· Public charity
Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc
To impact the lives of young people by providing educational programs that build character and instill life-enhancing values through the game of golf.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 114 grants below total $9,147,748 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $12,080,158 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,932,410 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 $10k9 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k55 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k43 grants · $4.3M
- $250k+7 grants · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Twin Cities Junior Golf Program | $675,000 |
| First Tee New York Inc | $600,500 |
| Houston Golf Association Youth Program | $547,000 |
| Children's Golf FoundationInc | $508,110 |
| First Tee of Chicago Foundation | $318,430 |
| FORE LA Kids Inc | $308,441 |
| Indiana Golf Foundation Inc | $252,000 |
| Richmond First Tee | $213,433 |
| Seattle Jr Golf Foundation | $199,142 |
| First Tee of Atlanta Inc | $196,370 |
| Tennessee Golf Foundation | $192,674 |
| Future Talent of Silicon Valley | $182,000 |
| Golf Fore Life Skills | $171,250 |
| The First Tee of Greater Philadelphia Inc | $168,900 |
| The First Tee of Washington DC | $166,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
137 repeat relationships — 106 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 7 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k 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
- TCTWIN CITIES JUNIOR GOLF PROGRAM5× · 2020–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +641% · 78% of their budget
- HGHouston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Houston4× · 2021–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +55% · 45% of their budget
- CGCHILDREN'S GOLF FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +53% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- HGHouston Golf Association Incone grant, 2020 · $139k · revenue -11% · 78% of their budget
- CGConnecticut Golf Foundationone grant, 2022 · $115k
- NWNew Wading River Country Club LLCone grant, 2020 · $36k
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.
Its mission is to impact the lives of young people around the world by creating affordable and accessible golf facilities to primarily serve those who have not previously had exposure to the game and its positive values. our goal is to…
The organization teaches valuable lessons to over 300 children each year including the importance of maintaining a positive attitude, making positive decisions, and defining and setting goals for everyday life by using life skills…
Provide developmental opportunities for junior golfers to play and learn the game of golf. activities include forming community based junior golf teams to train and compete together as well as hosting instructional clinics.
To provide positive opportunities, enjoyment, and education to juniors in the game of golf. the mission will be accomplished through tournaments, clinics, camps, academies, scholarships, and grants.
Our mission is to transform junior golf by providing a platform for junior players to gain access to exceptional high school caddies that provide youth mentorship for the future of the game.
to provide a pipeline to academic excell
Youth development program through the game of golf
The southern california pga foundation's mission is to provide all those who might benefit, especially youth from all communities, with opportunities to acquire sustainable life skills and values obtained through the game of golf.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Golf of Nwa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Young Men's Christian Association of the Virginia Peninsulas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
155 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.
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 TWIN CITIES JUNIOR GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE ↗
- Who funds TEE OFF FORE LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS JR GOLF AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST JUNIOR GOLF TOUR INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NAPLES/COLLIER ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON DC LANGSTON GOLF COURSE ↗
- Who funds Good Golfers Better People of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND FIRST TEE ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds INDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Future Talent of Silicon Valley ↗
- Who funds FORE LA KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE CITIZENS FOUNDATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds GOLF FORE LIFE SKILLS THE FIRST TEE OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MORTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS BUILDING CHARACTER INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Golf Foundation of the Carolinas ↗
- Who funds RISING LEADERS OF NORTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS GOLF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO DEVELOPMENT FORE YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND FOUNDATION TO SUPPORT YOUTH SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT GOLF FOUNDATION INC THE FIRST TEE OF CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Puerto Rico Youth Development Foundation ↗
- Who funds TAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DESERT RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LONG GAME YOUTH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds PRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GOLF FORE FUN INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE ↗
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: World Golf Foundation Inc · Pga Tour Inc · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · American Junior Golf Foundation Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · The Lpga Foundation · Round It Up America Inc · The George W Bush Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc · Share Our Strength · Good Sports Inc · Save the Music 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 Tour First Tee 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Tampa Metropolitan Area Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Urban Youth Golf Program Assoc — 0% of income from government
- Children's Golf Foundation 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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