GrantmakersMissouri

Disabled American Veterans

Kirksville, MO · EIN 43-1428547. Reported 38 grants totalling $808,562 to 32 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

32organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$808,562granted, 2020-2023
33%of grantees funded again the next year
42%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 32 distinct organizations, with 42% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 33% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $12,720; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $180,085. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$10,000 - $25,000
33 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant
$100,000 - $250,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Disabled American Veterans National Service FoundationErlanger, KY$340,293442023
Disabled American VeteransErlanger, KY$145,000332023
Missouri Veterans Cemetery Springfield Ind Assistance LeagueSpringfield, MO$25,000222023
Jennifer Moreno Department of Veterans Affairs Medical CenterSan Diego, CA$15,000112021
Disabled American VeteransWaynesville, MO$12,720112023
Disabled American VeteransSpringfield, MO$10,549112023
Bloomfield Assistance League of the Missouri Veterans Cemetery IncBloomfield, MO$10,000112023
Cameron Missouri Veterans Home Assistance LeagueCameron, MO$10,000112023
Cape Girardeau Veterans Home FoundationCpe Girardeau, MO$10,000112023
Dav Chapter 41Carthage, MO$10,000112023
Disabled American VeteransSaint Louis, MO$10,000112023
Disabled American VeteransKansas City, MO$10,000112023
Disabled American VeteransIndependence, MO$10,000112023
Disabled American VeteransJefferson Cty, MO$10,000112023
Disabled American VeteransWest Plains, MO$10,000112023
Disabled American VeteransDexter, MO$10,000112023
Disabled American VeteransKirksville, MO$10,000112023
Disabled American VeteransJoplin, MO$10,000112023
Disabled American VeteransSaint Louis, MO$10,000112023
Disabled American VeteransBuffalo, MO$10,000112023
Disabled American VeteransCuba, MO$10,000112023
Disabled American VeteransPeculiar, MO$10,000112023
Disabled American VeteransBranson, MO$10,000112023
Disabled American VeteransPark Hills, MO$10,000112023
Ft Leonard Veterans CemeteryWaynesville, MO$10,000112023
Jacksonville Assistance League of the Missouri Veterans Cemetery IncJacksonville, MO$10,000112023
Mexico Veterans Home Assistance LeagueMexico, MO$10,000112023
Missouri Veterans Cemetery Assistance League Higginsville IncHigginsville, MO$10,000112023
Missouri Veterans Home Assistance LeagueSaint James, MO$10,000112023
Mt Vernon Veterans Home Assistance LeagueMount Vernon, MO$10,000112023
Stl Veterans Home Assistance LeagueSaint Louis, MO$10,000112023
West-Central Missouri Vetrans Home Assistance LeagueWarrensburg, MO$10,000112023

3 of 32 (9%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 3 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 11 of 32 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Mutual Benefit
4 orgs
Public & Societal Benefit
4 orgs
Human Services
2 orgs
Religion
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20203$44,119$15,000
20212$50,000$25,000
20222$270,085$135,042
202331$444,358$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

60% of its giving went to organizations in Kentucky. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Kentucky
$485K
Missouri
$308K
California
$15K

Down to the city

Erlanger, KY
$485K
Springfield, MO
$36K
Saint Louis, MO
$30K
Waynesville, MO
$23K
San Diego, CA
$15K
Bloomfield, MO
$10K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Disabled American Veterans (dav) Charitable Service Trust2 shared recipientsVeterans United Foundation2 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Kentucky.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Disabled American Veterans's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 31 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 411 E Northtown Rd, Kirksville, MO, 63501.

EIN 43-1428547 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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