Georgia · Nonprofit
Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc
Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,051,449 to it, the largest being STUART & EULENE MURRAY FOUNDATION ($3,000,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.4M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc does
Mission
The bobby jones golf course foundation is a non-profit organization committed to growing the game of golf through access to improved public golf and professional golf instruction and programming. Our new facility which opened in 2018, includes: -the renovation of the current 18 holes of 5,800 yards into a 9 hole reversible course, designed by bob cupp to provide 18 unique holes of up to 7,500 yards with a wide range of tees for juniors through elite players. -a new two-ended, driving range and a state-of-the-art instructional center. -programming and instruction by experienced golf professionals designed to make the game more enjoyable. -9-hole "wee links" of 50-70 yard holes designed by bob cupp for juniors. -a new practice facility for georgia state university women's and men's golf teams. Benefits of the project: -create a course and facility that honors the memory and legacy of bobby jones. -turn an obsolete, dangerous, 18-hole, 5,800 yard public course into a reversible, 9 hole ge
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The foundation is currently operating the renovated golf course, which opened in November 2018, under a management contract with a professional golf course management company. We offer programs that are generally found at public golf courses such as junior clinics, summer camps, clinics and tournaments for adaptive golfers and free lessons for underprivileged youth. The course is also available for tournaments to benefit other charitable organizations. The Foundation continues to develop new programs on the renovated course that could not be offered on the property prior to renovation.
$6,903,493 spent$4,626,845 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,903,493.
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 2017 to 2018, from $20M to $30M (+46%).
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: 2020 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Chuck Palmer
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $1.5M → $279k.
9 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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: $400k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Georgia State Golf Association). These are real filings, and they are not money Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 32% · 2019 62% · 2020 47% · 2021 35% · 2022 52% · 2023 47% — diversifying over time.
“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
19% of Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
95% of Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M 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
Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc's revenue fell 51% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
45%
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 Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc?
- Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,051,449 to it, the largest being STUART & EULENE MURRAY FOUNDATION ($3,000,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $11,051,449 in grants to Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc?
- STUART & EULENE MURRAY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 40 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