Kansas · Nonprofit
GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (Kansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $443,500 to it, the largest being PGA TOUR INC ($215,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $444k
- Net assets
- $10M
What Golf Course Superintendents Association of America does
Mission
Gcsaa is dedicated to serving its members, advancing their profession and improving communities through the enjoyment, growth and vitality of the game of golf.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To provide a variety of services to its 20,500+ members from the field of golf course management. These services include a conference & show, which approximately 10,700 individuals attended, and educational and informational programs, which helped over 16,000 members this year.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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 2020 to 2021, from $20M to $23M (+15%).
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: 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $57k → $50k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $8.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Gcsaa Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA raised.
From the IRS filings of GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA’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
GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Gcsaa Foundation · exempt
- Gcsaa PAC · exempt
- Gcsaa Communications Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: 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 GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA?
- GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (Kansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $443,500 to it, the largest being PGA TOUR INC ($215,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $443,500 in grants to GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA?
- PGA TOUR INC is the largest funder on record, with $215,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA 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 4 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