· Public charity
The Professional Golfers Assoc of America
None
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of THE PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ASSOC OF AMERICA’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+2 grants · $7.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PGA FOUNDATION INC | $7,556,761 |
| WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION | $350,000 |
| GOLF COURSE SUPERINDENDENTS | $50,000 |
| ONE HUNDRED BLACK MEN | $50,000 |
| BLACK GIRLS GOLF FOUNDATION FOR DIVERSITY & INCLUSION INC | $40,000 |
| UNITED STATES DISABLED GOLF ASSOCIATIONS INC | $35,000 |
| ROSS INITIATIVE SPORTS FOR EQUALITY INC | $25,000 |
| MARCH OF DIMES INC | $25,000 |
| ARIZONA ALLIANCE FOR GOLF | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL VETERAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL | $7,500 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR ACCESSIBLE GOLF | $6,000 |
| WOMEN IN GOLF FOUNDATION INC | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of your 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.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k 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
- PFPGA FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $20M · revenue +162% · 47% of their budget
- FTFairways to Leadership Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +55% · 51% of their budget
- CLCLEARVIEW LEGACY FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION PRESERVATION & RESEARCH2× · 2017–2021 · $23k · revenue +380%
Funded once
- NTNORTHERN TEXAS PGA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $2.5M · revenue -34%
- KUKPMG US FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +9%
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +39%
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 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…
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…
To provide opportunities for women to learn, play and enjoy the game of golf through chapter activities, educational programs, golf and networking events, and leadership development.
The united states golf association champions and advances the game of golf. it serves millions of golfers and thousands of golf courses both within the united states and around the world through programs and services that promote a…
The mission of the scga junior golf foundation is to develop an inclusive golf community that enables kids to thrive on and beyond the course. we believe that every kid in southern california, no matter their circumstance, should have the…
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…
To promote the playing and advancement of the royal and ancient game of golf in texas.
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.…
See schedule oto 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 aloha section will accomplish this mission by enhancing the skills of golf…
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 minnesota section will accomplish this mission by enhancing the skills of golf professionals…
To support and promote the game of golf in southern nevada, our mission is to grow participation, provide excellent service, and demonstrate passion in the game of golf while upholding the integrity and traditions of the game.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pga Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is United States Disabled Golf Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 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.
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 PGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN TEXAS PGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KPMG US FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Fairways to Leadership Inc ↗
- Who funds GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds ONE HUNDRED BLACK MEN INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK GIRLS GOLF FOUNDATION FOR DIVERSITY & INCLUSION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES DISABLED GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GCSAA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ross Initiative in Sports for Equality ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEARVIEW LEGACY FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION PRESERVATION & RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA ALLIANCE FOR GOLF ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL VETERAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds WHIRLPOOL COLLECTIVE IMPACT FUND ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds National Alliance For Accessible Golf ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United States Golf Association · Pga Tour Inc · Pga Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organization The Professional Golfers Assoc of America 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.
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.