Illinois · Nonprofit
KIDS GOLF FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS
KIDS GOLF FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $171,509 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY ($106,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $549k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $172k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Kids Golf Foundation of Illinois does
Mission
The Kids Golf Foundation of Illinois is dedicated to bringing the sport of golf into the lives of young children and providing them with an opportunity for personal growth and career enhancement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The kids golf foundation works with various organizations and individuals throughout the state who are looking to adopt our golf programs. The foundation provides these sites with the training, equipment, resources, and funding opportunities to carry out a successful golf program. The foundation also offers opportunities for sites to get involved in annual events.
$523,823 spent$82,089 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $523,823.
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 2017 to 2018, from $964k to $1.9M (+94%).
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.
68% of KIDS GOLF FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $31k → $40k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 KIDS GOLF FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS’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
KIDS GOLF FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 KIDS GOLF FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 77% · 2021 99% · 2022 95% · 2023 62% — 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
25% of KIDS GOLF FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
66% of KIDS GOLF FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS'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 $58k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114k 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
KIDS GOLF FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like KIDS GOLF FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Rich Harvest Farms · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KIDS GOLF FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS?
- KIDS GOLF FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $171,509 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY ($106,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KIDS GOLF FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $171,509 in grants to KIDS GOLF FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIDS GOLF FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY is the largest funder on record, with $106,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIDS GOLF FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 10 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