Kansas · Nonprofit
GCSAA FOUNDATION
GCSAA FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,723,756 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,055,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Gcsaa Foundation does
Mission
Secure funding and support to strengthen advocacy, education, and research that advances the work of golf course management professionals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provide grants for the purpose of the development of new continuing education with an environmental focus. Scholarships are awarded annually to students pursuing careers in the golf course industry, future turfgrass researchers and educators, and children and grandchildren of gcsaa members. All scholarships are awarded according to a list of criteria, including academic achievement, extracurricular and community involvement, leadership and outside employment. Scholarship applications are evaluated by the scholarship committee, except in the case of scholarships to children and grandchildren of gcsaa members, which are evaluated by an independent committee of three educators.
$596,840 spentof which $570,636 as grants39% of program spendingCollect and publish data on every aspect of golf course management from an environmental perspective that provides a comprehensive analysis of golf course land use and environmental stewardship efforts. The foundation grants awards for applied agronomic and environmental research to provide information to improve the quality of golf courses, while minimizing the impact on the environment.
$453,101 spentof which $440,000 as grants30% of program spendingProvides online access to more than 190 best management practices, case studies, and environmental profiles. These prove the golf course's important role in the environment & sustainability efforts. With the ever increasing regulatory and legislative pressures on land use, water use, energy consumption, and nutrient and pesticide use; this funding allows gcsaa to be a voice for the superintendent profession and the golf industry by telling golf's story on a national level. These stories highlight the key economic, environmental and social/recreational benefits of golf.
$458,101 spentof which $445,000 as grants30% of program spendingProvide financial assistance to gcsaa members who have suffered personal loss or hardship due to natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding or wildfires.
$5,072 spentof which $5,072 as grants0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,513,114.
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 2018 to 2019, from $9.1M to $11M (+25%).
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.
51% of GCSAA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
J Rhett Evans
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $33k → $68k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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: $360k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Golf Course Superintendents Association of America). These are real filings, and they are not money GCSAA FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of GCSAA 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
GCSAA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% 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
60% 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 GCSAA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 99% · 2021 64% · 2022 53% · 2023 76% — 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
50% of GCSAA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
GCSAA FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
GCSAA FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like GCSAA 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 40 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Golf Course Superintendent Association · exempt
- Gcsaa PAC · exempt
- Gcsaa Communications Inc · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GCSAA 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 GCSAA FOUNDATION?
- GCSAA FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,723,756 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,055,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GCSAA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,723,756 in grants to GCSAA FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GCSAA FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,055,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GCSAA FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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