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· 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.

$700k
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$25k
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$15MYouth Development$4.2MPhilanthropy$967kEducation$928kHuman Services$365kArts & Culture$136kHealth$80k
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 38 grants below total $485,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $700,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $215,000 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.
$10,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$9.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Latina Golfers Association Foundation$25,000
Women in Golf Foundation Inc$25,000
Par Excellence Youth Development$25,000
I AM a Golfer Foundation$25,000
Greenway Foundation Inc$25,000
A Perfect Swing Foundation$25,000
Black College Golf Coaches Association Foundation$25,000
Excel Youth Academy Inc$10,000
Hollywood Golf Institute$10,000
Students Athletes Values Education Inc$10,000
Southern Nevada Junior Golf Association$10,000
Upstate-Carolina Adaptive Golf$10,000
Midnight Golf Program$10,000
Jackson Park Golf Association$10,000
LEO Foundation Inc$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $649k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Golf Fore Life Skills: $108k → 10%Upstate-Carolina Adaptive Golf: $25k → 10%Future Successors: $10k → 13%Peninsula Metro YMCA: $17k → 17%Golf Fore Life Skills: $108k → 10%Upstate-Carolina Adaptive Golf: $25k → 10%Next 18 Inc: $10k → 17%Peninsula Metro YMCA: $17k → 17%Golf Fore Life Skills: $105k → 10%Upstate-Carolina Adaptive Golf: $10k → 10%Next 18 Inc: $10k → 17%Inland Golf Academy: $10k → 11%Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA: $154k → 13%Next 18 Inc: $10k → 17%Inland Golf Academy: $10k → 11%Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA Inc: $11k → 13%Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA Inc: $10k → 13%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

WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 103 repeat orgs$8.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

103 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 75 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

103
61

Total granted

$13M
$8.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+29%

Still filing today

87%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & 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

  • RF
    RICHMOND FIRST TEE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.2M · revenue +197% · 27% of their budget
  • CG
    CHILDREN'S GOLF FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $848k · revenue +71%
  • TF
    THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON DC LANGSTON GOLF COURSE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $610k · revenue +178% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • PT
    PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $6.7M · revenue -64%
  • NV
    Nine Values Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $475k
  • WG
    WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $227k · revenue -111%
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
Indianapolis Junior Golf Foundation
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2
The Watson Youth Golf Foundation
Recreation & Sports
3
Coachella Valley Youth Golf Foundation

To impact the lives of young people by providing educational programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values and promote healthy choices through the game of golf.

Recreation & Sports
4
Greater Topeka Youth Foundation Inc

To impact the lives of young people in shawnee & jackson counties by providing learning opportunities and educational programs that promote character development and life-enhancing values through the game of golf.

Youth Development
5
First Tee of Miami-Dade Foundation Inc

Its mission is to impact the lives of young people around the world by creating affordable and accessible golf facilities to primarily serve those who have not previously had exposure to the game and its positive values. our goal is to…

Youth Development
6
All Abilities Golf Academy
Recreation & Sports
7
Detroit Youth Golf

First tee is a youth development organization that enables kids to build the strength of character that empowers them through a lifetime of new challenges. by seamlessly integrating the game of golf with a life skills curriculum. we're…

Youth Development
8
Sl Gee Ll Foundation Inc

to provide a pipeline to academic excell

Recreation & Sports
9
Wpga Junior Foundation Inc

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.

Recreation & Sports
10
First Tee - Toledo

The first tee of lake erie is a non-profit youth development organization. its purpose is to give young people of all backgrounds an opportunity to develop through golf and character education, life-enhancing values such as honesty,…

Recreation & Sports
11
Mid-South Junior Golf Association

The organization teaches valuable lessons to over 300 children each year including the importance of maintaining a positive attitude, making positive decisions, and defining and setting goals for everyday life by using life skills…

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12
Piney Woods Golf Youth and Development Foundation

The first tee of the piney woods was started in 2005. the organization's principal activity is to instruct area youth in the principles, ethics, and skills of golf and to develop life skills. the goal is to give young people from all…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Golf of Nwa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Golf My Future Mygame. 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

199 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.

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

17
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
91
Early backer (in before they grew)
187/199
Grantees still filing
145/199
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC: $6,729,125 · Recreation & SportsPGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INCTEE OFF FORE LIFE INC: $869,375 · Recreation & SportsTEE OFF FORE LIFE INCTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON DC LANGSTON GOLF COURSE: $610,000 · Recreation & Sports+78 more: $6,030,785 · Recreation & Sports+78 moreCHILDREN'S GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $848,274 · OtherCHILDREN'S GOLF …Nine Values Foundation: $474,862 · OtherNine Values Foun…Detroit Youth Golf Program L3C: $330,300 · OtherDetroit Youth Go…HAWAII YOUTH GOLF ASSOCIATION: $267,940 · OtherHAWAII YOUTH GOL…Greater Philadelphia Scholastic Golf Assoc: $175,166 · OtherGreater Philadel…+38 more: $1,082,238 · Other+38 moreRICHMOND FIRST TEE: $1,165,726 · Youth DevelopmentRICHMOND …THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $77,500 · Youth Development+20 more: $626,027 · Youth Development+20 moreNORTH TEXAS JR GOLF AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $574,800 · EducationCR JRS CHIP: $191,300 · EducationGreater Cleveland Junior Golf: $47,500 · Education+8 more: $122,500 · EducationGOLF FORE LIFE SKILLS THE FIRST TEE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $320,000 · Human ServicesTAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $175,300 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesUPSTATE CAROLINA ADAPTIVE GOLF: $60,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULAS: $34,000 · Human ServicesNEXT 18 INC: $30,000 · Human Services+2 more: $30,000 · Human ServicesSAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE: $418,633 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $68,500 · PhilanthropyEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC: $39,500 · PhilanthropyBEYOND THE FAIRWAYS FOUNDATION: $36,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $39,500 · PhilanthropyTENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION: $432,000 · Arts & CultureGOLF MY FUTURE MYGAME: $77,500 · Arts & CultureFORE AUGUSTA FOUNDATION INC: $58,500 · Arts & Culture
Recreation & Sports$14,239,285Other$3,178,780Youth Development$1,869,253Education$936,100Human Services$714,300Philanthropy$602,133Arts & Culture$568,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC: $6,729,125 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetRICHMOND FIRST TEE: $1,165,726 over 3y, 27% of budgetTEE OFF FORE LIFE INC: $869,375 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $848,274 over 3y, 23% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON DC LANGSTON GOLF COURSE: $610,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetNORTH TEXAS JR GOLF AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $574,800 over 3y, 12% of budgetTENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION: $432,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetGood Golfers Better People of Metro Atlanta Inc: $416,050 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetNEW JERSEY YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $399,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetSEATTLE JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION: $382,300 over 3y, 14% of budgetJR METRO GOLF INC: $377,500 over 3y, 51% of budgetJERSEY SHORE JUNIOR GOLF INC: $375,000 over 3y, 55% of budgetHAWAII YOUTH GOLF ASSOCIATION: $267,940 over 3y, 31% of budgetGOLF FORE FUN INC: $247,977 over 3y, 19% of budgetHouston Golf Association Inc: $227,750 over 3y, 25% of budgetWORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $227,495 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION: $211,550 over 3y, 13% of budgetFUTURE CITIZENS FOUNDATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF MONTEREY COUNTY: $211,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetCR JRS CHIP: $191,300 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetKIDS BUILDING CHARACTER INC: $182,500 over 3y, 18% of budgetTAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $175,300 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MORTON FOUNDATION: $171,666 over 1y, 23% of budgetFORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $170,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC: $158,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetYOUTH DEVELOPMENT CORP OF SW OHIO: $117,829 over 2y, 17% of budgetQUAD CITIES LIFE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT: $115,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetJUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $105,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC: $94,133 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetTRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE: $90,300 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetI Am A Golfer Foundation: $85,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetTHE CAROL S PETREA YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $82,500 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $77,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetGOLF MY FUTURE MYGAME: $77,500 over 4y, 26% of budgetTWIN CITIES JUNIOR GOLF PROGRAM: $70,050 over 3y, 11% of budgetARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX: $69,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCOLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $68,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWOMEN IN GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 3y, 10.0% of budgetRISING LEADERS OF NORTH FLORIDA INC: $64,300 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetFIRST TEE OF LOS ANGELES: $62,799 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetFairways to Leadership Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetUPSTATE CAROLINA ADAPTIVE GOLF: $60,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE PINKNEY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO INC: $59,889 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetFORE AUGUSTA FOUNDATION INC: $58,500 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetYOUTH DRIVING FOR VALUES: $57,050 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT GOLF FOUNDATION INC THE FIRST TEE OF CONNECTICUT: $55,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetSAN JUAN COUNTY LIFE SKILLS FOUNDAT: $53,888 over 3y, 28% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS COURSE INC: $52,300 over 3y, 2.8% 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.

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.

Pga Tour First Tee Fo…Pga Tour IncDick's Sporting Goods…The Lpga FoundationAmerican Junior Golf …GenYOUTH IncorporatedWadsworth Golf Charit…Round It Up America I…Carolinas Golf Founda…Good Sports IncThe George W Bush Fou…Project Lead the Way …
Pga Tour First Tee Foundation IncFL251.9× affinity133 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 World Golf Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from World Golf Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Tampa Metropolitan Area Young Men's Christian Association Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Urban Youth Golf Program Assoc: 0% of income from government
  • Children's Golf Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 175 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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