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ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX
ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX (Arizona) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,691,428 to it, the largest being PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC ($907,593). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,723 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,723 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- Thunderbird Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Arizona Cardinals Foundationshared funderslocal
- The Lpga Foundationportfolio 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 11 funders, grant income rose $217k → $851k.
6 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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: $2.6M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Thunderbirds). These are real filings, and they are not money ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX raised.
From the IRS filings of ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 funders by total. 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
ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
67% 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 ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 70% · 2019 23% · 2020 28% · 2021 28% · 2022 52% · 2023 63% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
41% of ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $273k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.
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. Your 44 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Thunderbird Foundationlocalportfolio matchAZ · funds 36 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Arizona Cardinals Foundationshared funderslocalAZ · backs 59 organizations that share your funders · funds 89 organizations near you
- The Lpga Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ncga Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tucson Conquistadores Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Charro Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wadsworth Golf Charities Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pga Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ken Duke and Friends Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Board of Visitorsshared funderslocalAZ · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 69 organizations near you
- Desert Financial Credit Unionshared funderslocalAZ · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 74 organizations near you
- Moreno Family Foundationshared fundersAZ · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
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 ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX: 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 ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX?
- ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX (Arizona) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,691,428 to it, the largest being PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC ($907,593). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $2,691,428 in grants to ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX?
- PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $907,593 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 44funders 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