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The Club Foundation
THE CLUB FOUNDATION was formed for charitable and educational purposes to foster intellectual excellence in the field of club management.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $126,415 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $312,215 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $185,800 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
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLUB MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA | $76,415 |
| TEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS | $20,000 |
| SEMINOLE REGION CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT INC | $10,000 |
| CLUB MANAGERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA - GEORGIA CHAPTER | $10,000 |
| CAROLINAS CLUB FOUNDATION | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- CMCLUB MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA5× · 2019–2024 · $310k · revenue +28%
- TITEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +104%
- SRSEMINOLE REGION CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT INC2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +170%
Funded once
- GTGOOD TIDINGS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -9%
- CCCAROLINAS CHAPTER - CMAAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +47%
- FCFLORIDA CHAPTER CMAA CORPgraduated2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +50%
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 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…
The association is a professional association which functions as a chapter of the club managers association of america. the purpose of this association is to promote and advance friendly relationships between and among persons connected…
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.
Southern california golf association's mission is to promote the game of golf.
The country club of florida is devoted to preserving its rich tradition through the friendship and camaraderie of its members. offering a premier golf course, clubhouse and lifestyle center, warm and professional staff, the club continues…
CMAA is a professional education association for managers at the country's leading clubs. Membership in CMAA affords managers unparalleled resources, professional growth and the most extensive and well respected certification program in…
The club foundation was formed for charitable and educational purposes to foster intellectual excellence in the field of club management. this purpose is achieved by awarding scholarships or research grants to individuals and by making…
The carolinas gcsa is committed to providing its members the opportunity to excel professionally and enhance the game of golf through responsible turfgrass management.
To promote the playing and advancement of the royal and ancient game of golf in texas.
The carolinas golf foundation was formed by the carolinas golf association in 1977 to provide scholarships and funding for a variety of carolinas-based golf initiatives.
The mission of the virginia state golf association is to promote the game of golf and serve the needs of golf in virginia.
To promote the enjoyment and involvement in the game of golf and to contribute to the growth of the golf professional and the golf industry. the south florida section will accomplish this mission by enhancing the skills of golf…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Club Management Association of America and the most unlike its peers is Fairleigh Dickinson University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 15 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 CLUB MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds SEMINOLE REGION CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CADDY FOR A CURE INC ↗
- Who funds Fairleigh Dickinson University ↗
- Who funds GOOD TIDINGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAROLINAS CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAROLINAS CHAPTER - CMAA ↗
- Who funds CLUB MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA GEORGIA CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA CHAPTER CMAA CORP ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GLIDE FOUNDATION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 The Club 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
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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