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AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GOLF COURSE ARCHITECTS FOUNDATION

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GOLF COURSE ARCHITECTS FOUNDATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$245k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$35k
Net assets
$722k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What American Society of Golf Course Architects Foundation does

Mission

Production/distribution of brochures for the development and environmental benefits of golf courses.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Production/distribution of brochures for the development and environmental benefits of golf courses.

    $14,785 spent
    12% of program spending
  2. Architect boot camp - students are immersed in golf course design exploration, under the tutelage of seasoned golf course architects.

    $39,269 spent
    31% of program spending
  3. Scholarships and social initiatives.

    $26,197 spentof which $10,000 as grants
    21% of program spending
  4. Management and administrative

    $47,331 spent
    37% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $127,582.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($130k) Expenses 100 ($97k) Net assets 100 ($177k)2018 Revenue 66 ($86k) Expenses 87 ($84k) Net assets 96 ($170k)2020 Revenue 105 ($137k) Expenses 26 ($25k) Net assets 170 ($302k)2021 Revenue 63 ($83k) Expenses 41 ($39k) Net assets 206 ($365k)2022 Revenue 63 ($82k) Expenses 24 ($23k) Net assets 221 ($393k)2023 Revenue 68 ($88k) Expenses 72 ($70k) Net assets 256 ($454k)2024 Revenue 222 ($290k) Expenses 207 ($201k) Net assets 332 ($589k)2025 Revenue 188 ($245k) Expenses 156 ($152k) Net assets 407 ($722k)
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Revenue (188)Expenses (156)Net assets (407)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $454k to $604k (+33%).

$179k
$170k
$302k
$365k
$393k
$454k
$604k
$724k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

43% of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GOLF COURSE ARCHITECTS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$33k
’17
$2k
’18
$112k
’20
$43k
’21
$59k
’22
$18k
’23
$89k
’24
$93k
’25
17
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

2022202320242025
Listed9555
Joined·+0+2+1
No longer listed·421
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
2

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $10k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Society of Golf Course Architects). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GOLF COURSE ARCHITECTS FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GOLF COURSE ARCHITECTS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GOLF COURSE ARCHITECTS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GOLF COURSE ARCHITECTS FOUNDATION.

57%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GOLF COURSE ARCHITECTS FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GOLF COURSE ARCHITECTS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin38% · top quartile
Months of reserve16.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GOLF COURSE ARCHITECTS FOUNDATION?
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GOLF COURSE ARCHITECTS FOUNDATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GOLF COURSE ARCHITECTS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $35,000 in grants to AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GOLF COURSE ARCHITECTS FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GOLF COURSE ARCHITECTS FOUNDATION?
COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GOLF COURSE ARCHITECTS FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing