North Carolina · Nonprofit
CAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION
CAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $267,650 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($50,300). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $302k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $268k
- Net assets
- $839k
What Carolinas Golf Foundation does
Mission
The Carolinas Golf Foundation was formed by the carolinas golf association in 1977 to provide scholarships and funding for a variety of carolinas-based golf initiatives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation's scholarship program supports students who are aspiring to become golf superintendents and turfgrass managers in the carolinas. The Carolinas Golf Foundation underwrites grants to turfgrass majors at clemson university and north carolina state university. Individual grants varied in value up to $2,000. Charles e. Lynch jr., cga counsel, noted, "this year's winners are the men and women who will direct tomorrow's turf programs. They will discover solutions for future turfgrass problems. We are pleased to participate in endowing this ongoing program." the Carolinas Golf Foundation first offered scholarship aid to turfgrass majors in 1977. The foundation also started a more expansive scholarship program in 2020 by giving $25,000 to several students who excel in grade, community work and who also have an interest in golf. The Carolinas Golf Foundation has provided more than $1,500,000 over the last 37 years for various projects and scholarships. A partial list of the groups the Carolinas Golf Foundation has provided with financial backing and resources: carolinas pga, challenged golfers network, clemson scholarships, cgcsa round4research, fairway outreach, harris ymca,…
$251,901 spentof which $251,901 as grants$576,048 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe foundation has donated to various junior golf programs including over nine carolinas first-tee programs, several city-wide developmental programs, the south carolina junior golf association, the women's south carolina golf association, youth on course and many other start-up initiatives.
The Carolinas Golf Foundation also concentrates research grant aid at clemson university and north carolina state university through rounds4research.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $251,901.
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.
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 $146k to $444k (+204%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
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 broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $200 → $24k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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: $1.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Carolinas Golf Association). These are real filings, and they are not money CAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
59% 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 FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 39% · 2019 26% · 2020 37% · 2021 83% · 2022 57% · 2023 36% — 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
33% of CAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION'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
52% of CAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $128k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $140k 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.
Organizations like CAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION: 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 FOUNDATION?
- CAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $267,650 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($50,300). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $267,650 in grants to CAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $50,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION 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 21 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