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THE BEN HOGAN FOUNDATION
To honor, celebrate, and preserve the legacy and character of ben hogan through support of organizations that promote the game of golf and charities that reflect mr.
$162k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants
1
Communities
$79k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.
Recreation & Sports$732kEducation$32kPublic Benefit$25kPhilanthropy$20kHealth$10kOther$500
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
health
2019
—
2020
—
2021
youtheducationskills
2022
youtheducationskills
2023
youtheducationskills
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$79,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$252k
Total assets
Largest grants
- FIRST TEE - GREATER DETROIT$79,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 40% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$717k · 3 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
3
6
Total granted
$717k
$103k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
-15%
+95%
Still filing today
100%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Recreation & SportsEducationPublic BenefitPhilanthropyHealthOther
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
- TFTHE FIRST TEE OF FORT WORTH3× · 2017–2022 · $437k · revenue -15%
- FTFIRST TEE - GREATER DETROIT3× · 2021–2023 · $268k · revenue -78%
- THTHE HOGAN TROPHY AWARD FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $12k · revenue +237%
Funded once
- RERIDGEMOOR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $32k · revenue +95% · 76% of their budget
- AOASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +4%
- DFDEVLIN FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +134% · 28% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Tennessee Golf Foundation
To promote golf and its life-enhancing values with an emphasis on teaching the youth, veterans and the disadvantaged.
Arts & Culture
2
Virginia State Golf Association
The mission of the virginia state golf association is to promote the game of golf and serve the needs of golf in virginia.
Recreation & Sports
3
Detroit Golf Club Caddie Scholarship
Education
4
Georgia State Golf Association
Promotion of game/rules of golf throughout the state of georgia
Recreation & Sports
5
Carolinas Golf Association
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…
Recreation & Sports
6
Delaware State Golf Association
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7
Arizona Golf Foundation
The mission of the Arizona Golf Foundation is to perform research on the economic benefits of golf in Arizona, including turf research to improve and benefit the environment, promote junior golf, and assist in the development of low cost…
Recreation & Sports
8
World Golf Foundation Inc
To unite the golf industry around initiatives that promote, enhance the growth of, and provide access to the game worldwide. (See attachment 1 for Full Mission Statement).
Recreation & Sports
9
Western New York Section Pga Foundation
Provide support to various organizations within the boundries of the western new york section and to fund programs supporting or serving youth, military and diversity in golf.
Recreation & Sports
10
Maryland State Golf Association
The maryland state golf association (msga) is dedicated to promoting the game of golf in maryland and washington, dc. we welcome golfers of all ages and abilities and offer a range of initiatives aimed at enriching and expanding the…
Recreation & Sports
11
Indianapolis Junior Golf Foundation
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12
Golf Fore Life Skills
Golf fore life skills operates as the first tee of orange county and provides youth with character building and life skills lessons using golf as a platform
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Worth Junior Golf Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Association of the United States Army. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Recreation & Sports$732,454Education$32,154Public Benefit$25,000Philanthropy$20,000Health$10,000Other$500
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 THE FIRST TEE OF FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds FIRST TEE - GREATER DETROIT ↗
- Who funds RIDGEMOOR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY INC ↗
- Who funds DEVLIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER KNOXVILLE ↗
- Who funds THE HOGAN TROPHY AWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN TEXAS SECTION PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
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.
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 organisation THE BEN HOGAN 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: RIDGEMOOR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 3 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +95% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 881652468 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on RIDGEMOOR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 76% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Ben Hogan Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Ben Hogan Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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