · revenue +65%
  • MA
    MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS
    2× · 2020–2023 · $45k · revenue +151%

Funded once

  • MD
    MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
    one grant, 2021 · $29k
  • SP
    SAINT PAUL SERVES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +62%
  • DA
    DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS CHAPTER 41
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Minnesota Paralyzed Veterans of America

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…

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2
Disabled American Veterans

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

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3
Disabled American Veterans of Texas Service Foundation
Human Services
4
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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5
Vfw Dept of Mn 210 Lakeville Post Vfw

Provide grants to organizations supporting our organizations mission and offer recognition to individuals who provide healthy community engagement opportunities.

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6
Minnesota American Legion Auxiliary and the Sons of the American
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7
Disabled American Veterans Kolstad Chapter 23

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…

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8
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
9
Amvets American Veterans Department of Florida Service Foundation Inc
Public Benefit
10
Disabled American Veterans Itasca Chapter NO13

Assist disabled veterans in any manner possible.

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11
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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12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Disabled American Veterans (Dav) Charitable Service Trust; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 31 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS: $426,600 · OtherDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANSDisabled American Veterans National Service Foundation: $410,384 · OtherDisabled American Veterans National Service FoundationDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA INC: $400,205 · OtherDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA INCDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS: $151,050 · OtherDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANSMINNESOTA ZOO: $99,032 · OtherMINNESOTA ZOOMinneapolis Fisher House: $76,798 · Other+10 more: $202,011 · Other+10 moreEVERY THIRD SATURDAY INC: $35,140 · Public BenefitMINNESOTA VFW CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION: $26,088 · Public BenefitLAST MAN CLUB OF VIETNAM WAR ERA OF SAINT PETER: $25,000 · Public BenefitMINNESOTA AMERICAN LEGION FOUNDATION: $24,193 · Public BenefitStairlifts for Vets: $10,000 · Public BenefitDisabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust: $10,000 · Public BenefitMINNESOTA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY VETERANS SERVICE OFFICERS: $10,000 · Public BenefitMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS: $45,000 · EmploymentOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $19,000 · Human ServicesSAINT PAUL SERVES FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesINDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES INC A CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $7,422 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART: $11,769 · Membership BenefitMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $8,000 · HealthMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationUNITED HEROES LEAGUE: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,766,080Public Benefit$140,421Employment$45,000Human Services$41,422Membership Benefit$11,769Health$8,000Education$5,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS: $426,600 over 8y, 59% of budgetDisabled American Veterans National Service Foundation: $410,384 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA INC: $400,205 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS: $151,050 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEVERY THIRD SATURDAY INC: $35,140 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMINNESOTA VFW CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION: $26,088 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetLAST MAN CLUB OF VIETNAM WAR ERA OF SAINT PETER: $25,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetMINNESOTA AMERICAN LEGION FOUNDATION: $24,193 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $19,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT PAUL SERVES FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMINNESOTA MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART: $11,769 over 1y, 22% of budgetStairlifts for Vets: $10,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetDisabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY VETERANS SERVICE OFFICERS: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS MINNEAPOLIS CHAPTER 1: $8,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetINDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES INC A CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $7,422 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIRONWOOD SPRINGS CHRISTIAN RANCH INC: $6,820 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED HEROES LEAGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Disabled American Vet…Minnesota Veterans 4 …Xcel Energy FoundationFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Disabled American Veterans Department of Minnesota IncMN22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 1 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 of Minnesota Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Disabled American Veterans of Minnesota Foundation Inc 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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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