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Colorado Golf Foundation

To provide funding for colorado-based golf organizations and programs that use golf to build important life skills and character, with an emphasis on instilling hard work and self-reliance in young people.

$745k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$743k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$3.8MYouth Development$15kArts & Culture$15kPhilanthropy$8k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$742,717
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION$742,717
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%American Junior Golf Association: $13k → 7%Colorado Section of the PGA: $15k → 3%COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION: $743k → 8%The First Tee of Pikes Peak: $20k → 9%Golf History of Colorado Foundation: $40k → 10%The First Tee of Pikes Peak: $45k → 12%COLORADO SECTION OF THE PGA: $10k → 3%COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION: $576k → 8%The First Tee of Southern Colorado: $10k → 9%GOLF HISTORY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%The First Tee of Denver: $5k → 12%COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION: $501k → 8%The First Tee of Pikes Peak: $5k → 9%The First Tee of Denver: $5k → 12%COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION: $421k → 8%The First Tee of Pikes Peak: $5k → 9%The First Tee of Denver: $5k → 12%Broadmoor Caddie and Leadership Academy: $328k → 8%Pikes Peak Golf Linkers: $5k → 9%THE FIRST TEE OF GREEN VALLEY RANCH: $9k → 12%Colorado Golf Association: $253k → 8%Pikes Peak Golf Linkers: $5k → 9%The First Tee of Green Valley Ranch: $8k → 12%Colorado Golf Association: $133k → 8%Pikes Peak Golf Linkers: $5k → 9%Colorado Open Golf Foundation: $8k → 12%Solich Caddie and Leadership Academy: $123k → 8%The First Tee of Green Valley Ranch: $8k → 12%Solich Caddie and Leadership Academy: $110k → 8%The First Tee of Green Valley Ranch: $8k → 12%Solich Caddie and Leadership Academy: $106k → 8%The First Tee of Green Valley Ranch: $8k → 12%Solich Caddie and Leadership Academy: $99k → 8%Colorado Golf Association: $96k → 8%Colorado Golf Association: $47k → 8%Junior Golf Alliance of Colorado: $40k → 8%Colorado Golf Association: $32k → 8%Junior Golf Alliance of Colorado: $6k → 8%Junior Golf Alliance of Colorado: $6k → 8%Junior Golf Alliance of Colorado: $5k → 8%Junior Golf Alliance of Colorado: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 18% of Colorado Golf Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 97%.

Colorado Golf Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 9 repeat orgs$341k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$3.5M
$341k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+43%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CG
    COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +110%
  • LS
    LIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS
    5× · 2017–2021 · $85k · revenue +51%
  • CO
    COLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $47k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • BC
    Broadmoor Caddie and Leadership Academy
    one grant, 2021 · $328k
  • AJ
    American Junior Golf Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +43%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Indianapolis Junior Golf Foundation
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2
Colorado Womens Golf Association

None

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3
Carolinas Golf Association

The cga is a non-profit service organization that was formed in 1909 to conduct championships and tournaments for amateur golfers in north and south carolina, administer the usga handicap system in the carolinas, and support its membership…

Recreation & Sports
4
South Carolina Junior Golf Association

To promote, preserve, and serve the game of junior golf

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5
Golf Association of Philadelphia Foundation
Recreation & Sports
6
South Carolina Golf Association

To preserve, promote, and serve the game of golf

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7
Girls Golf Club of Northern Colorado

LPGA-USGA Girls Golf is a developmental junior golf program Opportunity for girls and youth to make lasting friendship, gain self confidence learn to compete and HAVE FUN. Fundraising for all Youth Sports

Recreation & Sports
8
Columbus District Golf Association

The primary moving force behind the promotion and betterment of golf in central ohio

Recreation & Sports
9
Professional Golfers Association of Carolinas Pga Section

Promote the enjoyment and involvement in the game of golf within the carolinas and to contribute to its growth by providing services to golf professionals and the golf industry within the carolinas.

Recreation & Sports
10
Hawaii State Junior Golf Association in

Promote golf for hawaii juniors, including enhancing the enjoyment of it, and preserving the tradition and integrity of the game.

Recreation & Sports
11
Amateur Golf Alliance

Our mission is to provide the championship with its playability and unique hole designs in the dfw area. we also offer the players golf courses to support and promote amateur golfers with more opportunities to compete at national and…

Recreation & Sports
12
All Abilities Golf Academy
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Open Golf Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Denver Junior Golf. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION: $2,800,069 · Recreation & SportsCOLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION+2 more: $98,400 · Recreation & SportsSolich Caddie and Leadership Academy: $438,483 · OtherSolich Caddie and Leaders…Broadmoor Caddie and Leadership Academy: $328,000 · OtherBroadmoor Caddie and Lead…JUNIOR GOLF ALLIANCE OF COLORADO: $61,500 · OtherJUNIOR GOLF ALLIANCE OF C…+2 more: $40,000 · OtherGOLF HISTORY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $54,922 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $46,500 · PhilanthropyDENVER JUNIOR GOLF: $15,000 · Youth Development
Recreation & Sports$2,898,469Other$867,983Arts & Culture$54,922Philanthropy$46,500Youth Development$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION: $2,800,069 over 9y, 11% of budgetLIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $85,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetJUNIOR GOLF ALLIANCE OF COLORADO: $61,500 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetGOLF HISTORY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $54,922 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetCOLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $46,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCOLORADO SECTION OF THE PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDENVER JUNIOR GOLF: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Junior Golf Association Inc: $13,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Colorado Golf Associa…El Pomar FoundationColorado Gives Founda…National Philanthropi…Amazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Golf AssociationCO13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Golf Association · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Colorado Golf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colorado Golf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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