The DAAR Charitable Foundation is a organization focused on improving the lives of children, supporting the arts and remembering the past in Ukraine. 

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The DAAR Foundation not only works toward remembering the past and improving the lives of the less fortunate, it also acts to preserve the cultural heritage of Ukrainians. Among culturally related projects in the past, DAAR Foundation has developed art programs with local artists and children from foster care, joint fundraising events with local and international artists and photographers to raise money for other DAAR related projects and sponsorship of film clubs in Ukrainian universities which screen culturally-related movies.

In May 2003 the first collection of more than three hundred items was transferred to Ukraine with a support of the DAAR Foundation. Oksana de Linde, a granddaughter of Vasyl Krychevsky, came to Ukraine for the first time after the Artist passed away fifty years ago and brought this priceless gift with her. The works were donated to six museums in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Poltava, and Kaniv. A second group of Krychevsky's works were returned in February of 2004. DAAR is also currently working with the estates of other Ukrainian artists who fled during Soviet occupation to return culturally significant works to Ukraine.

Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky (1873-1952) was an outstanding Ukrainian
architect, graphic artist, illustrator, theatre and cinema designer, scholar
and researcher of the Ukrainian national folk art. He was a founder of the
Ukrainian Academy of Arts, and taught as a college professor in Kyiv,
Myrhorod, Lviv, and other places in Ukraine.

Vasyl H. Krychevsky is considered to be the founder of the current Ukrainian
national symbols. It was he who made the sketches of the large and the small
Ukrainian emblem (trident) and national currency notes (Hryvna) on request
of Mykhailo Grushevsky immediately after the close of World War I. He was
a well known scholar - one of the founders and educators of the Ukrainian
Academy of Art, where a new generation of Ukrainian artists was formed.

The very large and many-sided private collection of Vasyl Krychevsky's
works and Ukrainian folk art, held by the artist, was mainly destroyed in
Kyiv on February 7, 1918 during the Civil war in Russia. The collection was
stored in the home of Mykhailo Grushevsky, the head of the Ukrainian
government at the time.  Grushevsky's home was destroyed by the invading
Red Army.

When Vasyl Krychevsky and his family left Ukraine during WWII some
additional artwork and items from his personal collection were stolen,
lost and or destroyed.

Before 2003 the largest collection of artwork of Vasyl Krychevsky (over
three hundred pieces) was held by the Ukrainian Museum in New York City.
The artwork were mostly collected and donated to the museum by Vasyl
Krychevsky's stepson.