How much did THE PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ASSOC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of THE PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ASSOC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

2020

collective impact

2021

research

2022

juniorpromotion

2023

methodistbusinessresearch

2024

businesseducationtournaments

2025

disabledveteran ownedowned businessesdeliveryplaysportsrelations

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$250k+2 grants · $4.4M

$100,000

Median grant

States reached

$451M

Total assets

Largest grants

PGA FOUNDATION INC$3,688,756
WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION$750,000
FAIRWAYS TO LEADERSHIP INC$100,000
GOLF COURSE SUPERINDENDENTS$50,000
ARIZONA ALLIANCE FOR GOLF$10,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 9%. 49% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$14M · 3 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +125% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$14M

$10M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+125%

+37%

Still filing today

100%

90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Recreation & SportsEducationHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

PF
PGA FOUNDATION INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $12M · revenue +125% · 30% of their budget
WG
WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION
3× · 2022–2024 · $1.6M · revenue -107%
FT
FAIRWAYS TO LEADERSHIP INC
2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +278% · 51% of their budget

Funded once

FF
FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS
one grant, 2021 · $7.3M · revenue +15%
NT
NORTHERN TEXAS PGA JUNIOR GOLF FOUNgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $2.5M · revenue +106%
KU
KPMG US FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +71%

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.

Tennessee Golf Foundation

To promote golf and its life-enhancing values with an emphasis on teaching the youth, veterans and the disadvantaged.

Arts & Culture

Georgia State Golf Association

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

Recreation & Sports

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

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

Golf Association of Philadelphia

Recreation & Sports

The Texas Golf Association

The texas golf association is one of the largest and most respected golf associations in the country, with an ongoing commitment of ensuring that the top resources and most dependable staff are in place to meet current and future needs of…

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Southern Texas Professional Golfers

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

Usga Foundation

The foundation's primary objective is to provide financial (continued on schedule o).support to the usga as it carries out its programs to advance its charitable mission.

Recreation & Sports

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

United States Golf Association

The united states golf association's mission is to champion and advance the game of golf, and its purpose is embedded into each of the four letters of our name. as golf's steward and governing body in america, our initials u (unify) s…

Recreation & Sports

Professional Golfers Assoc of America

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

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Pga Tour Inc

To promote the sport of professional golf and the common interests of touring golf professionals.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pga Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Midnight Golf Program. 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

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/15

Grantees still filing

10/15

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$12,449,394Philanthropy$7,322,244Recreation & Sports$4,322,500Public Safety & Disaster$500,000Education$52,500Health$16,000Community Improvement$15,000Youth Development$12,500

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.

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.

Pga Tour IncFL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pga Tour Inc · Pga Foundation Inc · United States Golf Association · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ASSOC 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: FAIRWAYS TO LEADERSHIP INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~19 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.8× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 853872734 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 FAIRWAYS TO LEADERSHIP INC, 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 19 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 51% 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 Professional Golfers Assoc?

Find your warmest path to The Professional Golfers Assoc 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.

THE PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ASSOC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Professional Golfers Assoc?

More from the funding graph

THE PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ASSOC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Professional Golfers Assoc?

More from the funding graph