Disabled American Veterans (Dav) Charitable Service Trust
ActivePublic & Society Benefit
Erlanger, KYWebsite
About Disabled American Veterans (Dav) Charitable Service Trust
Empowering veterans to lead high-quality lives with respect and dignity.
Focus Areas
Veteran rehabilitationHomelessness and housing supportMobility assistance (amputations, spinal cord injuries, vision/hearing loss)Therapeutic and recreational programsCaregiver and family supportEducation and workforce readiness for veterans
Who They Fund
people experiencing homelessness / indigent individualsindividuals needing rehabilitation or therapeutic services (including camp/retreat participants)people with transportation or mobility needsthose needing counseling for claims/benefit filing
About Disabled American Veterans (Dav) Charitable Service Trust
A defining feature of the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust is its combination of large-scale benefits support and direct service funding for veterans and their families. The largest recent grant in the data was $7,327,983 to Disabled American Veterans in Erlanger, KY for counseling and claims/filing assistance, showing how central navigation of benefits is to the trust’s work. Alongside that, the trust has made repeated seven-figure awards for employment initiatives, including DAV - Employment Initiative grants in 2024 and 2023 and a 2025 grant to Disabled American Veterans for employment. The portfolio also includes funding for homelessness and crisis intervention, transportation networks, rehabilitation and therapeutic programs, and health-related support. Recent grants reach both national service providers and DAV-affiliated programs, with awards to organizations such as Save a Warrior in Columbus, Ohio and the Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program in Washington, DC. The pattern points to a funder that supports veteran stability through practical services, legal and benefits help, and programs tied to mobility, recovery, and reintegration.
What Disabled American Veterans (Dav) Charitable Service Trust Funds
Counseling and claims support is a major thread in the trust’s grantmaking. In 2025, it awarded $494,381 to Disabled American Veterans in Erlanger, KY for counseling and claims/filing assistance, following a much larger $7,327,983 award in 2024 for the same category. Employment is another recurring area: the trust gave $1,838,805 in 2024 to DAV - Employment Initiative and $1,746,716 in 2025 to Disabled American Veterans for employment. It also funds therapeutic programming, including $500,000 in 2025 to Disabled American Veterans for Camp Corral and $225,000 in 2025 to Warrior Canine Connection Inc for rehabilitation/therapeutic work. Transportation support appears as well, such as $1,233,446 in 2024 to DAV NSF - Transportation Network and $252,119 in 2025 to Disabled American Veterans for the NCA Golf Cart Program.
How Disabled American Veterans (Dav) Charitable Service Trust Gives
Typical grants cluster in the mid-five-figure range, with p25 at $17,500, a median of $25,200, and p75 at $59,750. The recent-gifts list also shows a smaller number of very large awards in the hundreds of thousands and millions, especially for DAV-related programs. The trust is a regular funder and uses competitive grant programs that accept unsolicited applications. Its grantmaking appears recurring rather than one-off: several grantees or DAV program lines appear across multiple years, including counseling and claims support, employment, transportation, and therapeutic programming. It does not make grants to individuals.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$17.8M
Total Assets
$91.1M
Total Revenue
$33.7M
Total Expenses
$18.4M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $18K and $60K, with a median of $25K.
25th Percentile
$18K
Median
$25K
75th Percentile
$60K
Geographic Reach
National38 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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