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· Public charity

The New Jersey Golf Foundation Inc

To positively impact lives and communities through the game of golf, focusing on three pillars: youth, special needs and military.

$186k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$39k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$201kEducation$47kHuman Services$45kYouth Development$39kHealth$20k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $116,852, the rows itemized in this filing. The $185,723 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $68,871 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 $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $108k
$20,550
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NJSGA Youth Foundation$39,300
Folds of Honor$38,002
SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY$20,550
METROPOLITIAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION$10,000
Virginia Commonwealth University$9,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Folds of Honor: $38k → 11%METROPOLITIAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%FIRST RESPONDERS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%THE LPGA FOUNDATION: $12k → 12%THE SALVATION ARMY NEW JERSEY: $15k → 10%SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY: $27k → 11%CATHOLIC FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 12%RWJ BARNABAS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20k → 16%Virginia Commonwealth University: $9k → 22%THE LPGA FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%NJSGA Youth Foundation: $39k → 10%SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY: $21k → 11%NJSGA Youth Foundation: $25k → 10%SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY: $19k → 11%SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY: $18k → 11%SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY: $16k → 11%SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY: $15k → 11%SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY: $14k → 11%SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY: $14k → 11%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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$230k · 3 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
3

Total granted

$230k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+30%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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
EducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $144k · revenue +24%
  • NY
    NJSGA YOUTH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $65k · revenue +4% · 30% of their budget
  • TL
    THE LPGA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $22k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • SB
    SAINT BARNABAS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -24%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORP
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • CF
    CATHOLIC FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +30%
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
New Jersey State Golf Association Caddie Scholarship Foundation Inc

The new jersey state golf association caddie scholarship foundation, inc. (the "foundation") was formed to provide college financial aid to caddies of member clubs of the new jersey state golf association, inc., which also administers the…

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2
Ladies Professional Golf Association

To promote worldwide interest in the game of women's professional golf. primary activities include sanctioning and administering golf tournaments and providing education and certification opportunities for individuals in the golf industry.

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3
New Jersey State Golf Association

The new jersey state golf association, inc. ("the association") is a non-profit organization of public and private clubs that was formed for the purpose of preserving and promoting the game of golf throughout the state of new jersey.the…

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4
Pga Tour Inc

The principal mission of pga tour, inc. is to promote the sport of professional golf through sanctioning and administering golf tournaments and promoting the common interests of touring golf professionals. this is accomplished by providing…

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5
Connecticut Section Pga Golf Foundation Inc

The foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization whose mission is to foster local and regional amateur golf competition with an emphasis on junior golf and to furnish instructional materials and programs designed to improve golfing…

Recreation & Sports
6
Metropolitan Section Pga Foundation Inc

To promote the goodwill and growth of the game of golf through education, instruction, scholarships, and other player development initiatives with a focus on junior golfers, veterens and those who are underserved by the game.

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7
Western Pennsylvania Golf Association

The western pennsylvania golf association's purpose is to promote and advance interest in the true spirit of the game of golf through western pennsylvania.

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8
Maryland State Golf Association

To serve, grow and advance the game of golf in maryland and the district of columbia.

Recreation & Sports
9
Usga Foundation

The foundation is dedicated to fulfilling the usga's mission to champion and advance the game of golf, everywhere it is played. its purpose is soley charitable, scientific, and educational within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the…

Recreation & Sports
10
Jersey Shore Junior Golf Inc

To provide life skills and build character in today's youth through teachings incorporated in the game of golf.

Recreation & Sports
11
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
12
Philadelphia Section P G a Inc

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 philadelphia section will accomplish this mission by enhancing the skills of golf…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Metropolitan Golf Association Foundation; the most unlike its peers is National Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC: $143,825 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INCSALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORP: $15,141 · OtherSALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORPCATHOLIC FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $15,141 · OtherCATHOLIC FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INCVCUVCU HEALTH CAMPUS: $9,000 · OtherNJSGA YOUTH FOUNDATION: $64,622 · Youth DevelopmentNJSGA YOUTH FOUNDATI…FOLDS OF HONOR EASTERN-PA-NJ-CHAPTER: $38,002 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR EAST…THE LPGA FOUNDATION: $22,000 · EducationTHE LPGA FOUNDATIONSAINT BARNABAS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation: $15,141 · Crime & LegalMETROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$183,107Youth Development$64,622Education$60,002Health$20,000Crime & Legal$15,141Arts & Culture$10,000

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 budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC: $143,825 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNJSGA YOUTH FOUNDATION: $64,622 over 2y, 30% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR EASTERN-PA-NJ-CHAPTER: $38,002 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTHE LPGA FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT BARNABAS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation: $15,141 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $15,141 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 The New Jersey Golf Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The New Jersey Golf Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Catholic Family and Community Services Inc: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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 10 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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