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Ncga Foundation

Youth on course provides a continuum of services including subsidized course access, internships for high school/college students, college scholarships and an alumni program.

$908k
Granted FY2022
20
Grants FY2022
19
States reached
$101k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2022.

Recreation & Sports$1.8MPhilanthropy$53kCrime & Legal$17k
02FY2022 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 20 grants below total $499,644 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $907,811 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $408,167 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 · FY2022

  • Under $10k6 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $224k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $234k
$18,736
Median grant
19
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION$100,648
VIRGINIA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION$77,620
MASS GOLF$55,561
GOLF ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION$36,602
ALABAMA GOLF ASSOCIATION$28,532
JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA$25,445
UTAH GOLF FOUNDATION$25,385
NEW JERSEY STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION$21,714
GEORGIA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION$21,369
MINNESOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION$18,736
CENTRAL LINKS GOLF$13,815
WISCONSIN STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION$11,000
MARYLAND STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION$10,948
WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION$10,000
OREGON GOLF ASSOCIATION$9,844
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA: $46k → 11%DELAWARE STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $13k → 10%MASS GOLF: $63k → 11%MINNESOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION: $22k → 11%MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION: $39k → 12%GOLF ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $40k → 8%ALABAMA GOLF ASSOCIATION: $30k → 16%GEORGIA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $21k → 5%WISCONSIN STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $36k → 17%OREGON JUNIOR GOLF: $34k → 14%CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION: $115k → 10%UTAH GOLF FOUNDATION: $29k → 8%GEORGIA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $41k → 8%JUNIOR GOLF ALLIANCE OF COLORADO: $22k → 8%NEW JERSEY STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $22k → 10%VIRGINIA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $78k → 7%MARYLAND STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $13k → 11%JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA: $25k → 11%MASS GOLF: $56k → 11%MINNESOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION: $19k → 11%NCGA IC -MONTEREY PENINSULA FDN: $20k → 12%GOLF ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $37k → 8%ALABAMA GOLF ASSOCIATION: $29k → 16%CENTRAL LINKS GOLF: $17k → 5%WISCONSIN STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $32k → 17%OREGON GOLF ASSOCIATION: $18k → 14%CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION: $101k → 10%UTAH GOLF FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%GEORGIA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $31k → 8%JUNIOR GOLF ALLIANCE OF COLORADO: $13k → 8%VIRGINIA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $61k → 7%JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA: $13k → 11%MASS GOLF: $27k → 11%MGA FOUNDATION: $14k → 11%MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%GOLF ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%ALABAMA GOLF ASSOCIATION: $22k → 16%CENTRAL LINKS GOLF: $17k → 5%WISCONSIN STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $21k → 17%CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION: $34k → 10%UTAH GOLF FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%GEORGIA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $26k → 8%MINNESOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION: $14k → 11%GOLF ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $14k → 8%CENTRAL LINKS GOLF: $14k → 5%CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION: $34k → 10%UTAH GOLF FOUNDATION: $13k → 8%GEORGIA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $19k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 22 repeat orgs$175k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
9

Total granted

$1.7M
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+47%

Still filing today

91%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Recreation & SportsPhilanthropyArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalEducationOther

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

  • CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $284k · revenue +97%
  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTS GOLF ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $154k · revenue +90%
  • VS
    VIRGINIA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $138k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • OJ
    OREGON JUNIOR GOLF FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $34k · revenue +130%
  • EM
    Explore Minnesota Golf Alliance
    one grant, 2019 · $22k · revenue -27%
  • WS
    WISCONSIN STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $21k · revenue +6%

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

04Your field

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.

1
International Association of Golf Administrators Inc

The association has been formed and exists for the purpose of promoting and conserving the best interests and the true spirit of the game of golf as embodied in its ancient and honorable traditions.

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2
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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3
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
4
New York State Golf Association Inc

The New York State Golf Association's mission is to promote & conserve the traditions of golf throughout NY State.

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5
Mississippi Golf Association Inc

To promote and conserve the best interest and true spirit of the game of golf in mississippi.

Recreation & Sports
6
Montana State Golf Association

The montana state golf association (msga) is the allied golf association governing amateur golf in montana. the msga administers the world handicap system for clubs in montana and provides course rating evaluations and handicap review for…

Recreation & Sports
7
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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8
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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9
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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10
Georgia Section Pga of America Inc

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…

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11
South Carolina Junior Golf Association

To promote, preserve, and serve the game of junior golf

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12
Columbus District Golf Association

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

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pga Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Game Givers. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%37%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%42%35–55yr16%8%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,516

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.

04the grantee network

46 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
34/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS GOLF ASSOCIATION INC — $153,967 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GOLF ASSOCIATION INCJUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA INC — $103,834 · OtherJUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA INCUTAH GOLF FOUNDATION — $99,248 · OtherUTAH GOLF FOUNDATIONWISCONSIN STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION INC — $78,876 · OtherWISCONSIN STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION INCCENTRAL LINKS GOLF — $76,997 · OtherCENTRAL LINKS GOLFMINNESOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION INC — $57,092 · OtherMINNESOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION INCJUNIOR GOLF ALLIANCE OF COLORADO — $41,221 · OtherOREGON GOLF ASSOCIATION — $34,758 · OtherOREGON JUNIOR GOLF FUND INC — $33,930 · Other+10 more — $135,424 · Other+10 moreCAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION — $283,883 · Recreation & SportsCAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATIONVIRGINIA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION — $138,423 · Recreation & SportsVIRGINIA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATIONGEORGIA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION — $117,268 · Recreation & SportsGEORGIA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATIONALABAMA GOLF ASSOCIATION INC — $80,908 · Recreation & SportsALABAMA GOLF ASSOCIATION INCWORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 · Recreation & SportsWORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INCMARYLAND STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION — $41,845 · Recreation & SportsMARYLAND STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION+2 more — $30,097 · Recreation & SportsGOLF ASSOC OF MICH FOUNDATION INC — $121,807 · EducationMONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION — $53,000 · PhilanthropyWISCONSIN STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC — $20,830 · PhilanthropySAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE — $6,241 · PhilanthropyMETROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $34,918 · Arts & CultureExplore Minnesota Golf Alliance — $22,153 · Community ImprovementCenters for Equity and Success Inc — $17,436 · Crime & Legal
Other$815,347Recreation & Sports$737,424Education$121,807Philanthropy$80,071Arts & Culture$34,918Community Improvement$22,153Crime & Legal$17,436

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION — $283,883 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS GOLF ASSOCIATION INC — $153,967 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetVIRGINIA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION — $138,423 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetGOLF ASSOC OF MICH FOUNDATION INC — $121,807 over 7y, 12% of budgetGEORGIA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION — $117,268 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetJUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA INC — $103,834 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetUTAH GOLF FOUNDATION — $99,248 over 7y, 12% of budgetALABAMA GOLF ASSOCIATION INC — $80,908 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetWISCONSIN STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION INC — $78,876 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCENTRAL LINKS GOLF — $76,997 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetMINNESOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION INC — $57,092 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION — $53,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMARYLAND STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION — $41,845 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetJUNIOR GOLF ALLIANCE OF COLORADO — $41,221 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $34,918 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetOREGON GOLF ASSOCIATION — $34,758 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetOREGON JUNIOR GOLF FUND INC — $33,930 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetExplore Minnesota Golf Alliance — $22,153 over 1y, 21% of budgetNEW JERSEY STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION — $21,714 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWISCONSIN STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC — $20,830 over 1y, 10% of budgetIOWA GOLF ASSOCIATION — $20,060 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA GOLF ASSOCIATION — $18,726 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCenters for Equity and Success Inc — $17,436 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGOLF ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA — $14,989 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDELAWARE STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION — $12,664 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION — $7,658 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN — $7,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE — $6,241 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TEXAS GOLF ASSOCIATION — $5,068 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

United States Golf As…Pga Tour IncPga Tour First Tee Fo…World Golf Foundation…Dick's Sporting Goods…Pga Foundation IncAmerican Junior Golf …The Ayco Charitable F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Baird Foundation Inc
United States Golf AssociationNJ57.5× affinity25 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Golf Association · Pga Tour Inc · Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc · World Golf Foundation Inc · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Pga Foundation Inc · American Junior Golf Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Baird 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 Ncga 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ncga Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ncga Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $4.1M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

    Source object · view filing

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