· Public charity
Minnesota Section Pga Foundation
To support junior golfers and provide financial assistance for worthy recipients to attend college.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $133,494 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $263,551 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $130,057 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 $10k5 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNESOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION | $66,305 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC | $19,805 |
| CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS | $15,714 |
| PURPLE HAWK JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION | $9,449 |
| BARRIER FREE GOLF INC | $7,000 |
| INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT #271 | $5,221 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LEWIS SPORTS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 92% 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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 1 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- MGMINNESOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $369k · revenue +43%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $83k · revenue +60%
- MPMINNEAPOLIS PARK AND RECREATION BOARD3× · 2022–2024 · $63k
Funded once
- MGMINNESOTA GOLF CHARITY EVENTSone grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue -96% · 100% of their budget
- COCITY OF MINNEAPOLIS2× · 2019–2020 · $18k
- PIPROACT INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -1%
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.
Raise funds for handicap people to participate in sports activities
Raise funds for the sole purpose of donating all proceeds to the special olympics of minnesota. this will be done through an annual golf tournament, 100% of all proceeds to be donated to the special olympics of minnesota.
Use golf to do good. regardless of background or ability, every individual should have access to the life-changing benefits of the greatest game in the world. we want to share golf with everyone. the foundation uses golf to change lives.…
The minnesota paralyzed veterans of america (mnpva) a minnesota nonprofit organization, is an officially recognized paralyzed veterans of america chapter. mnpva assists veterans with spinal cord injuries or spinal cord diseases, such as ms…
Promotion of Minnesota as a Golf Destination. The member courses are a collection of must play courses located across the state.
The foundation is dedicated to the development of amateur sports by providing exceptional experiences at the national sports center for over four million people annually resulting in 85+ million dollars of tourism economic impact.
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 minnesota section will accomplish this mission by enhancing the skills of golf professionals…
Girls fastpitch softball league
Accessible Golf Foundation is dedicated to empowering adaptive golfers by providing financial assistance for essential equipment and resources. We serve individuals who share a passion for golf, while fostering an inclusive community…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Golf Charity Events and the most unlike its peers is Impact Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 20 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 MINNESOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA GOLF CHARITY EVENTS ↗
- Who funds BARRIER FREE GOLF INC ↗
- Who funds PROACT INC ↗
- Who funds Living Well Disability Services ↗
- Who funds THE ARC MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds Impact Foundation ↗
- Who funds Fargo Park District Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lewis Sports Foundation ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · 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 Minnesota Section Pga 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.
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.