· Public charity
Minnesota Section Pga Foundation
To support junior golfers and provide financial assistance for worthy recipients to attend college.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| LEWIS SPORTS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +43% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MGMINNESOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $369k · revenue +43%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $83k · revenue +94%
- 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%
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.
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.
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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…
Promotion of Minnesota as a Golf Destination. The member courses are a collection of must play courses located across the state.
Provides jobs to individuals with disabilities
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.
Our mission is to enhance the quality of life of children who have experienced abuse or neglect, strengthen families and prevent childhood maltreatment, by providing timely crucial support that meets the basic needs of local families and…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 20 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 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 ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Minnesota Section Pga Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Minnesota Section Pga Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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