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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). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Arizona Golf and Life Skills Inc Dba First Tee - Phoenix does
Mission
The corporation's mission is to impact the lives of children and youth by teaching life-skills and character through the game of golf, especially to those who would not otherwise be finacially able to play the game of golf; including, but not limited to the following: (I) providing such children with highly subsidized and free golf instruction and golf equipment, (ii) providing free opportunities to such children for participation in golf tournaments, on course play and competitions, and, (iii) supporting, establishing, holding and/or operating golf tournaments, competitions, lessons, and clinics which provide mentorship, golf instruction, and life lessons for such children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
First tee - phoenix was created for the purpose of providing affordable access to the game of golf and teaching life skills to young people in maricopa county from all walks of life, particularly those who otherwise might not have an opportunity to play. First tee - phoenix impact youth in more than 220 schools and through regular programming at 17 golf facilities across the valley. Curriculum is designed to teach valuable life skills and values through creative activities and quality instruction. Incorporating lessons learned through golf, participants learn resonsibility, courtesy, honesty, and integrity that they can take to all aspects of their lives.
$1,283,540 spentof which $96,442 as grants$287,213 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,283,540.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.4M to $3.3M (+35%).
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.
81% 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. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Erin Mcdonough
Executive director
Board chair
Curt Knapp
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
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; 52% 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 68% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 13 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 states 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.
Against its field
ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX is better cushioned than half of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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
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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). 23 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, 23 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 44 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