· Public charity
Pga Foundation Inc
As the charitable foundation of the pga of america, the foundation's mission is focused to positively impact the lives of youth, military, and diverse populations by enabling access to pga of america golf professionals, pga sections, and the game of golf.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 55 grants below total $7,766,652 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,022,093 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $255,441 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $393k
- $50k–250k30 grants · $3.8M
- $250k+9 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA | $1,182,711 |
| PGA REACH CAROLINAS | $410,329 |
| SOUTHERN TEXAS PGA FOUNDATION | $338,676 |
| NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PGA FOUNDATION | $318,153 |
| MAPGA JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC | $276,985 |
| FIRST TEE - LOUISVILLE | $275,000 |
| COLORADO PGA FOUNDATION | $274,095 |
| SCPGA FOUNDATION INC | $259,693 |
| GREATER METRO PARKS FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| GEORGIA PGA FOUNDATION | $246,622 |
| NORTHERN TEXAS PGA FOUNDATION | $210,420 |
| PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA MICHIGAN SECTION JR GOLF FUND I | $206,944 |
| NORTH FLORIDA PGA FOUNDATION INC | $192,689 |
| SOUTHWEST SECTION PGA FOUNDATION | $176,593 |
| PACIFIC NORTHWEST SECTION FOUNDATION | $159,074 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $609k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
49 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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
- PRPGA REACH CAROLINAS FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2025 · $938k · revenue +315%
- TMTHE MAPGA FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2025 · $552k · revenue +77%
- SSSOUTHWEST SECTION PGA FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $305k · revenue +49% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- ELEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $426k · revenue +57%
- CFCITYSWING FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $350k · revenue +149%
THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAMgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +115%
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.
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…
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 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…
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…
See schedule o.to grow the game of golf in the southwestern united states. its boundaries include the state of arizona and clark county in southern nevada. there are three chapters within the southwest pga - the southern chapter, metro…
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 wisconsin section will accomplish this mission by enhancing the skills of golf professionals…
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 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 alabama-northwest florida section will accomplish this mission by enhancing the skills of golf…
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 the enjoyment and involvement in the game of golf and to contribute to the growth of the golf professional and the golf industry. the southern texas section will accomplish this mission by enhancing the skills of golf…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Ohio Pga Golf Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Surf Club 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.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
72 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. 72 of the 81 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 PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ASSOC OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PGA REACH CAROLINAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN TEXAS PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MAPGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCPGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA PGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS' FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The New Jersey Golf Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CITYSWING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN TEXAS PGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH FLORIDA PGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ASSN OF AMERICA MICHIGAN SECTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST SECTION PGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Youth Golf Coalition Inc dba The First Tee of Louisivlle ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL SECTION PGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northern Ohio PGA Section Foundation ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEW YORK SECTION PGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PROFESSIONAL GOLF ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CLEARVIEW LEGACY FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION PRESERVATION & RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds PGA REACH PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND PGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OHIO PGA GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA PGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUN COUNTRY GOLF FOUNDATION II ↗
- Who funds WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GULF STATES PGA GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY PGA REACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN SECTION PGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WPGA JUNIOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST PGA JUNIOR GOLF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEW YORK PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS' ASSOCIATION 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: Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · American Junior Golf Foundation Inc · World Golf Foundation Inc · Ncga Foundation · United States Golf Association · Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc · Wasserman Foundation · The Professional Golfers Assoc of America · Wadsworth Golf Charities Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable 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 Pga 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.
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Connecticut Section Pga Golf Foundation 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.