· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE GEORGIA GOLF & ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL GOLF FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE ENVIRONMENTAL INSTITUTE FOR GOLF | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 30 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PGA 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 National Golf Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Historic Oakland Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Masters Tournament Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Masters Tournament Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pga Tour Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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