· Public charity
United States Golf Association
The UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION champions and advances the game of golf.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 91 grants below total $7,927,742 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,818,845 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $891,103 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $841k
- $50k–250k57 grants · $4.9M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLF ASSOCIATION | $146,850 |
| CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION | $146,850 |
| TEXAS 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 |
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 (FY24–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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 +74% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
110 repeat relationships — 80 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $601k 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
- TLTHE LPGA FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +93%
- MTMASTERS TOURNAMENT FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +83%
- TSTHE SCGA FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +101% · 39% of their budget
Funded once
- MGMETROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $400k · revenue +97% · 38% of their budget
- GFGCSAA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $349k · revenue +34%
- GCGOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $127k · revenue +42%
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.
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.
To represent the interests of its members in obtaining news in the world of golf and improving their working conditions.
To promote the true spirit of amateur golf and encourage and cultivate spirit of fellowship and friendly competition among members of the association.
The primary moving force behind the promotion and betterment of golf in central ohio
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 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 south florida section will accomplish this mission by enhancing the skills of golf…
To promote the enjoyment & involvement in the game of golf and to contribute to the growth of the golf professional and the golf industry. the georgia section will accomplish this mission by enhancing the skills of the golf professionals…
To promote participation in women's golf.
Carry out charitable & educational purposes of sdga
The purpose of the association is to enable golf course superintendents in the commonwealth of virginia to be unified, affiliated, and represented on a state and national level. the purpose is further to promote networking, education and…
To encourage friendly competition in golf among senior players, hold tournaments annually at new england clubs that are members in good standing of the usga and foster the game of golf in the spirit and tradition of the usga.
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 wisconsin section will accomplish this mission by enhancing the skills of golf professionals…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Golf Association and the most unlike its peers is EcoAdapt. 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 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
117 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. 117 of the 169 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 WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LPGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MASTERS TOURNAMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS A&M RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLF ASSOCIATION - T ↗
- Who funds THE TEXAS GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS GOLF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOLF ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TURFGRASS FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL LINKS GOLF ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds California Turfgrass and Landscape Foundation ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GOLF ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI GOLF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GCSAA FOUNDATION ↗
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: Ncga Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · The Professional Golfers Assoc of America · Wadsworth Golf Charities Foundation · American Junior Golf Foundation Inc · The Lpga Foundation · Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research · Amateur Golf Alliance · Golf Course Superintendents Association of America · Pga Foundation Inc · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Pga Tour First Tee Foundation 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 organization 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.
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
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.