· Public charity
Tennessee Golf Foundation
To promote golf and its life-enhancing values with an emphasis on teaching the youth, veterans and the disadvantaged.
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 8 grants below total $207,247 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $271,282 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $64,035 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 $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SNEDEKER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CONCORD PARK | $34,190 |
| BEVERLY PARK | $18,746 |
| TN SECTION PGA | $15,000 |
| MILLIGAN COLLEGE | $13,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $12,500 |
| THE HONORS COURSE | $8,561 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $5,250 |
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% 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.
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 +20% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- TSTHE SNEDEKER FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +48%
- TSTN SECTION PGA OF AMERICA5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +50%
- TGTENNESSEE GOLF ASSOCIATION5× · 2017–2023 · $13k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INCone grant, 2023 · $354k · revenue -4%
- NSNASHVILLE SPORTS COUNCIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $29k · revenue +42%
- NCNASHVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -14%
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.
Grow and develop tennis in tennessee.
To promote golf and its life-enhancing values with an emphasis on teaching the youth, veterans and the disadvantaged.
To develop sportsmanship, character and integrity through athletic competition
To promote the playing and advancement of the royal and ancient game of golf in texas.
To introduce and provide youth in south texas broad opportunities to experience the game of golf, develop their talent as players and themselves as individuals and promote scholarship benefits to as many qualified candidates as possible.…
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 and expand community awareness of the game of golf in texas through programs serving junior golfers and the community at large.
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…
Statewide association of lodging and dining establishments
To promote golfing throughout west virginia
To foster, promote and advance the interests and the true spirit of the game of golf throughout the commonwealth of kentucky, and in conjunction therewith to lend its cooperation and assistance to the united states golf association, and to…
To promote the sport of golf.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tennessee Golf Association and the most unlike its peers is Tshawstrong. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 18 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 FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SNEDEKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Knoxville Area Junior Golf Association ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TN SECTION PGA OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE SPORTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds MILLIGAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMS CREEK YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TSHAWSTRONG ↗
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: East Tennessee Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving 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 Tennessee Golf 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.