New York · Nonprofit
METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION
METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,628,983 to it, the largest being THE SANDLER O'NEILL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION ($2,337,814). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $6.6M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Metropolitan Golf Association Foundation does
Mission
To educate the interested public in the game of golf including the rules of golf, traditions and etiquette of the game, and techniques involved in playing the game.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Golfworks-student intern program that provided approximately 241 high school age students exposure to career opportunities in golf, positive role models and real work experience during summer internships. Scholarships are given to students who given to the game of golf and demonstrate a financial need to further their education.educational programs-seminar programs were provided to area golf communities on rules of golf, handicapping, course maintenance, club operation and caddy's-more than 1500 individuals participated.
$3,261,853 spentof which $108,066 as grants$579,231 earned by the program93% of program spendingJunior golf events, junior golf grants to other programs in addition to junior golf clinics, survey programs to support educational programs. Includes caddie-pro-am and doubles championship, adaptive golf program.
$255,290 spent$39,900 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,517,143.
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 2024 to 2025, from $8.2M to $12M (+49%).
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 METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Brian Mahoney
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $103k → $301k.
11 of 39 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: $258k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Metropolitan Golf Association Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 28% · 2019 45% · 2020 29% · 2021 49% · 2022 48% · 2023 43% — 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
55% of METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Metropolitan Golf Association Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION 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 METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION?
- METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,628,983 to it, the largest being THE SANDLER O'NEILL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION ($2,337,814). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $6,628,983 in grants to METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION?
- THE SANDLER O'NEILL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,337,814 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 39 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