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· Public charity

Southwest Section Pga Foundation

Our mission is to utilize the game of golf and our member professionals to positively impact the lives of youths, military veterans, minorities, at-risk families, and individuals within the communities we serve.

$66k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$197kHealth$142kYouth Development$46kRecreation & Sports$40kEducation$23k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $44,425, the rows itemized in this filing. The $66,209 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $21,784 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.
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$200k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA$14,425
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTH ARIZONA INC$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS$10,000
SOLID ROCK FOUNDATION$10,000
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 (FY21–25, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTH ARIZONA INC: $98k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTH ARIZONA INC: $24k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTH ARIZONA INC: $18k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTH ARIZONA INC: $12k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTH ARIZONA INC: $10k → 11%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

ME
WA
WI
NV
UT
CO
AZ
NM
TN
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$432k · 7 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
12

Total granted

$432k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+28%

Still filing today

71%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA
    5× · 2021–2025 · $162k · revenue +26%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $112k · revenue +161%
  • SR
    Solid Rock Foundation Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $46k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • NA
    NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • BC
    Bowdoin Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +27%
  • BU
    Belmont Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +28%
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
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities Midwest Mn Wi Ia

To provide a "home away from home and offer support to families seeking medical care for their children.

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5
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Greater Washongton Dc Inc

Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater washington, dc (rmhcdc) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

Health
6
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Denver Inc

The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities of denver, inc. is that we provide essential services that remove barriers for families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

Health
7
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Montana

Keeping families with a sick child/children close to the care and resources they need, when it matters the most.

Health
8
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
9
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Roosevelt University

Roosevelt university is an independent, non-profit, metropolitan university and national leader in educating socially conscious citizens for active and dedicated lives as leaders in their professions and their communities. the university's…

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12
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Central and Northern Arizona; the most unlike its peers is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Greater Las Vegas. 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

9 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. 9 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA: $162,316 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRA…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC: $111,992 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARIT…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS: $65,312 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE…UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $3,500 · Other+10 more: $14,525 · Other+10 moreSolid Rock Foundation Inc: $46,100 · Youth DevelopmentSolid Rock …SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC: $39,821 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OL…Bowdoin College: $2,000 · EducationBelmont University: $2,000 · EducationUniversity of New England: $500 · Education
Human Services$162,316Health$111,992Other$83,337Youth Development$46,100Recreation & Sports$39,821Education$4,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA: $162,316 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC: $111,992 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS: $65,312 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSolid Rock Foundation Inc: $46,100 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC: $39,821 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBowdoin College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN SECTION OF THE PGA OF AMERICA INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Southwest Section Pga Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southwest Section Pga Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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