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United States Golf Association

The UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION champions and advances the game of golf.

$8.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
91
Grants FY2024still arriving
49
States reached
$761k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$47MEducation$1.2MEnvironment$1.2MFood & Nutrition$451kCommunity Improvement$367kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kYouth Development$6k
02FY2024 · 91 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 91 grants below total $7,927,742, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,818,845 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $891,103 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

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
49
States reached
$806M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TEXAS GOLF ASSOCIATION$146,850
CAROLINAS 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
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOMEN IN GOLF FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$47M · 110 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

110
51

Total granted

$47M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+13%

Still filing today

63%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TL
    THE LPGA FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +93%
  • MT
    MASTERS TOURNAMENT FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +83%
  • TS
    THE SCGA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +101% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • MG
    METROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $400k · revenue +97% · 38% of their budget
  • GF
    GCSAA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $349k · revenue +34%
  • GC
    GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $127k · revenue +42%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Professional Golfers Association of Carolinas Pga Section

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
2
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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3
Columbus District Golf Association

The primary moving force behind the promotion and betterment of golf in central ohio

Recreation & Sports
4
The Trans-Mississippi Golf Association

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

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5
Professional Golfers Association Mn Section

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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6
Professional Golfers Association of South Florida Section

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…

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7
Women's Golf Coaches Association

To promote participation in women's golf.

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8
Virginia Golf Course Superintendents Association

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…

Community Improvement
9
New England Senior Golfer's Association Inc

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.

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10
South Dakota Golf Association Junior Golf Foundation

Carry out charitable & educational purposes of sdga

Youth Development
11
Amateur Golf Alliance

Our mission is to provide the championship with its playability and unique hole designs in the dfw area. we also offer the players golf courses to support and promote amateur golfers with more opportunities to compete at national and…

Recreation & Sports
12
Wisconsin Section of the Pga of America Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Golf Association; 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.
04the grantee network

117 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
57
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/117
Grantees still filing
87/117
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,557,320 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITYOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $920,028 · OtherNORTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLF ASSOCIATION - T: $894,862 · OtherTHE TEXAS GOLF ASSOCIATION: $873,317 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $829,323 · Other+113 more: $18,796,359 · Other+113 moreWORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $5,853,143 · Recreation & SportsWORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INCTHE SCGA FOUNDATION: $1,269,075 · Recreation & SportsTHE SCGA FOUNDATIONFLORIDA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $1,025,582 · Recreation & SportsFLORIDA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION INCCAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION: $781,143 · Recreation & SportsCOLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION: $604,576 · Recreation & Sports+31 more: $5,747,686 · Recreation & Sports+31 moreTHE LPGA FOUNDATION: $3,870,000 · EducationTHE LPGA FOU…TEXAS A&M RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,034,136 · EducationTEXAS A&M RE…GCSAA FOUNDATION: $349,000 · EducationGCSAA FOUNDA…+7 more: $306,209 · Education+7 moreMASTERS TOURNAMENT FOUNDATION INC: $3,545,469 · PhilanthropyMETROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $678,755 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL TURFGRASS FEDERATION INC: $565,750 · Community ImprovementSUN COUNTRY AMATEUR GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $72,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER CINCINNATI GOLF ASSOCIATION: $216,121 · Membership Benefit
Other$23,871,209Recreation & Sports$15,281,205Education$5,559,345Philanthropy$3,545,469Arts & Culture$678,755Community Improvement$637,750Membership Benefit$216,121

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $5,853,143 over 7y, 13% of budgetTHE LPGA FOUNDATION: $3,870,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetMASTERS TOURNAMENT FOUNDATION INC: $3,545,469 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetTHE SCGA FOUNDATION: $1,269,075 over 2y, 39% of budgetTEXAS A&M RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,034,136 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFLORIDA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $1,025,582 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLF ASSOCIATION - T: $894,862 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetTHE TEXAS GOLF ASSOCIATION: $873,317 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetCAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION: $781,143 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $708,429 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $678,755 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetGOLF ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA: $663,672 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetCOLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION: $604,576 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetARIZONA GOLF ASSOCIATION: $601,013 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLF ASSOCIATION: $591,280 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL TURFGRASS FEDERATION INC: $565,750 over 7y, 100% of budgetGEORGIA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $481,409 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetMINNESOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $462,490 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetCENTRAL LINKS GOLF: $454,962 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetAmerican Junior Golf Association Inc: $450,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetCalifornia Turfgrass and Landscape Foundation: $426,095 over 7y, 59% of budgetVIRGINIA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $425,749 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetGOLF ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN: $413,578 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $388,765 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetMISSISSIPPI GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $386,876 over 7y, 15% of budgetOREGON GOLF ASSOCIATION: $385,849 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetGCSAA FOUNDATION: $349,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetUTAH GOLF ASSOCIATION: $326,380 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetPGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC: $325,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTENNESSEE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $318,855 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetLOUISIANA GOLF ASSOCIATION: $315,433 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetHAWAII STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $303,486 over 7y, 10% of budgetCONNECTICUT STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $300,292 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetNEW JERSEY STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $295,301 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetALABAMA GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $287,706 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetNORTHERN OHIO GOLF ASSOCIATION: $285,517 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetNEBRASKA GOLF ASSOCIATION: $273,274 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetNew York State Golf Association Inc: $272,014 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetINDIANA GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $268,471 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetIOWA GOLF ASSOCIATION: $267,801 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetWISCONSIN STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $263,077 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetMARYLAND STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $250,543 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetKENTUCKY GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $248,740 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetIDAHO GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $237,295 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA GOLF ASSOCIATION LIMITED: $235,892 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION: $234,901 over 7y, 8.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AMATEUR GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $216,776 over 6y, 5.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Ncga FoundationPga Tour IncThe Professional Golf…Wadsworth Golf Charit…American Junior Golf …The Lpga FoundationFoundation for Food a…Amateur Golf AllianceGolf Course Superinte…Pga Foundation IncDick's Sporting Goods…Pga Tour First Tee Fo…
Ncga FoundationCA57.5× affinity25 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United States Golf Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United States Golf Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 169 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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