Minnesota · Nonprofit
APPLETON GOLF CLUB
APPLETON GOLF CLUB (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,600 to it, the largest being THE APPLETON PROJECT ($21,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Robert Sonsteng Foundationlocal
- Golf Course Superintendents Association of Americaportfolio match
- Trans-Mississippi Turf Scholarshipportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of APPLETON GOLF CLUB’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
APPLETON GOLF CLUB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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
89% 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 APPLETON GOLF CLUB.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 APPLETON GOLF CLUB's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Robert Sonsteng FoundationlocalMN · funds 7 organizations near you
- Golf Course Superintendents Association of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trans-Mississippi Turf Scholarshipportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States Golf Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ncga Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William M & Donna J Hoaglin Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fair Ways Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- US Wind Force Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary Gk Fox Foundation 15-5006007portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fort Atkinson Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wadsworth Golf Charities Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gibson Community Hospital Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like APPLETON GOLF CLUB
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for APPLETON GOLF CLUB: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds APPLETON GOLF CLUB?
- APPLETON GOLF CLUB (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,600 to it, the largest being THE APPLETON PROJECT ($21,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does APPLETON GOLF CLUB have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $23,600 in grants to APPLETON GOLF CLUB, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of APPLETON GOLF CLUB?
- THE APPLETON PROJECT is the largest funder on record, with $21,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like APPLETON GOLF CLUB find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing