an outfitThe Salvation Army
The charity that put the donut in the war, and the war in the donut.
The Christian charitable organisation whose World War I canteens fried donuts for American soldiers, and whose Chicago branch created National Donut Day in 1938.
The story Cited · wp-national-donut-day
The 1938 day was a Depression fundraiser: money for people in need, and recognition for the Lassies of 1917 and 1918.
Today Inference
Donut shops across the country still give donuts away on the first Friday in June, mostly without mentioning the fundraiser.
The particulars
| status | open |
|---|---|
| region | The United States |
| confidence | high · updated 2026-09-16 |
Who it runs with
organizationsThe Salvation Army doughnut hutsThe huts in France.and of this page it says: The organisation.eventsNational Donut DayThe day.and of this page it says: Who created it.
Where we got it
Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.