Disabled American Veterans

The Disabled American Veterans, or DAV, is an organization for disabled veterans that helps them and their families through various means. It currently has over 1.2 million members. As of January 2011, Charity Navigator rates the organization four out of four stars for its Organizational Efficiency (the balance between the amount of money spent on programs of the organization versus the expense of maintaining the organization and raising funds) and its Organizational Capacity (based on its anticipated sustainable growth).

Source: Wikipedia

Campaign Finance

$250 Given
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Figures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:

  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
  • only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
  • corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.

For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.

covers through Q3 2012

  • Top Recipients

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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.

  • Republicans vs. Democrats

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  • State vs. Federal

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  • Top PAC Recipients

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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.
View all campaign finance data for Disabled American Veterans Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Lobbying

$1,160,000 Spent
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Figures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.

For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.

covers roughly through Q3, 2012

Lobbying on Behalf of Disabled American Veterans

  • Names of Lobbyists
  • Firm Hired Amount
    Disabled American Veterans $1,160,000
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
    • Veterans Affairs
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
    Bill No. Title
    H.R.26 Veterans Mental Health Screening and Assessment Act
    H.R.115 CHAMPVA Children's Protection Act of 2011
    H.R.120 Disabled Veterans' Surviving Spouses Home Loans Act
    H.R.178 Military Surviving Spouses Equity Act
    H.R.186 To amend title 10, United States Code, to expand the eligibility for concurrent receipt of military retired pay and veterans' disability compensation to include all members of the uniformed services who are retired under chapter 61 of such title for disab
    H.R.240 To amend title 38, United States Code, to promote jobs for veterans through the use of sole source contracts by Department of Veterans Affairs for purposes of meeting the contracting goals and preferences of the Department of Veterans Affairs for small bu
    H.R.248 Depleted Uranium Screening and Testing Act
    H.R.303 Retired Pay Restoration Act
    H.R.309 Samuel B. Moody Bataan Death March Compensation Act
    H.R.329 Chiropractic Care Available to All Veterans Act
View all lobbying data for Disabled American Veterans Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 15 dockets; Submitted to 7 dockets
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All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.

Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated daily from Regulations.gov by way of Docket Wrench

The tables show occurrences of "Disabled American Veterans" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

Advisory Committees

9 people on 6 committees
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Data is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.

The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.

covers through 2011

Table shows employees of "Disabled American Veterans" that sat on federal advisory committees.

  • Agency
  • Representation
  • Toggle Department of Veterans Affairs 9 people on 6 committees
View all advisory committee data for Disabled American Veterans