Florida · Nonprofit
SARASOTA LAWN BOWLING CLUB INC
SARASOTA LAWN BOWLING CLUB INC (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,376 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($44,167). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $56k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $77k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Sarasota Lawn Bowling Club Inc does
Mission
The Sarasota Lawn Bowling Club, Inc. (SLBC) welcomes lawn bowlers of all skill levels (beginner to expert) who live in Sarasota full time or visit Sarasota from all over the world during our Winter months. We especially welcome new lawn bowlers and provide formal beginner training as well as ongoing technique instruction. We offer informal 'jitneys" (i.e. games) for players of all skill levels, club tournament opportunities, and open tournament opportunities which include teams from the Southern Gulf Coast region of Florida. Modern Lawn Bowling began in the 1830's in England, but it is truly a 21st century sport. Women compete equally with men, seniors compete equally with younger bowlers, bowlers of different skill levels can play together in the same game at the same time, and handicapped players can play at competitive levels.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
INTRODUCING THE SPORT TO NEW BOWLERS. In 2025 we conducted 7 formal training classes for beginners, introducing the sport to almost 100 new people (average class size 14). We partnered with Suncoast Technical College, offering our classes through their Adult & Community Enrichment program (ACE), and share in the fees received. We conduct these classes with volunteer experienced members and certified coaches, resulting in zero cost to the Club. In 2025 we had 30 students join as full time members.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOur largest expense is MAINTAINING OUR GREEN FOR YEAR-ROUND PLAY. We paid an outside greenskeeper for consultation and heavy maintenance items like mowing, rolling, fertilizer, irrigation, etc., but also utilize volunteer members year-round to help with maintenance of the green and the surrounding areas. Last year 10-20 volunteer members donated picnic tables, plants, benches, and umbrellas to create newly defined picnic and garden areas where we can have lunches after bowling, board meetings and social events. We offer informal 'jitneys" (games) during the day M, W, F, Sat. as well as Tu and Th evening bowling. We ended the year with 63 full time members and have approximately 10 bowlers who consistently pay a daily rate when they choose to play.
$49,435 spent97% of program spendingWith Bowls USA grant money received of $770, we purchased 2 new sets of smaller bowls for new female students with smaller hands at a cost of $1,311. Each set includes 4 bowls. This cost included an unexpected customs/tariff charge of $279. All members can bowl with any set of bowls, but 20% of members are assumed to use these smaller bowls.
$1,311 spentof which $770 as grants3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $50,746.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $42k to $21k (−50%).
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.
69% of SARASOTA LAWN BOWLING CLUB INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $8k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 SARASOTA LAWN BOWLING CLUB 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
SARASOTA LAWN BOWLING CLUB INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SARASOTA LAWN BOWLING CLUB INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
74% of SARASOTA LAWN BOWLING CLUB INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $20k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SARASOTA LAWN BOWLING CLUB INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SARASOTA LAWN BOWLING CLUB INC?
- SARASOTA LAWN BOWLING CLUB INC (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,376 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($44,167). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SARASOTA LAWN BOWLING CLUB INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $77,376 in grants to SARASOTA LAWN BOWLING CLUB INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SARASOTA LAWN BOWLING CLUB INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC is the largest funder on record, with $44,167 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SARASOTA LAWN BOWLING CLUB INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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