· Public charity
The Touchstone Golf Foundation
Touchstone golf foundation is dedicated to improving our communities through service, education and charitable efforts by raising funds through golf related activities, and promoting the enjoyment of and the values learned through the game of golf.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $143,840 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $220,903 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $77,063 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY HOUSE | $33,441 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $32,640 |
| CENTER AGAINST SEXUAL AND FAMILY VIOLENCE | $10,313 |
| PASO DEL NORTE FOUNDATION FOR THE HEART GALLERY OF | $10,313 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE HILL COUNTRY | $10,000 |
| THE WILLIAM CRESTON HILL FOUNDATION | $9,562 |
| RED CROSS OF RIVERSIDE | $8,472 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF COLORADO | $6,956 |
| OPERATION FREEDOM PASS | $6,686 |
| MATTHEW'S CROSSING | $5,457 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k 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
- DSDripping Springs Athletic Booster Club3× · 2018–2021 · $36k · revenue +110%
- DSDRIPPING SPRINGS YOUTH SPORTS2× · 2023–2024 · $33k · revenue +8%
- ELEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $31k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF EL PASOone grant, 2023 · $31k · revenue -23%
- LPLA POSADA HOME INCone grant, 2022 · $28k · revenue -11%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTHWESTone grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue +18%
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.
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Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.
Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
To provide opportunity to young people and develop leaders for industry, philanthropy, education and the community through the intercollegiate athletic experience.
Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
To provide compassionate, coordinated, family-centered care for children with a dedicated commitment to excellent patient outcomes, inclusive leadership and innovative pediatric research and education.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Greater Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is The William Creston Hill Foundation. 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 39 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.
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 Jordan & Kyra Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Paso del Norte Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Dripping Springs Athletic Booster Club ↗
- Who funds DRIPPING SPRINGS YOUTH SPORTS ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF EL PASO ↗
- Who funds EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LA POSADA HOME INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds The William Creston Hill Foundation ↗
- Who funds SK8 4KIDS ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FREEDOM PAWS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF EL PASO ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN ↗
- Who funds I Got This Foundation ↗
- Who funds Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa ↗
- Who funds CENTER AGAINST SEXUAL AND FAMILY VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds COTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association ↗
- Who funds THE SCGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lake Chabot Junior Golf Academy ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW'S CROSSING ↗
- Who funds TALAS - TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF LATINOADMINISTRATORS AND SUPERINTENDENTS ↗
- Who funds BEAR CREEK HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION ↗
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: Paso del Norte Community Foundation · Sue Smith Harrison Family Foundation · The Hunt Family Foundation · El Paso Community Foundation · The Allstate Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Touchstone Golf 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 or a single department — 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.
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