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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.

$2.2M
Revenue FY2024
44
Funders on record
$2.7M
Grants received
$3.7M
Net assets
22/44 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%

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.

Operating margin22% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($2.1M)2019 Revenue 108 ($1.8M) Expenses 106 ($1.2M) Net assets 84 ($1.8M)2020 Revenue 56 ($916k) Expenses 77 ($853k) Net assets 87 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 86 ($1.4M) Expenses 86 ($944k) Net assets 109 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 68 ($1.1M) Expenses 91 ($1.0M) Net assets 106 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 134 ($2.2M) Expenses 129 ($1.4M) Net assets 147 ($3.1M)2024 Revenue 135 ($2.2M) Expenses 154 ($1.7M) Net assets 175 ($3.7M)
2017201920202021202220232024
Revenue (135)Expenses (154)Net assets (175)Peer revenue range

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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,882 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$527k
17
$590k
19
$63k
20
$458k
21
$98k
22
$756k
23
$492k
24
4.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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.

34%
largest funder
51%
top three
~7
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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.

IL
WI
NY
OH
PA
CT
CO
MO
AZ
TN
GA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
Arizona out of state home

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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

57% of spending goes to programs.

Program 57%Management 21%Fundraising 22%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

AZ

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.

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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