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Philip & Amy Mickelson Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of PHILIP & AMY MICKELSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUNKERS IN BAGHDAD | $250,000 |
| BUNKERS IN BAGHDAD | $250,000 |
| PRO KIDS FIRST TEE SAN DIEGO | $25,000 |
| SAN DIEGO COUNTY JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Philip & Amy Mickelson Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k 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
- PKPRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC5× · 2019–2025 · $450k · revenue +53%
- AJAmerican Junior Golf Association Inc3× · 2018–2020 · $225k · revenue +37%
- PRPACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL2× · 2019–2021 · $200k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- JSJACKSON STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $600k
- SASUN ANGEL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $400k · revenue -19%
- SOSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +224%
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.
The mission of the scga junior golf foundation is to develop an inclusive golf community that enables kids to thrive on and beyond the course. we believe that every kid in southern california, no matter their circumstance, should have the…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
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.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To positvely impact the lives of young people, including those with special needs and veterans by providing educational programs that build character, instill life enhancing values and promote healthy choices through the game of golf.
To foster national or international amateur golf competition.
Southern california golf association's mission is to promote the game of golf.
Our mission is to preserve the integrity of college golf, recognizing that our student-athletes not only excel in the sport but also become significant contributors to society. by hosting exceptional ncaa di golf championships, we honor…
Nsga supports its members' efforts to grow their business and advocates on their behalf by offering the following: 1) resources for recruiting, training, and development; 2) valuable publications & communications; 3) education and…
To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
Provide individuals access to the game of golf and contributions to programs and organizations that help to grow the game.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 33 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 BUNKERS IN BAGHDAD ↗
- Who funds PRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SUN ANGEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLEY HOFFMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DESERT CLASSIC CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO COUNTY JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF MAN DBA MUSEUM OF US ↗
- Who funds JOHN MALLINGER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Amphitheater Public Schools Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
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: Pga Tour Inc · Arthur Q Johnson Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Arizona Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Philip & Amy Mickelson Charitable 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.
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