Arkansas · Nonprofit
FIRST TEE OF FORT SMITH ARKANSAS INC
FIRST TEE OF FORT SMITH ARKANSAS INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($13). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2018
- $192k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $13
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What First Tee of Fort Smith Arkansas Inc does
Mission
To impact the lives of young people by providing learning facilities and educational programs that promote character development and life-enhancing values through the game of golf.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
Program
Golf facility, golf training and related activities. First tee is a youth development program that is year round. We service over 30,000 kids in the surrounding area by providing the first tee program in 21 public schools. We impact these kids by teaching the basic golf skill and 9 core values in life such as; honesty, integrity, sportsmanship, responsibility, perseverance, judgment, confidence, respect and courtesy. First tee also provides a disablility and special needs program that has over 250 participants.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 $1.2M to $1.2M (−2%).
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: 2017 9% · 2018 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8 → $5.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FIRST TEE OF FORT SMITH ARKANSAS INC’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.
Where its funders are
100% of FIRST TEE OF FORT SMITH ARKANSAS INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 FIRST TEE OF FORT SMITH ARKANSAS 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 Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FIRST TEE OF FORT SMITH ARKANSAS INC?
- FIRST TEE OF FORT SMITH ARKANSAS INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($13). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FIRST TEE OF FORT SMITH ARKANSAS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $13 in grants to FIRST TEE OF FORT SMITH ARKANSAS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST TEE OF FORT SMITH ARKANSAS INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $13 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST TEE OF FORT SMITH ARKANSAS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 1 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