How much does Carolinas Golf Foundation give?

Carolinas Golf Foundation reported 11 itemized grants totaling $117,403, out of $251,901 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Carolinas Golf Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (90%), Youth Development (6%), Education (2%).

Who are Carolinas Golf Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Sandhills Youth Development Inc ($62k), Swingpals Inc ($57k), South Carolina Junior Golf Association ($45k).

Does Carolinas Golf Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Carolinas Golf Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include World Golf Foundation Inc, Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc, Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation.

Where is Carolinas Golf Foundation based?

Carolinas Golf Foundation is based in NC.

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North Carolina · Public charity

Carolinas Golf Foundation

The CAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION was formed by the carolinas golf association in 1977 to provide scholarships and funding for a variety of carolinas-based golf initiatives.

$252k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 11
Itemized grants FY2025: 10
Organizations funded FY2024: 20%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $117k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $22,753
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 20; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $1.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Carolinas Golf Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	11	$117k	0%
FY2024	10	$87k	20%
FY2023	20	$128k	50%
FY2022	10	$79k	10%
FY2021	8	$59k	25%
FY2020	13	$76k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$385kYouth Development$24kEducation$10kHealth$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Sandhills Youth Development Inc	$62,169	7	3%
Swingpals Inc	$57,000	5	3%
South Carolina Junior Golf Association	$45,000	8	1%
Golf Fore Fun Inc	$42,000	4	2%
Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina	$36,000	5	2%
First Tee of Coastal Carolinas	$28,000	3	n/a
Carolinas Golf Course Superintendents As	$27,753	2	0%
Youth Golf Foundation of the Carolinas	$27,000	5	1%
Atlanta Downtown Neighborhood Association Inc	$24,000	4	n/a
Greater Wilmington Youth Initiative Inc	$23,000	3	1%

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All grantees of Carolinas Golf Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Sandhills Youth Development Inc	$62,169	7	3%
Swingpals Inc	$57,000	5	3%
South Carolina Junior Golf Association	$45,000	8	1%
Golf Fore Fun Inc	$42,000	4	2%
Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina	$36,000	5	2%
First Tee of Coastal Carolinas	$28,000	3	n/a
Carolinas Golf Course Superintendents As	$27,753	2	0%
Youth Golf Foundation of the Carolinas	$27,000	5	1%
Atlanta Downtown Neighborhood Association Inc	$24,000	4	n/a
Greater Wilmington Youth Initiative Inc	$23,000	3	1%
The Carol S Petrea Youth Golf Foundation Inc	$20,000	2	2%
Triangle Women in Golf Foundation Inc	$18,950	3	n/a
Upstate Carolina Adaptive Golf	$17,500	2	2%
Womens South Carolina Golf Association	$16,500	3	1%
A Perfect Swing Foundation Inc	$12,500	2	n/a
WSCGA Vicki Hillen JGF	$12,000	4	23%
Triangle Golf Foundation Inc Dba the First Tee of the Triangle	$12,000	2	1%
Aiken Junior Golf Foundation DBA FIRST TEE OF AIKEN SC	$10,000	2	2%
The North Carolina Agricultural Foundation Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Carolinas Golf Association	$5,000	1	0%
Daniel Island Club Employee Fund	$5,000	1	8%
Pinehurst Resort	$5,000	1	n/a
Clemson University Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Pga Reach Carolinas Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Clemson University	$5,000	1	n/a
Kiawah Island Community Association Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Project Golf	$5,000	1	1%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Carolinas Golf Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

World Golf Foundation IncFL28.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: World Golf Foundation Inc · Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · Heritage Classic Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Carolinas Golf Foundation

How much does Carolinas Golf Foundation give?: Carolinas Golf Foundation reported 11 itemized grants totaling $117,403, out of $251,901 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Carolinas Golf Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (90%), Youth Development (6%), Education (2%).
Who are Carolinas Golf Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Sandhills Youth Development Inc ($62k), Swingpals Inc ($57k), South Carolina Junior Golf Association ($45k).
Does Carolinas Golf Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Carolinas Golf Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include World Golf Foundation Inc, Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc, Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation.
Where is Carolinas Golf Foundation based?: Carolinas Golf Foundation is based in NC.