Virginia · Nonprofit
THE BOWLERS TO VETERANS LINK
THE BOWLERS TO VETERANS LINK (Virginia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $636,317 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN STATE USBC INC ($131,120). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $636k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What The Bowlers to Veterans Link does
Mission
The Bowlers to Veterans Link provides recreational and therapeutic programs and services for active duty and veterans to boost morale and speed recuperation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Bvl provides grants to recreational therapy departments at va medical centers and state homes nationwide to advance physical, mental, and emotional well-being through arts and craft supplies, pet therapy activities, sports, games, dance and movement, drama, music, and community outings.
$1,392,973 spentof which $1,260,517 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,392,973.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.7M to $2.2M (+24%).
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: 2017 7% · 2018 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 4% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Nancy Schenk
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $48k → $58k.
8 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $58k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Bowling Proprietors Association of America Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE BOWLERS TO VETERANS LINK raised.
From the IRS filings of THE BOWLERS TO VETERANS LINK’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
THE BOWLERS TO VETERANS LINK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
92% 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 THE BOWLERS TO VETERANS LINK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 71% · 2019 46% · 2020 41% · 2021 73% · 2022 87% · 2023 59% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of THE BOWLERS TO VETERANS LINK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
THE BOWLERS TO VETERANS LINK draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $182k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like THE BOWLERS TO VETERANS LINK
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 10 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE BOWLERS TO VETERANS LINK?
- THE BOWLERS TO VETERANS LINK (Virginia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $636,317 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN STATE USBC INC ($131,120). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BOWLERS TO VETERANS LINK have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $636,317 in grants to THE BOWLERS TO VETERANS LINK, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BOWLERS TO VETERANS LINK?
- MICHIGAN STATE USBC INC is the largest funder on record, with $131,120 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BOWLERS TO VETERANS LINK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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