· Private foundation
Masters Tournament Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $708k
- $250k+3 grants · $63M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASTERS TOURNAMENT CHARITIES INC | $62,019,503 |
| PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC | $500,000 |
| FIRST TEE OF AUGUSTA | $400,000 |
| PGA FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| THE LPGA FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| USGA | $200,000 |
| CAF AMERICA | $108,000 |
| NATIONAL GOLF FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE GEORGIA GOLF & ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| THE ENVIRONMENTAL INSTITUTE FOR GOLF | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 47% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +38% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550k 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
- FAFORE AUGUSTA FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +192% · 44% of their budget
- BJBobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $1.0M · revenue +3%
- TLTHE LPGA FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2024 · $600k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- PTPGA TOUR INCone grant, 2020 · $3.0M · revenue -34%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2.0M
- PCPAINE COLLEGE-LEE ELDER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $1.2M
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.
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…
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.
Provide educational opportunities for employees, or children of employees, of gsga member clubs, through the yates scholarship program and for young people who are in the study of turfgrass and agronomy at the university of georgia and…
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…
To provide opportunities for women to learn, play and enjoy the game of golf through chapter activities, educational programs, golf and networking events, and leadership development.
To promote the playing and advancement of the royal and ancient game of golf in texas.
To foster national or international amateur golf competition.
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…
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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.
To promote the enjoyment & involvement in the game of golf and to contribute to the growth of the golf professional and the golf industry. the georgia section will accomplish this mission by enhancing the skills of the golf professionals…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pga Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Historic Oakland Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 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 PGA TOUR INC ↗
- Who funds FORE AUGUSTA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE LPGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PGA TOUR CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds E4E RELIEF LLC ↗
- Who funds GCSAA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Georgia Golf Environmental Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Historic Oakland Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds National Golf Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION 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 · United States Golf Association · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Masters Tournament Foundation Inc 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.
- Pga Tour Inc — 0% 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.
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