North Carolina · Nonprofit
CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION
CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,612,138 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION ($781,143). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.2M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Carolinas Golf Association does
Mission
The cga is a non-profit service organization that was formed in 1909 to conduct championships and tournaments for amateur golfers in north and south carolina, administer the usga handicap system in the carolinas, and support its membership of more than 200,000 golfers in the cga's 700 plus member clubs and associations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The cga conducts 35 major championships, including the 100+ year-old carolinas amateur, as well as four team matches and qualifying events for usga championships. These serve to identify the best players in the carolinas; but the cga tournament schedule reaches golfers of all abilities. The cga also conducts one-day handicap tournaments for players of all skill levels, one-day senior four-ball tournaments, and one-day events for junior and women golfers. These fun events attract more than 14,000 entries a year.
$2,622,856 spent$3,210,025 earned by the program33% of program spending"carolinas golf" magazine is mailed quarterly free of charge to members of cga member clubs. Clubs are encouraged to send membership rosters (and annual membership additions) to the cga to get issues of "carolinas golf" to members.
$269,421 spent$31,533 earned by the program3% of program spendingThe cga administers the usga handicap system in the carolinas by offering an "atclub" computerized system with a top tournament management package. The cga pioneered computerized handicaps in 1963 and continues to offer premier services at a low cost to members. The cga trains and educates its members on policies and procedures regarding the usga handicapping system.
$1,846,284 spent$5,463,141 earned by the program23% of program spendingThe organization provides turfgrass advisory services to member clubs throughout the carolinas and conducts meetings and seminars to educate interested parties in a variety of golf topics
$3,229,606 spentof which $43,003 as grants$28,808 earned by the program41% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,968,167.
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 2023 to 2024, from $8.1M to $9.9M (+22%).
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% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION’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. 0 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.
Chief executive
Joseph Andy Priest
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $50k → $150k.
7 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $5k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Carolinas Golf Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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
CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 87% · 2019 36% · 2020 36% · 2021 44% · 2022 69% · 2023 96% — 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
60% of CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $147k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION has grown faster 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 CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Carolinas Golf Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION: 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 CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION?
- CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,612,138 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION ($781,143). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,612,138 in grants to CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION?
- UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $781,143 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 14 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