Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION
COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION (Colorado) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,228,821 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION ($604,576). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $9.2M
What Colorado Golf Association does
Mission
The mission of the Colorado Golf Association, inc. ("association") is to make golf and all it offers available to everyone.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Golf programs: cga golf programs (see schedule o) the solich caddie & leadership academy, llc (see schedule o) the broadmoor caddie & leadership academy (see schedule o)
$1,856,631 spentof which $84,000 as grants41% of program spendingCga conducted state championships, usga qualifiers, and assisted at numerous other tournaments and championships for golf entrants. Cga conducted 25 state amateur golf championships and corresponding qualifiers as well as 20 usga qualifiers. The cga also supports the colorado open and women's colorado open events at green valley ranch gc, the rocky mountain open, and chsaa championships. The cga conducts the state junior championships and state travel teams were identified to compete in junior americas cup and pacific coast am competitions.
$1,534,817 spent$651,458 earned by the program34% of program spendingCga performs course ratings and measurements and monitors member clubs' compliance with usga handicap certification and licensing requirements in colorado and wyoming. In 2025, cga performed 42 ratings, measured courses, conducted course rating trainings and calibration seminars, and world handicap system (whs) rules of handicapping/golf genius seminars.
$568,605 spent12% of program spendingCommunications
$602,760 spent13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,562,813.
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 $7.7M to $8.9M (+16%).
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 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION’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 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
Edward Mate
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $73k → $109k.
4 of 18 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: $3.6M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Colorado Golf Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION’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
COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 100% · 2019 77% · 2020 65% · 2021 74% · 2022 81% · 2023 69% — 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
50% of COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $187k 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
COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin 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 COLORADO 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% 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
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Solich Caddie & Leadership Academy · disregarded
- Ccre LLC · disregarded
- Broadmoor Caddie & Leadership Acade · disregarded
- Ccgo LLC · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION?
- COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION (Colorado) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,228,821 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION ($604,576). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,228,821 in grants to COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION?
- UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $604,576 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 18 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