How much did UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION grant in FY2024?

UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION reported 91 grants totaling $8,818,845 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION based?

UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION is based in NJ.

UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION

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· Public charity

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.

$8.8M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$761k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION’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

2019

sportscgamemberpreservemanagementdemonstratetech

2020

emergency reliefcgamemberpreservetraditionsinternshipinformation

2021

internship subsidyregents univoperationbenefit

2022

internship subsidy

2023

internship subsidyde&ispiritscholarshipsgolfingpromotion

2024

internshipsgreenkeeper apprenticeshipimpactcgamembertraditionspreserve

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

03FY2024 · 91 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k28 grants · $841k
$50k–250k57 grants · $4.9M
$250k+5 grants · $2.2M

$60,180

Median grant

States reached

$806M

Total assets

Largest grants

MASTERS TOURNAMENT FOUNDATION INC$760,660
LPGA FOUNDATION$505,000
WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION$350,000
PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC$325,000
TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH$271,568
PURDUE UNIVERSITY$173,274
METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION$162,000
NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY$147,549
TEXAS GOLF ASSOCIATION$146,850
CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION$146,850
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLF ASSOCIATION$146,850
RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY$143,627
GOLF ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA$134,850
COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION$134,074
ARIZONA GOLF ASSOCIATION$124,000

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:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$42M · 103 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.

103 repeat relationships — 80 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

103

Total granted

$42M

$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%

+55%

Still filing today

64%

62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $601k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Recreation & SportsEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyMembership BenefitOther

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

MT
Masters Tournament Foundation
6× · 2019–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +83%
TL
The LPGA Foundation Inc
6× · 2019–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +93%
FS
Florida State Golf Association
6× · 2019–2024 · $990k · revenue +105%

Funded once

SF
SCGA FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $1.2M · revenue +101% · 39% of their budget
MG
METROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATION LLCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $400k · revenue +116% · 38% of their budget
TE
The Environmental Institute for Golf
one grant, 2019 · $349k · revenue +9%

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.

Delaware State Golf Association

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Golf Association of Philadelphia

Recreation & Sports

South Carolina Golf Association

To preserve promote and serve the game of golf

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Golf Writers Association of America

To represent the interests of its members in obtaining news in the world of golf and improving their working conditions.

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Golden Gate Park Golf

The mission of the organization is to use the golden gate park golf course to provide creative and innovative programs to disadvantaged san francisco youth and the general community.

Youth Development

International Association of Golf Administrators Inc

The association has been formed and exists for the purpose of promoting and conserving the best interests and the true spirit of the game of golf as embodied in its ancient and honorable traditions.

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American Seniors Golf Assoc Inc

Promoting golf among seniors

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The Trans-Mississippi Golf Association

To promote the true spirit of amateur golf and encourage and cultivate a spirit of fellowship and friendly competition among members of the association.

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Columbus District Golf Association

The primary moving force behind the promotion and betterment of golf in central ohio. the organization conducts twelve tournaments and championships. it supervises the computation of usga handicaps.

Recreation & Sports

Professional Golfers Association of

Promote the enjoyment and involvement in the game of golf within the carolinas and to contribute to its growth by providing services to golf professionals and the golf industry within the carolinas.

Recreation & Sports

Professional Golfers Association

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…

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Tennessee Golf Foundation

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

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Golf Association and the most unlike its peers is Loyola University of Chicago. 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 39 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%2/137

the rest of the field

11%

206,162/1,819,428

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.

05the grantee network

90 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

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)

87/90

Grantees still filing

80/90

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$21,462,888Recreation & Sports$14,060,205Education$4,920,492Philanthropy$3,465,980Arts & Culture$672,755Community Improvement$508,750Environment$200,000

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Ncga FoundationCA54.7× affinity23 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ncga Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · Golf Course Superintendents Association · Foundation for Food and Agriculture · American Junior Golf Foundation Inc · World Golf Foundation Inc · Amateur Golf Alliance · American Chemical Society · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Pga Tour Charities Inc · University of Pittsburgh · New England Golf Association Inc

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 UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION 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

15get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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: National Turfgrass Federation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 320218619 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 National Turfgrass Federation, 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

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% 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 United States Golf Association?

Find your warmest path to United States Golf Association 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.

UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION

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

90 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United States Golf Association?

More from the funding graph

UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION

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

90 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United States Golf Association?

More from the funding graph