Florida · Public charity
World Golf Foundation Inc
To unite the golf industry around initiatives that promote, enhance the growth of and provide access to the game worldwide, while preserving golf's traditional values and passing them on to others. It accomplishes its mission through: 1. American golf industry coalition unites and activates the golf industry around key strategic…
- $700k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 38
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $485k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 83
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 16
- Total assets, FY2024
- $9.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 39% of the organizations World Golf Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 38 | $485k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $525k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $668k | 81% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $77k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $6.7M | 100% |
| FY2019 | 75 | $3.9M | 20% |
| FY2018 | 83 | $4.8M | 22% |
| FY2017 | 73 | $4.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc | $6,729,125 | 1 | 7% |
| Richmond First Tee | $1,165,726 | 3 | 27% |
| Children's Golf Foundation Inc | $848,274 | 3 | 23% |
| The First Tee of Greater Washington DC Langston Golf Course | $610,000 | 3 | 28% |
| North Texas Jr Golf and Education Foundation | $574,800 | 3 | 12% |
| Tennessee Golf Foundation | $432,000 | 3 | 4% |
| San Francisco First Tee | $418,633 | 3 | n/a |
| Good Golfers Better People of Metro Atlanta Inc | $416,050 | 3 | 8% |
| New Jersey Youth Development Foundation | $399,000 | 3 | 35% |
| Seattle Junior Golf Foundation | $382,300 | 3 | 14% |
Show all 172 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($525k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
World Golf Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 17 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 133 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc · Pga Tour Inc · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · The Lpga Foundation · American Junior Golf Foundation Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Wadsworth Golf Charities Foundation · Round It Up America Inc · Carolinas Golf Foundation · Good Sports Inc · The George W Bush Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc
How this is measured
About World Golf Foundation Inc
- How much does World Golf Foundation Inc give?
- World Golf Foundation Inc reported 38 itemized grants totaling $485,000, out of $700,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 83 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does World Golf Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (70%), Youth Development (19%), Philanthropy (4%).
- Who are World Golf Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc ($6.7M), Richmond First Tee ($1.2M), Children's Golf Foundation Inc ($848k).
- Does World Golf Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as World Golf Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc, Pga Tour Inc, Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation.
- Where is World Golf Foundation Inc based?
- World Golf Foundation Inc is based in FL.
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