North Carolina · Nonprofit
Re-Creation USA Inc
Re-Creation USA Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,236,183 to it, the largest being THE BOWLERS TO VETERANS LINK ($480,372). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $131k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $0
What Re-Creation USA Inc does
Mission
To provide therapeutic live professional entertainment to hospitalied veterns in VA centers and to others in institutions, hospitals and other care centers
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Musical performance - The group is comprised of volunteer college age students who make public appearances in churches, hospitals, parks and institutions to present both religious and familuy oriented music. The group also provides therapeutic entertainment to US veterns through work with the Veterns administration.
$353,258 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $353,258.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $187k to $105k (−44%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 85% · 2020 88% · 2021 93% · 2022 93% · 2023 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Re-Creation USA Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
James Muller
Executive director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $136k → $83k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Re-Creation USA Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Re-Creation USA Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Re-Creation USA Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 69% · 2019 61% · 2020 43% · 2021 52% · 2022 51% · 2023 72% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
67% of Re-Creation USA Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Re-Creation USA Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Re-Creation USA Inc's revenue fell 80% between 2017 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like Re-Creation USA Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Re-Creation USA Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Re-Creation USA Inc?
- Re-Creation USA Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,236,183 to it, the largest being THE BOWLERS TO VETERANS LINK ($480,372). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Re-Creation USA Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,236,183 in grants to Re-Creation USA Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Re-Creation USA Inc?
- THE BOWLERS TO VETERANS LINK is the largest funder on record, with $480,372 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Re-Creation USA Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing