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GULF COAST JUNIOR GOLF TOUR INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NAPLES/COLLIER
GULF COAST JUNIOR GOLF TOUR INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NAPLES/COLLIER (Florida) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,292,280 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,064,450). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $6.3M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Gulf Coast Junior Golf Tour Inc Dba the First Tee of Naples/Collier does
Mission
To impact the lives of young people by providing learning facilities and educational programs that promote development and life enhancing values (honesty, sportmanship, courtesey, respect, confidence, responsibility, perseverance, judment) through golf.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The first summer camp provides the opportunity for young people to attend our chapter five days a week for six weeks during the summer. During this time the children continue to achieve their goals in life skills as well as playing ability on the golf course. Summer camp is a fun, safe and organized environment where the first tee nine core values and nine healthy habits are applied each day with emphasis on tasks using the core value during camp, at home and in the community.
The first tee - naples/collier elementary school team golf program consists of 12 elementary schools in collier county. Through a tryout process run by our chapter and schools, each elementary school selects a maximum of 10-12 players to represent their elementary school team. If more than 10-12 students qualify, the school forms two teams of 10 players each. The teams are made up of boys and girls. Prior to each match, six players are selected to represent their school in a match; the four lowest scores out of six players are counted as the "team" score for each match. The golf match competition consists of 4-5 holes, 2 times a week for each team for six weeks. Each competion starts at 4:00 pm and consists of two - three teams. An elementary school golf championship tournament is held on the saturday after.
$516,176 spentof which $94,161 as grants$51,613 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe first tee life skills program is designed around teaching young people the game of golf, as well as helping team understand and ultimately develop the first tee nine core values: honesty, integrity, sportmanship, respect, confidence, responsibility, perseverance, courtesy and judgment. The first tee life skills curriculum was developed by experts in the field of positive youth developemnt through sports and is deliverd by caring coaches who have been formally trained by the first tee. At the first tee life skills, golf and life lessons are seamlessly incorporated into each experience . In addition to covering fundamentals of the golf swing and the game, a sample of life skills lessons include:1. Communication: how to make a proper introduction when meeting someone new and how to effectively communicate with others. 2. Self-management: technique for managing thoughts and emotions. 3. Goal setting: setting attainable goals to reach desired drams. 4. Overcoming challanges: strategies to adapt, manage, and overcome challanges.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $516,176.
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 $7.0M to $10.0M (+42%).
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.
85% of GULF COAST JUNIOR GOLF TOUR INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NAPLES/COLLIER’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. 0 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
Cynthia M Darland
Executive director
Board chair
Ann Bain
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $130k → $2.5M.
11 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 GULF COAST JUNIOR GOLF TOUR INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NAPLES/COLLIER’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
GULF COAST JUNIOR GOLF TOUR INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NAPLES/COLLIER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 GULF COAST JUNIOR GOLF TOUR INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NAPLES/COLLIER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 75% · 2019 79% · 2020 40% · 2021 75% · 2022 39% · 2023 46% — 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
67% of GULF COAST JUNIOR GOLF TOUR INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NAPLES/COLLIER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
52% of GULF COAST JUNIOR GOLF TOUR INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NAPLES/COLLIER'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. Of the $3.0M that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
GULF COAST JUNIOR GOLF TOUR INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NAPLES/COLLIER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 GULF COAST JUNIOR GOLF TOUR INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NAPLES/COLLIER
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GULF COAST JUNIOR GOLF TOUR INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NAPLES/COLLIER?
- GULF COAST JUNIOR GOLF TOUR INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NAPLES/COLLIER (Florida) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,292,280 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,064,450). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GULF COAST JUNIOR GOLF TOUR INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NAPLES/COLLIER have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $6,292,280 in grants to GULF COAST JUNIOR GOLF TOUR INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NAPLES/COLLIER, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GULF COAST JUNIOR GOLF TOUR INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NAPLES/COLLIER?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,064,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GULF COAST JUNIOR GOLF TOUR INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NAPLES/COLLIER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 16 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