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· Public charity

The Lpga Foundation

To inspire, empower and transform the lives of girls and women through the game of golf.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Recreation & Sports$956kEducation$893kInternational$25kScience & Tech$25kYouth Development$24kPhilanthropy$18kHuman Services$6k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $306,900 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,002,209 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $695,309 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 $10k6 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$8,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEARVIEW LEGACY FOUNDATION$200,000
THE SCGA FOUNDATION$30,500
GIRLS GOLF OF AMERICA INC$25,000
WOMEN IN GOLF FOUNDATION$12,500
WESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION$8,000
INSPIRING GREATNESS IN YOU$7,300
WORLD OF GOLF FOUNDATION$6,500
RENAISSANCE JUNIOR GOLF INC$6,500
KIMNGOLF LLC$5,500
NATIONAL ALLIANCE$5,100
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Peninsula Metropolitan YMCA: $6k → 17%WORLD OF GOLF FOUNDATION: $7k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

ID
IL
WI
NV
SD
IN
OH
NJ
CA
NE
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
AR
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $156k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions, $61k to organizations and $96k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$142k · 91% · 2 grants · 2 people

Stated purpose: GENERAL DONATION · GIRLS GOLF SUPPORT

East Asia and the Pacific$15k · 9% · 4 people

Stated purpose: GIRLS GOLF SUPPORT

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 17 repeat orgs$397k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +95% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
33

Total granted

$1.5M
$377k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+95%
+9%

Still filing today

82%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • LT
    LEARNING THROUGH GOLF FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $800k · revenue +139% · 80% of their budget
  • GG
    GIRLS GOLF OF AMERICA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +192%
  • TS
    THE SCGA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $83k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • PF
    Partners Fore Golf Inc The First Tee Tri-Valleygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +89%
  • GF
    GOLF FORE AFRICA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -94%
  • JI
    JULI INKSTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -56%

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
Indianapolis Junior Golf Foundation
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2
Wpga Junior Foundation Inc

To provide positive opportunities, enjoyment, and education to juniors in the game of golf. the mission will be accomplished through tournaments, clinics, camps, academies, scholarships, and grants.

Recreation & Sports
3
The Watson Youth Golf Foundation
Recreation & Sports
4
Golf Association of Philadelphia Foundation
Recreation & Sports
5
Georgia State Golf Association

Promotion of game/rules of golf throughout the state of georgia

Recreation & Sports
6
Junior Cup Golf

Provide developmental opportunities for junior golfers to play and learn the game of golf. activities include forming community based junior golf teams to train and compete together as well as hosting instructional clinics.

Recreation & Sports
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
Sl Gee Ll Foundation Inc

to provide a pipeline to academic excell

Recreation & Sports
9
South Carolina Junior Golf Association

To promote, preserve, and serve the game of junior golf

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10
Youth Driving for Values

First tee utah is a youth development organization introducing the game of golf and its inherent values to young people through after school, in school, and golf course programs. we help shape the lives of young prople from all walks of…

Recreation & Sports
11
All Abilities Golf Academy
Recreation & Sports
12
Gsga Foundation Inc

Provide educational opportunities for employees, or children of employees, of gsga member clubs, through the yates scholarship program and for young people who are in the study of turfgrass and agronomy at the university of georgia and…

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Golf Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Morgan Pressel Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%51%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%78%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%1%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,511

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 54 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
24/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LEARNING THROUGH GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $800,000 · Recreation & SportsLEARNING THROUGH GOLF FOUNDATION INCGIRLS GOLF OF AMERICA INC — $189,675 · Recreation & SportsGIRLS GOLF OF AMERICA INCFUTURE CITIZENS FOUNDATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF MONTEREY COUNTY — $95,625 · Recreation & SportsFUTURE CITIZENS FOUNDATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF MONTEREY COUNTYTHE SCGA FOUNDATION — $83,475 · Recreation & SportsTHE SCGA FOUNDATIONWORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 · Recreation & SportsPartners Fore Golf Inc The First Tee Tri-Valley — $55,000 · Recreation & Sports+17 more — $221,500 · Recreation & Sports+17 moreJUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA INC — $52,000 · OtherJUNIOR GOLF ASSO…RENAISSANCE JR GOLF — $48,750 · OtherRENAISSANCE JR G…GOLF FORE AFRICA INC — $25,000 · OtherGOLF FORE AFRICA…The First Tee of Delaware — $11,750 · OtherA PERFECT SWING FOUNDATION INC — $11,500 · OtherWORLD OF GOLF FOUNDATION — $10,750 · OtherKARYN DUNPHY LLC — $10,325 · OtherST GREGORY'S UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA — $10,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE — $10,000 · OtherGIRLS IN THE GAME NFP — $10,000 · OtherTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · Other+9 more — $59,455 · Other+9 moreWOMEN IN GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $58,250 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULAS — $5,700 · Human ServicesGreater Cleveland Junior Golf — $16,825 · EducationFURMAN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationMorgan Pressel Foundation Inc — $25,000 · HealthGLOVE FOUNDATION — $18,000 · PhilanthropyDREAMS OF LOIS — $7,625 · Youth DevelopmentSOUTH DAKOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION — $6,000 · Youth Development
Recreation & Sports$1,500,275Other$289,530Human Services$63,950Education$36,825Health$25,000Philanthropy$18,000Youth Development$13,625

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLEARNING THROUGH GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $800,000 over 4y, 80% of budgetGIRLS GOLF OF AMERICA INC — $189,675 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetFUTURE CITIZENS FOUNDATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF MONTEREY COUNTY — $95,625 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE SCGA FOUNDATION — $83,475 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetWOMEN IN GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $58,250 over 5y, 14% of budgetWORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPartners Fore Golf Inc The First Tee Tri-Valley — $55,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetJUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA INC — $52,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetNational Alliance For Accessible Golf — $35,700 over 7y, 17% of budgetGOLF FORE AFRICA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJULI INKSTER FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetMorgan Pressel Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetRISING LEADERS OF NORTH FLORIDA INC — $23,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGLOVE FOUNDATION — $18,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetGreater Cleveland Junior Golf — $16,825 over 2y, 23% of budgetHAWAII STATE JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION IN — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKIDS BUILDING CHARACTER INC — $14,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE — $13,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSIOUXLAND YOUTH GOLF ASSOCIATION — $13,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetUSA GOLF FEDERATION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetST GREGORY'S UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJERSEY SHORE JUNIOR GOLF INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetUpstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN YOUTH GOLF PROGRAM ASSOC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGIRLS IN THE GAME NFP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREAMS OF LOIS — $7,625 over 1y, 32% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON DC LANGSTON GOLF COURSE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $7,030 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN - CHICAGO INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF LAKE ERIE — $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GREATER PENSACOLA JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION INC — $6,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULAS — $5,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORTON FOUNDATION — $5,675 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER BALTIMORE INC — $5,625 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
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.

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.

World Golf Foundation…Pga Tour First Tee Fo…Dick's Sporting Goods…Pga Tour IncUnited States Golf As…American Junior Golf …Good Sports IncCommunity Foundation …The Allstate Foundati…The Bank of America C…Baird Foundation IncCharities Aid Foundat…
World Golf Foundation IncFL52.5× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: World Golf Foundation Inc · Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · United States Golf Association · American Junior Golf Foundation Inc · Good Sports Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Allstate Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Lpga 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Urban Youth Golf Program Assoc — 0% of income from government
  • Children's Golf Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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: 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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