· Public charity
Ladies Professional Golf Association
To promote worldwide interest in the game of women's professional golf.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $1,228,137 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,258,137 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LPGA FOUNDATION | $1,076,137 |
| AMERICAN JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCATION | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL GOLF FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CITYSWING FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FAIRWAYS TO LEADERSHIP | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF VOLUSIA-FLAGLER COUNTIES | $10,000 |
| OUR MILITARY KIDS | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL LINKS TRUST | $10,000 |
| WAKE-ROBIN GOLF CLUB | $10,000 |
| HISPANIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HISPANIC ASSOCIATION ON CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY | $7,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +233% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TLTHE LPGA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $6.1M · revenue +93% · 25% of their budget
- ETE THOMAS ARINGTON FAMILY FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2021 · $108k · revenue +298%
- FTFairways to Leadership Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +278%
Funded once
- CLCLEARVIEW LEGACY FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION PRESERVATION & RESEARCHgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $153k · revenue +55%
- DTDanberry Treasure Chestone grant, 2021 · $113k · revenue -8%
- EWEXECUTIVE WOMEN'S GOLF ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -17%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
American Golf Foundation is dedicated to the enhancement and enrichment of communities by promoting the enjoyment of the game of golf and its ideals through charity, education and community service.
To promote worldwide interest in the game of women's professional golf. primary activities include sanctioning and administering golf tournaments and providing education and certification opportunities for individuals in the golf industry.
To foster national or international amateur golf competition.
The mission of the scga junior golf foundation is to develop an inclusive golf community that enables kids to thrive on and beyond the course. we believe that every kid in southern california, no matter their circumstance, should have the…
The foundation is dedicated to fulfilling the usga's mission to champion and advance the game of golf, everywhere it is played. its purpose is soley charitable, scientific, and educational within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the…
To provide positive opportunities, enjoyment, and education to juniors in the game of golf. the mission will be accomplished through tournaments, clinics, camps, academies, scholarships, and grants.
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…
The Bluegrass Golf Foundation, Inc. ("Foundation") promotes and advances the game of golf as an amateur sport through tournaments and special events. Education about options and expectations for intercollegiate competition is provided…
The principal mission of pga tour, inc. is to promote the sport of professional golf through sanctioning and administering golf tournaments and promoting the common interests of touring golf professionals. this is accomplished by providing…
To promote the enjoyment and involvement in the game of golf and to contribute to the growth of the golf professional and the golf industry. the south florida section will accomplish this mission by enhancing the skills of golf…
See schedule oto promote the enjoyment and involvement in the game of golf and to contribute to the growth of the golf professional and the golf industry. the aloha section will accomplish this mission by enhancing the skills of golf…
To promote and expand community awareness of the game of golf in texas through programs serving junior golfers and the community at large.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Executive Women's Golf Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Proactive Health Labs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 69% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE LPGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA'S NATURAL GROWERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLEARVIEW LEGACY FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION PRESERVATION & RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Danberry Treasure Chest ↗
- Who funds E THOMAS ARINGTON FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF VOLUSIA-FLAGLER COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds NGF Education Inc ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds EXECUTIVE WOMEN'S GOLF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Fairways to Leadership Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HAWAII CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds National Golf Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds POTTSTOWN REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FKA POTTSTOWN AREA HEALTH AND WELLNESS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES ARTS FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Hispanic Heritage Foundation ↗
- Who funds OUR MILITARY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds PROACTIVE HEALTH LABS ↗
- Who funds CITYSWING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LINKS TRUST ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC ASSOCIATION ON CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY ↗
- Who funds BLACK GIRLS GOLF FOUNDATION FOR DIVERSITY & INCLUSION INC ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Pga Tour Inc · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Ladies Professional Golf Association 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Way of Volusia-Flagler Counties Inc — 2% of income from government
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.