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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.

$312k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$76k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$209kEducation$191kHuman Services$120kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kHealth$20kYouth Development$10kCivil Rights$5k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $126,415, the rows itemized in this filing. The $312,215 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $185,800 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

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLUB MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA$76,415
TEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS$20,000
CLUB MANAGERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA - GEORGIA CHAPTER$10,000
SEMINOLE REGION CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT INC$10,000
CAROLINAS CLUB 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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GOOD TIDINGS FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%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

MN
NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
NC
SC
GA
TX
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$540k · 6 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$540k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+47%

Still filing today

83%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementReligionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CM
    CLUB MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
    5× · 2019–2024 · $310k · revenue +28%
  • TI
    TEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +129%
  • SR
    SEMINOLE REGION CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +170%

Funded once

  • GT
    GOOD TIDINGS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -9%
  • FC
    FLORIDA CHAPTER CMAA CORPgraduated
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +87%
  • ER
    EVERGLADES REGION CHARITY (HURRICANE IRMA RELIEF DONATION)F
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
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
2
Greater Chicago Club Managers Association

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…

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3
Carolinas Golf Foundation

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.

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4
Upper Midwest Chapter of Club Managers Association of America

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…

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5
Professional Golfers Association of Carolinas Pga Section

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.

Recreation & Sports
6
Club Management Association of America

The purpose of the club management association of america (cmaa) is to promote and advance friendly relations between and among persons connected with the management of clubs and other associations of similar character; to encourage the…

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7
Southern California Golf Association

Southern california golf association's mission is to promote the game of golf.

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8
Carolinas Golf Course Superintendents As

The carolinas gcsa is committed to providing its members the opportunity to excel professionally and enhance the game of golf through responsible turfgrass management.

Environment
9
The Country Club of Florida

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…

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10
Cabo Collegiate

Promote and grow amateur and college golf through tournaments and education.

Recreation & Sports
11
South Carolina Golf Association

To preserve, promote, and serve the game of golf

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12
Golf Writers Association of America

To represent the interests of its members in obtaining news in the world of golf and improving their working conditions.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Chapter Cmaa Corp; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLUB MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $309,584 · OtherCLUB MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION OF AMERICANEXTGENGOLF: $40,000 · OtherNEXTGENGOLF+4 more: $35,000 · Other+4 moreTEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC: $140,000 · EducationTEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INCFairleigh Dickinson University: $10,500 · EducationFairleigh Dickinson UniversityCAROLINAS CLUB FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationCAROLINAS CLUB FOUNDATION+1 more: $5,000 · EducationSEMINOLE REGION CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCADDY FOR A CURE INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyGOOD TIDINGS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesCAROLINAS CHAPTER - CMAA: $10,000 · Community ImprovementGLIDE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Religion
Other$384,584Education$165,500Philanthropy$40,000Human Services$10,000Community Improvement$10,000Religion$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLUB MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $309,584 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC: $140,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetSEMINOLE REGION CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetFairleigh Dickinson University: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD TIDINGS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFLORIDA CHAPTER CMAA CORP: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCLUB MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA GEORGIA CHAPTER: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCAROLINAS CHAPTER - CMAA: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCAROLINAS CLUB FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetNIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $5,000 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Club Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Club Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 15 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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