Kentucky · Nonprofit
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS (Kentucky) receives grants from 345 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,471,433 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($7,500,000). 172 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $193M
- Funders on record
- 345
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $596M
What Disabled American Veterans does
Mission
We are dedicated to one single purpose: empowering veterans to lead high-quality lives with respect and dignity. See schedule o for further details.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Service program: our national service program features more than 100 offices nationwide and includes a robust corps of national and transition service officers who stand ready to offer advice and represent veterans in their claims for the benefits they have earned in service to us all. With our chapter service officers, department service officers and transition service officers, as well as county veteran service officers, dav has over 4,200 benefits experts. All dav benefits advocates are veterans and are available nationwide to help other veterans and their families navigate their benefits from the department of veterans affairs. (continued on schedule o)
$40,806,969 spentof which $62,500 as grants38% of program spendingPublic awareness outreach: when our heroes return home from military service, many struggle to regain a sense of normalcy. They must start the long and often difficult process of healing and rehabilitation so that they can begin to rebuild the lives they once knew. They must find jobs and often housing, as well as relearn how to relate to their families after having been away for long periods of time. Accessing basic health services can be daunting. That's why dav is here to help them every step of the way. Too many of our wounded, ill and injured veterans haven't accessed the benefits and services they've earned. Most simply aren't aware of their rights and benefits or the free help our national service program can provide with filing for benefits from the department of veterans affairs and other government agencies. (continued on schedule o)
$27,088,652 spent$98,529 earned by the program25% of program spendingCommunications program: dav's national communications department runs internal and external communications programs-including, but not limited to, publications, media relations, digital material and numerous outreach efforts-to tell dav's story and support its key objectives. A bimonthly magazine informs our members on critical issues and policies impacting the federal benefits and services veterans have earned through their service. It also brings attention to dav's state-level departments and our local chapters by highlighting their many successful service programs and, therefore, inspiring strong and effective strategies in communities from coast to coast. (continued on schedule o)
$11,784,098 spentof which $2,000 as grants11% of program spendingOther program services membership program: the lifeblood of dav is its membership. When veterans join dav, they enlist in a fight to ensure our nation keeps its promises to those who've served. The unwavering devotion that members dedicate to our mission has made dav the premier veteran's service organization, and our commitment has spanned more than a century. Dav is the leading voice for our nation's injured and ill veterans, regardless of service era. This commitment is expressed in our mission statement and makes dav unique among other organizations. Dav was founded in the immediate aftermath of world war I, as no group then existed to provide and advocate for veterans forever changed by military service. Our legacy has evolved to meet the changing needs of members, families and caregivers amid the historical journey of our nation. Our military and american society continues to change, and dav embraces those changes to ensure veterans of all service eras and genders are able to have their chance at the american dream. Today, social networking and other changes to the ways americans communicate allow dav members to play a larger role than ever as spokespeople advocating for the…
$28,417,828 spentof which $7,315,494 as grants26% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $108,097,547.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $647M to $538M (−17%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 78 funders to 87 funders, grant income rose $336k → $575k.
18 of 345 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $65M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Disabled American Veterans National Service Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS raised.
From the IRS filings of DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 345 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 23% · 2019 25% · 2020 14% · 2021 26% · 2022 10% · 2023 16% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 40 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $647k arriving through sponsors registered in 14 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 23 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS?
- DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS (Kentucky) receives grants from 345 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,471,433 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($7,500,000). 172 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS have?
- IRS filings report 345 organizations giving $12,471,433 in grants to DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS, 172 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 345 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing