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Fownes Foundation

Dedicated to the restoration, preservation, and commemoration of nationally recognized, historically significant golf sites in the united states.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Recreation & Sports$2.3MYouth Development$200kEducation$50kPublic Benefit$10k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
$2,000,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OAKMONT COUNTRY CLUB$2,000,000
THE FIRST TEE OF PITTSBURGH$50,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COBBS CREEK RESTORATION & COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 7%THE FIRST TEE OF PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%THE FOXBURG GOLF PRESEERVATION INC: $20k → 14%GOLF WRITERS ASSOCIAION OF AMERICA: $10k → 16%TROOPS FIRST FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $10k → 11%ALLEGHENY COUNTRY CLUB: $25k → 11%OAKMONT COUNTRY CLUB: $2.0M → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Crooked Stick Golf Club

Operation of a golf course

2
Bakersfield Country Club

Membership - country club.bakersfield country club is a private family club, providing social and recreational activities for the benefit of its members and their guests. the club is committed to maintain its reputation for excellence and…

3
Foxburg Country Club Inc

To provide a high quality country club which includes a premier USGA Member Golf Course and Club house with Restaurant Facilities

Recreation & Sports
4
Butte Creek Country Club

To embrace the rules of golf & the u.s. golf association handicap system; to foster interest and provide facilities primarily for the game of golf; to provide high quality facilities, programs, and service to our members.

5
Clarinda Country Club

Membership golf course

6
Wilmington Country Club

Each of the enumerated activities is substantially related and significantly contributes to the social interaction and camaraderie of the entire membership of the organization.

7
Congressional Country Club Inc

Congressional country club is a full amenity private club committed to providing its members with access to professional level championship quality golf courses, tennis courts, swimming pools and fitness facilities. the club also provides…

8
The Lakewood Country Club

Private country club

9
Bellerive Country Club

Bellerive is a social club that operates golf, swimming, racquets, bocce and clubhouse facilities exclusively for its members and guests.

10
Conway Farms Golf Club Inc
Recreation & Sports
11
Western Pennsylvania Golf Association

The western pennsylvania golf association's purpose is to promote and advance interest in the true spirit of the game of golf through western pennsylvania.

12
Mountain Ridge Country Club

To provide facilities to play golf and other recreational activities and to maintain a clubhouse with dining facilities for the benefit of its members and their guests.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oakmont Country Club and the most unlike its peers is Golf Writers Association of America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OAKMONT COUNTRY CLUB — $2,000,000 · OtherOAKMONT COUNTRY CLUBLONGUE VUE CLUB — $100,000 · Other+2 more — $60,000 · OtherCR JRS CHIP — $250,000 · EducationCR JRS CHIPBucknell University — $25,000 · EducationBucknell Uni…THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Foxburg Golf Preservation Inc — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsTROOPS FIRST FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $10,000 · Public Benefit
Other$2,160,000Education$275,000Recreation & Sports$70,000Public Benefit$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOAKMONT COUNTRY CLUB — $2,000,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCR JRS CHIP — $250,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetLONGUE VUE CLUB — $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALLEGHENY COUNTRY CLUB — $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBucknell University — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foxburg Golf Preservation Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTROOPS FIRST FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGOLF WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA — $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Fownes Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report 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, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Fownes Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fownes Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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