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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.

$12M
Granted FY2024still arriving
114
Grants FY2024still arriving
42
States reached
$675k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$28MYouth Development$14MPhilanthropy$3.1MEducation$2.1MHuman Services$505kArts & Culture$217kHealth$33kPublic Benefit$11k
02FY2024 · 114 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 114 grants below total $9,147,748, the rows itemized in this filing. The $12,080,158 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,932,410 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
$42,000
Median grant
42
States reached
$125M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Hogans Junior Golf Heroes Foundation: $43k → 12%Golf Fore Life Skills: $316k → 10%Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA Inc: $116k → 13%YMCA of South Hampton Roads: $37k → 9%Peninsula Metro YMCA: $18k → 17%Hogans Junior Golf Heroes Foundation: $16k → 12%Golf Fore Life Skills: $171k → 10%Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA Inc: $81k → 13%Peninsula Metro YMCA: $10k → 17%Hogans Junior Golf Heroes Foundation: $11k → 12%Golf Fore Life Skills: $125k → 10%Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA Inc: $75k → 13%Young Men's Christian Association of the Virginia: $6k → 17%Hogans Junior Golf Heroes Foundation: $5k → 12%Golf Fore Life Skills: $72k → 10%Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA Inc: $49k → 13%Golf Fore Life Skills: $21k → 10%Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA Inc: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$45M · 137 repeat orgs$599k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against -9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

137
10

Total granted

$45M
$413k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
-9%

Still filing today

95%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TC
    TWIN CITIES JUNIOR GOLF PROGRAM
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +641% · 78% of their budget
  • HG
    Houston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Houston
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +55% · 45% of their budget
  • CG
    CHILDREN'S GOLF FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +53% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

  • HG
    Houston Golf Association Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $139k · revenue -11% · 78% of their budget
  • CG
    Connecticut Golf Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $115k
  • NW
    New Wading River Country Club LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $36k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Indianapolis Junior Golf Foundation
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2
First Tee of Miami-Dade Foundation Inc

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…

Youth Development
3
The Watson Youth Golf Foundation
Recreation & Sports
4
Mid-South Junior Golf Association

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…

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5
Junior Cup Golf

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.

Recreation & Sports
6
All Abilities Golf Academy
Recreation & Sports
7
Wpga Junior Foundation Inc

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.

Recreation & Sports
8
Par 3 Foundation Inc
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9
Sl Gee Ll Foundation Inc

to provide a pipeline to academic excell

Recreation & Sports
10
Caddies for Kids

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.

Recreation & Sports
11
Marion County Junior Golf Inc

Youth development program through the game of golf

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12
Scpga Foundation Inc

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Golf of Nwa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Desert Recreation Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

155 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

25
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
65
Early backer (in before they grew)
152/155
Grantees still filing
120/155
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TWIN CITIES JUNIOR GOLF PROGRAM: $3,590,306 · Recreation & SportsTWIN CITIES JUNIOR GOLF PROGRAMTEE OFF FORE LIFE INC: $2,257,000 · Recreation & SportsTEE OFF FORE LIFE INCHouston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Houston: $2,251,662 · Recreation & SportsHouston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Hou…FORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $1,395,124 · Recreation & SportsGULF COAST JUNIOR GOLF TOUR INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NAPLES/COLLIER: $1,135,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE FIRST TEE OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION: $1,134,907 · Recreation & SportsTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON DC LANGSTON GOLF COURSE: $1,042,100 · Recreation & SportsGood Golfers Better People of Metro Atlanta Inc: $1,004,220 · Recreation & Sports+83 more: $15,961,315 · Recreation & Sports+83 moreSOUTH DAKOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION: $993,895 · Youth DevelopmentSOUTH DAKOTA G…RICHMOND FIRST TEE: $982,754 · Youth DevelopmentRICHMOND FIRST…FORE LA KIDS INC: $830,629 · Youth DevelopmentFORE LA KIDS I…THE CONNECTICUT GOLF FOUNDATION INC THE FIRST TEE OF CONNECTICUT: $385,350 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CONNECTICU…Puerto Rico Youth Development Foundation: $328,500 · Youth DevelopmentPuerto Rico Yo…ATHENS FORE KIDS INC: $280,000 · Youth DevelopmentConquistadores Youth Golf Fund: $252,809 · Youth DevelopmentDENVER JUNIOR GOLF: $252,224 · Youth Development+17 more: $1,603,682 · Youth Development+17 moreSAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE: $2,981,140 · PhilanthropySAN FRANC…SAN ANTONIO DEVELOPMENT FORE YOUTH INC: $402,878 · PhilanthropySAN ANTON…COLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $313,373 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO …+3 more: $152,194 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $2,033,669 · OtherCHILDREN'…MASSACHUSETTS GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $410,682 · OtherMASSACHUS…Detroit Youth Golf Program L3C: $260,312 · OtherDetroit Y…PINEY WOODS GOLF YOUTH AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $210,485 · OtherDenver Jr Golf: $171,750 · OtherDESERT RECREATION FOUNDATION: $311,500 · OtherDESERT RE…YOUTH DEVELOPMENT THROUGH SPORT INC THE FIRST TEE OF SARASOTA MANATEE: $164,910 · Other+14 more: $500,972 · Other+14 moreNORTH TEXAS JR GOLF AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,324,895 · EducationCR JRS CHIP: $255,250 · EducationTYLER JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION: $144,836 · Education+2 more: $66,500 · EducationGOLF FORE LIFE SKILLS THE FIRST TEE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $704,800 · Human ServicesTAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $325,250 · Human ServicesHOGANS JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION: $73,890 · Human Services+2 more: $70,610 · Human ServicesTENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION: $600,122 · Arts & CultureFORE AUGUSTA FOUNDATION INC: $217,166 · Arts & Culture
Recreation & Sports$29,772,134Youth Development$5,909,843Philanthropy$3,849,585Other$4,064,280Education$1,791,481Human Services$1,174,550Arts & Culture$817,288

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTWIN CITIES JUNIOR GOLF PROGRAM: $3,590,306 over 5y, 78% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE: $2,981,140 over 5y, 40% of budgetTEE OFF FORE LIFE INC: $2,257,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetHouston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Houston: $2,251,662 over 4y, 45% of budgetCHILDREN'S GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $2,033,669 over 5y, 31% of budgetFORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $1,395,124 over 5y, 27% of budgetNORTH TEXAS JR GOLF AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,324,895 over 5y, 34% of budgetGULF COAST JUNIOR GOLF TOUR INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NAPLES/COLLIER: $1,135,500 over 5y, 48% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION: $1,134,907 over 5y, 21% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON DC LANGSTON GOLF COURSE: $1,042,100 over 5y, 21% of budgetGood Golfers Better People of Metro Atlanta Inc: $1,004,220 over 5y, 16% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION: $993,895 over 4y, 46% of budgetRICHMOND FIRST TEE: $982,754 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX: $907,593 over 5y, 24% of budgetINDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $864,490 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetFuture Talent of Silicon Valley: $839,750 over 5y, 16% of budgetFORE LA KIDS INC: $830,629 over 3y, 95% of budgetFUTURE CITIZENS FOUNDATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF MONTEREY COUNTY: $791,306 over 5y, 15% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC: $735,350 over 5y, 10% of budgetGOLF FORE LIFE SKILLS THE FIRST TEE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $704,800 over 5y, 35% of budgetSEATTLE JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION: $630,052 over 5y, 25% of budgetTENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION: $600,122 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetTHE MORTON FOUNDATION: $580,640 over 5y, 34% of budgetKIDS BUILDING CHARACTER INC: $547,659 over 5y, 19% of budgetYouth Golf Foundation of the Carolinas: $469,688 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetRISING LEADERS OF NORTH FLORIDA INC: $436,950 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetNEW JERSEY YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $432,750 over 5y, 33% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $410,682 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSAN ANTONIO DEVELOPMENT FORE YOUTH INC: $402,878 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetHILTON HEAD ISLAND FOUNDATION TO SUPPORT YOUTH SPORTS INC: $401,890 over 5y, 37% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT GOLF FOUNDATION INC THE FIRST TEE OF CONNECTICUT: $385,350 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION: $352,550 over 3y, 22% of budgetPuerto Rico Youth Development Foundation: $328,500 over 4y, 45% of budgetTAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $325,250 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $313,373 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetDESERT RECREATION FOUNDATION: $311,500 over 3y, 38% of budgetLONG GAME YOUTH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $310,268 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetPRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC: $308,700 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetGOLF FORE FUN INC: $295,808 over 5y, 12% of budgetTRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE: $294,150 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetYOUTH DEVELOPMENT CORP OF SW OHIO: $287,631 over 5y, 29% of budgetATHENS FORE KIDS INC: $280,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetTHE CAROL S PETREA YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $279,500 over 5y, 17% of budgetHAWAII STATE JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION IN: $272,720 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetWEST TEXAS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $265,099 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetCR JRS CHIP: $255,250 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetConquistadores Youth Golf Fund: $252,809 over 5y, 14% of budgetDENVER JUNIOR GOLF: $252,224 over 3y, 7.3% of budget
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.

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.

World Golf Foundation…Pga Tour IncDick's Sporting Goods…American Junior Golf …GenYOUTH IncorporatedThe Lpga FoundationRound It Up America I…The George W Bush Fou…Project Lead the Way …Share Our StrengthGood Sports IncSave the Music Founda…
World Golf Foundation IncFL251.9× affinity133 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 155 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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