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FIRST TEE - TOLEDO

FIRST TEE - TOLEDO (Ohio) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,738,099 to it, the largest being PROMEDICA FOUNDATION ($4,421,649). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$769k
Funders on record
41
Grants received
$5.7M
Net assets
$5.3M
23/41 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What First Tee - Toledo does

Mission

The first tee of lake erie is a non-profit youth development organization. Its purpose is to give young people of all backgrounds an opportunity to develop through golf and character education, life-enhancing values such as honesty, integrity and sportsmanship. The mission of the first tee of lake erie is to impact the lives of young people by providing educational programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values and promote healthy choices through the game of golf.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Summer programming - we currently service the counties of defiance, henry, lucas, ottawa, sandusky, seneca and wood in ohio. Our life-skills experience program (lse) uses golf to teach youth life lessons and leadership skills. Certified coaches use the golf course and practice areas to create a fun, group setting for youth ages 5 to 18 to learn the game of golf, make new friends and most importantly become better people.

    $115,945 spent$81,585 earned by the program
    33% of program spending
  2. After school programming (drive) - we supply the curriculum, the equipment and the training for youth leaders to deliver the programs. First tee drive is designed to introduce kids to golf and the first tee's nine core values - respect, courtesy, responsibility, honesty, sportsmanship, confidence, judgement, perseverance and integrity. Our lesson plans introduce youth to golf through activities that resemble sports they may already be familiar with, like baseball, football, bowling and tennis. Instructors receive an activity guide that includes 18 detailed activity plans, information section explaining teaching methods, safety and class management procedures, instructional cue cards and golf terms.

    $115,945 spent
    33% of program spending
  3. National school program - in 27 elementary schools in the greater toledo area, students are being introduced to golf for the first time thanks to the first tee national school program bringing our curriculum to your child's gym during physical education class. By teaching elemetary students the first tee's nine core values and nine healthy habits we're putting them on the course to a healthy and active lifestyle. The first tee national school program gives gym teachers and physical educators the tools to get started. We provide the training, junior golf lesson plans and equipment.

    $115,945 spent
    33% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $347,835.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($373k) Expenses 100 ($196k) Net assets 100 ($223k)2018 Revenue 75 ($278k) Expenses 175 ($343k) Net assets 71 ($158k)2019 Revenue 91 ($341k) Expenses 148 ($291k) Net assets 93 ($208k)2020 Revenue 570 ($2.1M) Expenses 145 ($284k) Net assets 920 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 658 ($2.5M) Expenses 268 ($525k) Net assets 1785 ($4.0M)2022 Revenue 452 ($1.7M) Expenses 370 ($726k) Net assets 2212 ($4.9M)2023 Revenue 235 ($877k) Expenses 402 ($787k) Net assets 2257 ($5.0M)2024 Revenue 280 ($1.0M) Expenses 390 ($764k) Net assets 2386 ($5.3M)2025 Revenue 206 ($769k) Expenses 385 ($754k) Net assets 2390 ($5.3M)
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Revenue (206)Expenses (385)Net assets (2390)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.0M to $6.4M (+211%).

$225k
$191k
$212k
$2.0M
$6.4M
$6.8M
$6.4M
$6.2M
$6.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

73% of FIRST TEE - TOLEDO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,206 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$177k
’17
−$65k
’18
$50k
’19
$1.8M
’20
$1.9M
’21
$957k
’22
$90k
’23
$277k
’24
$15k
’25
0.9
months of
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.

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Listed141516131210111213
Joined·+1+1+0+2+1+3+1+2
No longer listed·00333201
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $72k → $331k.

10 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 - TOLEDO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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

FIRST TEE - TOLEDO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94% 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 FIRST TEE - TOLEDO.

77%
largest funder
83%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 52% · 2019 46% · 2020 69% · 2021 96% · 2022 66% · 2023 60% — 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

29% of FIRST TEE - TOLEDO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

93% of FIRST TEE - TOLEDO's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

IL
MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
NC
GA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $303k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FIRST TEE - TOLEDO has grown faster than half of the 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like FIRST TEE - TOLEDO

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

46% of spending goes to programs.

Program 46%Management 47%Fundraising 7%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds FIRST TEE - TOLEDO?
FIRST TEE - TOLEDO (Ohio) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,738,099 to it, the largest being PROMEDICA FOUNDATION ($4,421,649). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FIRST TEE - TOLEDO have?
IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $5,738,099 in grants to FIRST TEE - TOLEDO, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FIRST TEE - TOLEDO?
PROMEDICA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,421,649 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FIRST TEE - TOLEDO find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 41 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing