· Private foundation
Wadsworth Golf Charities Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $147k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $402k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| EVANSTON WILMETTE GOLF COURSE ASSOC | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL LINKS TRUST | $50,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER CHICAGO | $25,000 |
| ILLINOIS PGA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHICAGO DISTRICT GOLF ASSOCIATION F | $25,000 |
| REVELATIONGOLF | $20,000 |
| THE TURN | $20,000 |
| MARYVILLE GOLF ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| US ADAPTIVE GOLF ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| VETERANS GOLFERS ASSOCIATIN | $15,000 |
| DILLON JUNIOR GOLF | $15,000 |
| NORTHERN TEXAS PGA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PLAINFILD NORTH WHITE TIGERS ATH BO | $12,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 18 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k 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
- EWEVANSTON WILMETTE GOLF COURSE ASSOCIATION7× · 2019–2025 · $546k · revenue +191%
- TFTHE FIRST TEE OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $155k · revenue +303%
- CLCLEARVIEW LEGACY FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION PRESERVATION & RESEARCH3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- NCNODAWAY COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -80%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $100k
- FTFIRST TEE - AIKENone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
To connect golf professionals with local youth organiations to promote youth development through golf, as well as offer scholarships to qualifed individuals to develop youth.
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…
To promote and expand community awareness of the game of golf in texas through programs serving junior golfers and the community at large.
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.…
The illinois junior golf association is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing playing opportunities for its members ages 8-18, conducting educational clinics and events, and serving as a junior golf informational…
To provide positive opportunities, enjoyment, and education to juniors in the game of golf. the mission will be accomplished through tournaments, clinics, camps, academies, scholarships, and grants.
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…
American Golf Foundation is dedicated to the enhancement and enrichment of communities by promoting the enjoyment of the game of golf and its ideals through charity, education and community service.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids Golf Foundation of Illinois and the most unlike its peers is Illinois Turfgrass Endowment Attn Luke Cella. 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 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 1% 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.
74 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. 74 of the 128 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 EVANSTON WILMETTE GOLF COURSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI JUNIOR GOLF SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEARVIEW LEGACY FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION PRESERVATION & RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds BARRIER FREE GOLF INC ↗
- Who funds REVELATION GOLF INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO DISTRICT GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NODAWAY COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROVO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds US KIDS GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LAKE FOREST PARKS & REC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CADDIE & LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF SE WI INC ↗
- Who funds TEE-LO GOLF INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST TEE OF TROUP COUNTY GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds THE TURN ↗
- Who funds USAGA UNITED STATES ADAPTIVE GOLF ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GATOR JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CANTIGNY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PARKS FOUNDATION OF HIGHLAND PARK ↗
- Who funds AURORA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Lewis University ↗
- Who funds GLENVIEW PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF VALLEY FIELDS INC ↗
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: Pga Tour Inc · World Golf Foundation Inc · American Junior Golf Foundation Inc · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · United States Golf Association · Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc · Pga Foundation Inc · The Rich Foundation · The Jordan Spieth Family Foundation · Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc · The Knox Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family 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 Wadsworth Golf Charities 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.
- Tampa Metropolitan Area Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 4% 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.
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