· Public charity
The Bowlers to Veterans Link
THE BOWLERS TO VETERANS LINK provides recreational and therapeutic programs and services for active duty and veterans to boost morale and speed recuperation.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $142k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $442k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $377k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MYND VR INC | $216,200 |
| PATRIOT POINT LLC | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,538 |
| VFW POST 720 | $32,500 |
| PENNSYLVANIA SOLDIERS' & SAILORS' HOME | $27,191 |
| RICHMOND VAMC | $25,650 |
| SITTER & BARFOOT VETS CARE CENTER | $25,600 |
| ARIZONA STATE VETERANS HOME | $24,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $21,577 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| GV SONNY MONTGOMERY VAMC | $18,810 |
| VA SIERRA NEVADA HCS | $18,050 |
| BATTERY WAREHOUSE & BATTERY GIANT | $18,000 |
| WARRIOR FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS | $16,821 |
| SERVICE DOGS FOR VETERANS | $16,821 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
82 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $306k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- USUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE3× · 2023–2025 · $42k · revenue +8%
- VDVETERANS DROP-IN CENTER3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +25%
- SDSERVICE DOGS FOR VETERANS2× · 2024–2025 · $31k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- RVROUDEBUSH VAMCone grant, 2023 · $51k
- HBHOME BASE SWFLone grant, 2021 · $30k
- HBHOME BASE SW FLORIDAone grant, 2022 · $25k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
to assist veterans in obtaining service animals
Veterans hunting-fishing trips and other verterans activities
Service dogs for disabled veterans
Provide and train service dogs for disabled service member and/or veterans
Service Dog training for Disabled Veterans
Providing service dogs to veterans and first responders
Supplying service dogs to verterans with post traumatic stress disorder.
Provide service dogs to us military veterans
To take eligible veterans to dc.
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 183 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Bible Society · Fisher House Foundation Inc · Veterans United Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bowlers to Veterans Link funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bowlers to Veterans Link. Bigger dots raise more.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
How this is measured
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