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· Public charity

Tennessee Golf Foundation

To promote golf and its life-enhancing values with an emphasis on teaching the youth, veterans and the disadvantaged.

$271k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$777kEducation$264kPublic Benefit$26kHealth$15kFood & Nutrition$11k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $207,247, the rows itemized in this filing. The $271,282 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $64,035 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 $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TN SECTION PGA: $15k → 4%OLD FORT GOLF CLUB: $9k → 9%KNOX COUNTY TENNESSEE GOVERNMENT: $14k → 12%UTC ATHLETICS: $40k → 12%NASHVILLE SPORTS COUNCIL: $29k → 14%WEST TENNESSEE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%MILLIGAN COLLEGE: $13k → 18%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 18%TENNESSEE SECTIO PGA: $15k → 4%KNOX COUNTY TENNESSEE GOVERNMENT: $12k → 12%UTC ATHLETICS: $40k → 12%FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS: $354k → 14%TN SECTION PGA: $15k → 4%BEVERLY PARK: $19k → 12%UTC ATHLETICS: $20k → 12%NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $25k → 14%TN SECTION PGA: $15k → 4%BEVERLY PARK: $16k → 12%THE SNEDEKER FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%TENNESSEE SECTION PGA: $15k → 4%BEVERLY PARK: $13k → 12%THE SNEDEKER FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%TENNESSEE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $7k → 4%CONCORD PARK: $34k → 12%TSHAWSTRONG INC: $5k → 14%TENNESSEE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $6k → 4%CONCORD PARK: $30k → 12%CONCORD PARK: $30k → 12%KAJGA - CONCORD PARK: $30k → 12%KAJGA - CONCORD PARK: $21k → 12%FIRST TEE GREATER KNOXVILLE: $6k → 12%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.
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$606k · 6 repeat orgs$477k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against -4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$606k
$438k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
-4%

Still filing today

67%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
EducationRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • TS
    THE SNEDEKER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +48%
  • TS
    TN SECTION PGA OF AMERICA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +50%
  • TG
    TENNESSEE GOLF ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2017–2023 · $13k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $354k · revenue -4%
  • NS
    NASHVILLE SPORTS COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $29k · revenue +42%
  • NC
    NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -14%
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
Tennessee Golf Association

The purposes of the tga are to promote the best interests and spirit of the game of golf throughout the state of tennessee.

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2
Tn Section Pga of America

To elevate the standards of the professional golfer's vocation and to promote interest in the game of golf.

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3
Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association

To develop sportsmanship, character and integrity through athletic competition

Recreation & Sports
4
Tennessee Golf Foundation

To promote golf and its life-enhancing values with an emphasis on teaching the youth, veterans and the disadvantaged.

Arts & Culture
5
Southern Tennis Association Inc

Growing tennis to inspire healthier people and communities everywhere.

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6
Tennessee Hospitality & Tourism Association

Statewide association of lodging and dining establishments

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7
The Texas Golf Association Foundation

To promote and expand community awareness of the game of golf in texas through programs serving junior golfers and the community at large.

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8
Southern Texas Professional Golfers Association Foundation

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.…

Recreation & Sports
9
Kentucky Golf Association Inc

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…

Recreation & Sports
10
The Golf Club of Tennessee

The Golf Club of Tennessee was established in order to provide dedicated golfers with an excellent course and quality facilities. Staffed to provide superior service, The Golf Club of Tennessee enables its members to enjoy golf as it…

Education
11
The Golf Club of Tennessee Scholarship Fund

Provide educational scholarships for college, vocational or trade school, and graduate or postgraduate education to individuals who are caddies at the Golf Club of Tennessee, are otherwise employed by the club, or are children of such…

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12
Kentucky Junior Golf Foundation

To promote interest in junior golf.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Christian Schools Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 18 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)
12/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Knoxville Area Junior Golf Association: $192,805 · OtherKnoxville Area Junior Golf AssociationTN SECTION PGA OF AMERICA: $75,000 · OtherTN SECTION PGA OF AMERICANASHVILLE SPORTS COUNCIL INC: $28,500 · OtherNASHVILLE SPORTS COUNCIL INCKNOX COUNTY SCHOOLSPTA CLOTHING CE: $25,646 · OtherKNOX COUNTY SCHOOLSPTA CLOTHING CENASHVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $25,000 · OtherNASHVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC+6 more: $58,245 · Other+6 moreFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $353,758 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC+1 more: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE SNEDEKER FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationTHE SNEDEKER FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDA…MILLIGAN UNIVERSITY: $13,000 · EducationWEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthTSHAWSTRONG: $5,043 · Health
Other$405,196Recreation & Sports$359,758Education$313,000Health$15,043

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $353,758 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetTHE SNEDEKER FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetKnoxville Area Junior Golf Association: $192,805 over 8y, 24% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTN SECTION PGA OF AMERICA: $75,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNASHVILLE SPORTS COUNCIL INC: $28,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNASHVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILLIGAN UNIVERSITY: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $12,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAMS CREEK YOUTH FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTSHAWSTRONG: $5,043 over 1y, 4.0% 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.

East Tennessee Founda…The Community Foundat…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
East Tennessee FoundationTN13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Tennessee Golf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tennessee Golf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    4report 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 18 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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