Disabled American Veterans Department of Montana

Overview

Mission

The dav manages a volunteer transportation network, which is responsible for transporting veterans to and from their va scheduled appointments. This also includes scheduled appointments for all homeless veterans and veterans that are students that need rides to a scheduled va appointment. The funds for the vans are all raised by donations. Then when purchased, they are turned over to the va who maintains them and pays for all fuel. In return, the va allows the dav to manage the dav volunteer trasnportation network with our entire volunteer staff and our two paid hospital service coordinators (hscs) each of which manages ten local area coordinators (lacs) and close to 250 voluneteer drivers in different areas throughout Montana. The dav is helping all veterans and continues to grow.the dav donates funds to other organizations that also support the needs of veterans such as the state veterans homes in columbia falls and glendive, the state cemeteries and some others that are sometimes ne

Operating model

Revenue model

Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.

Distribution model

Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 23
• Transparency & Controls: 93
• Sustainability: 44
• Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 22.3% of revenue deployed · 24.5% of spending went to programs
• Governance: Filed governance answers
• Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $41K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
• Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
• Schedules: 2 filed schedules
• Filing history: 4 filing years from 2017 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
• Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
• Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
• People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

• High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 22/100.
• High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
• High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
• Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
• High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
• Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.