Kentucky · Nonprofit
Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust
Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust (Kentucky) receives grants from 232 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,165,213 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,486,378). 143 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 232
- Grants received
- $28M
- Net assets
- $72M
What Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust does
Mission
The Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust is dedicated to one, single purpose: empowering veterans to lead high-quality lives with respect and dignity. To carry out this responsibility, the charitable service trust supports physical and psychological rehabilitation programs; enhances mobility for veterans with amputations and spinal cord injuries; benefits aging veterans; aids and shelters homeless veterans; and evaluates and addresses the needs of veterans wounded in recent wars and conflicts and their caregivers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Grants and allocations to charitable programs. See schedule I listing support provided to programs assisting sick and injured veterans and their families and schedule o describing the need for these programs.
$17,862,856 spentof which $17,862,856 as grants99% of program spendingGrant processing and miscellaneous service expenditures. See schedule I listing support provided to programs assisting sick and injured veterans and their families and schedule o describing the need for these programs.
$116,176 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,979,032.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $62M to $77M (+25%).
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.
85% of Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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 58 funders to 100 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $3.4M.
83 of 232 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 232 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 (DAV) Charitable Service Trust has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
94% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 28% · 2019 22% · 2020 20% · 2021 27% · 2022 38% · 2023 25% — 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
53% of Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
89% of Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.1M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Kentucky, across 32 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25M arriving through sponsors registered in 28 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.
Against its field
Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 270 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 270 public benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 26 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust: 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 (DAV) Charitable Service Trust?
- Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust (Kentucky) receives grants from 232 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,165,213 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,486,378). 143 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust have?
- IRS filings report 232 organizations giving $28,165,213 in grants to Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust, 143 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $8,486,378 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 232 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